Work is Weird, Weird is Hard

One cool thing about life, or at least my life, is that as I’ve gotten older and moved around, I’ve gotten to know some people who do jobs that I’ve always been aware of, but actually know very little about. The challenge with these kinds of jobs (and there are a lot of them) is […]

The Nothing App

I’m 43 years old, and I’ve been consuming technology products and working in tech basically my entire life, minus a year and a half where I worked for a catalog that sold garden gnomes. Nobody’s perfect. But the “tech industry”, if that’s still a thing we can demarcate, has some real existential problems right now, […]

Wholly Lawless

This is an insane sentence to read in a story on a federal court ruling: There is little to no evidence to support a “vague, uncorroborated” allegation that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was once in the MS-13 street gang, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis wrote. And in any case, she said, an immigration judge had expressly barred the […]

Intentionally Spread Thin

OpenAI is shoving more stuff out the door that seems very early, very ambitious, and very janky. OpenAI is releasing a “research preview” of an AI agent called Operator that can “go to the web to perform tasks for you,” according to a blog post. “Using its own browser, it can look at a webpage […]

The Employees You Want

Max Read has a secondary potential motivation (other than sucking up to an incoming Presidential administration) for Mark Zuckerberg suddenly reinventing himself as the least intimidating, least plausible right-wing tough-guy reactionary ever conceived: “News on Friday that Meta is ending its D.E.I. program should be seen in this context–as not just another way to cozy […]

Three Pointers & The Angry Mob

John Hollinger is the first big, respected basketball name I’ve seen take a counterpunch at the puzzling (and omnipresent) narrative that the NBA is in some kind of death spiral. Declining TV ratings. Endless fourth quarters thanks to timeouts, replays and clock stoppages. One-sided blowouts. A new December tournament format struggling to compete with the […]