Hi. Not really sure how to promote this story...but it is about AI and the overwhelming feeling of it bleeding into everything with no concrete articulation for what a good version of that future looks like. It's about feeling like every 8th person is living on another planet.…
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Charlie Warzel
Writer. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip. I have a podcast so please like and subscribe.
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Too Much Is Happening Too Fast theatlantic.com
The Feeling of Control Slipping Away theatlantic.com
The DOGE Bros Want Another Shot theatlantic.com
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Why Everyone Hates AI Data Centers theatlantic.com
How Much of Data-Center Activism Is Really AI Slop? theatlantic.com
The New (And Slightly Smelly) Center of the AI Boom theatlantic.com
How to Think About AI Before It’s Too Late theatlantic.com
How to Think About AI Before It’s Too Late theatlantic.com
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What’s the AI Endgame? theatlantic.com
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Got a theory that we are all living through a crisis of agency, at least online. Bots, algorithms, clip armies, & the flood of AI stuff have scrambled notions of popularity, turned everything into a ‘psyop’. AI tools/ agents are reversing the fundamental human, collaborative p…
So the two DOGE staffers who used ChatGPT to cut all those grants and programs and who struggled to define DEI in that viral deposition footage have a new startup: DOGE for the public sector. I wrote about them and the myth of the “builder” as a disguise for something more ins…
GOOD MORNING. IT'S @doctorow.pluralistic.net DAY ON THE PODCAST. The case for the AI Bubble, accountability sinks, why bosses love bots, his new book about the difference between centaurs & reverse centaur (using & being used by AI), & what resistance to AI looks like www.yout…
DATA CENTERS POD (GIFT LINK). A podcast that includes the line: "the noise pollution is so profound that when you go there, you feel it in your body."
wild @kait.bsky.social dispatch about how some of the anti-data center stuff online is, itself, weird AI slop www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
the brilliant @matteowong.bsky.social lived in a hacker house in SF and the dispatch is about as batshit as you’d expect www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
gift link w/ transcript etc www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
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Great pod with @cwarzel.bsky.social and @doctorow.pluralistic.net. The conversation at the end about the material conditions that enable AI is exactly how people need to think and talk about this stuff
Really just a delight to pod with @chrislhayes.bsky.social to talk about the AI boom...how to calibrate one's anxiety in this vertiginous moment. The idea was to approach all of this as an outsider, which Chris is so excellent at. Thought this was grounding & fun www.theatlant…
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