The Who's Who of AI

“"The thing that will work is actually curing cancer,"”

“He wants to have something to show for it that people think is unambiguously good. www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ce...”

“Everyone else is worried about the AI apocalypse but I’ve been hearing about that for 30 years and I can’t get very worked up any more. For me the question is: If these things can code (and they can!) then why aren’t we seeing any great software? www.nytime…”

“We told everyone that programming wasn't the hard part, but no one believed us. The reason LLMs can excrete sort-of-okay code is that sort-of-okay code has been a commodity good for 20+ years. Then, just like now, the bottleneck was understanding what peopl…”

“For reasons mysterious to me, Will Stancil is continuing his crash out about language used to describe LLMs, moving on from raning about "stochastic parrots" to picking up on this piece that @nannainie.bsky.social and I published earlier this summer: button…”

“Instead of railing against the latest “I asked Claude” article in a mainstream publication, I’ll just post this.”

“All of this media on "takes on rogue AI" or whatever, is all the billionaires (newly minted or old), people doing so-called "AI safety" getting hundreds of millions claiming to save us from extinction, and then me playing in my kiddy pool with my pretend do…”

“We've got a book about that, of course bookshop.org/a/114797/978...”

“I just wanted to write about physics! But noooo, a fucking sex cult had to take over Silicon Valley and the entire public discourse about technology and the future while aiding the rise of fascism, and I felt duty-bound to write about that instead LOOK WHAT…”

“Gotta make sure the startup to fascist tech bro pipeline is free flowing and perpetual.”

“The Biden White House guys who had the meeting on AI with Andreessen have *just now* figured out that they should point out that Andreessen has been intentionally lying about it ever since in order to drum up support for the fascists. WHY THE FUCK DID YOU W…”

“incredibly this is also how Marc Andreessen allegedly described them to the Biden admin www.politico.com/news/magazin...”

“Some more on the show from our friends at NPR: www.npr.org/2026/09/16/g...”

“I like what Kevin and Casey do (and have known them both for years) but this is a smite-me-with-thunderbolts-ass title www.npr.org/2026/09/16/g...”

““People with knowledge of the device, who declined to be named discussing the product, describe it as a ‘holdable’ rather than a wearable. That means it’s a small, dedicated device that people can pick up and talk to throughout the day.” 🙄”

“So while governments (and the AI companies themselves) around the world are freaking out about misaligned agent swarms, Meta is making agents available to everyone in cute Tamagochi form??”

““My big fear with this technology is that people mistake it for something morally conscious, even though it flattens people into data representations and overlooks the depth of their lived complexity and dignity.””

“Well, not everywhere in the media: www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...”

“It’s so interesting how the doomers and investors are so scared of how fast Ai Is going but don’t want to talk to actual cyber security experts ( a constant feature of abusive systems is narrative control via isolation.) www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...”

“Truly astonishing that all any world leader can think to do is keep inviting the same guys into a room to give their considered advice on how we can protect ourselves from all the harmful, unsafe things deliberately done by the guys in the room”

““The exchange was not unlike talking to the AI at a Wendy's drive thru, except that Mia has a face. She blinks and shifts her weight. She casts a ‘shadow’ in her box.””