The Michael Scott Paper Company Golf Association

Major news in a sport I don’t care that much about, but have been unable to ignore because the lawsuits are too interesting. This is all fine and probably makes sense, but there are some pretty funny elements to it when you look at how all of this will eventually get sorted out. Still to […]

Bad Ethics, Bad Products

AI bots make stuff up. This is not new; in fact, it’s so commonplace that people aren’t even phased by it. Rather than question the value of the bullshit robot, we’ve started to doubt the existence of non-bullshit. Unfortunately, this problem isn’t going away. And while there’s a weird consumer religion out there that machine […]

Actually, Top Gun: Maverick is Bad

I am not a shitposter, I swear. I don’t even really have time to construct inflammatory takes, let alone take abuse for them and somehow turn that into engagement or personal brand or whatever it is people do with internet rage. So when I saw the Top Gun sequel, I kept things to myself. I […]

The Unstoppable Bullshit Robot

Just like you can spend months rolling out critical back-end improvements to a software application to no reaction whatsoever, only to set off a riot when you change the color of a button, “AI” is having a moment (again) right now because the folks at OpenAI did an awesome job plugging their work into something […]

Elon’s Twitter Will Fail

This is one of those topics that doesn’t seem like it needs me to add to it, as most of the smart, correct things have already been said. Still, I’ve read some odd things from smart people who are missing some of the elephants in the room that make it pretty clear Elon Musk will […]