Managing editor at Transformer. Ex-tech editor at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, also previously Guardian and New Statesman. Sometime media columnist. Signal: jasperjackson.01 https://www.transformernews.ai/
Jasper Jackson
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Just sent out. The USA seems to have committed war crime deliberately and openly, by destroying civilian access to water as summer approaches. It is strategically idiotic and morally repulsive--and needs to be acknowledged if the US has a chance to recover. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
This film looks great and boycotting it is mind-bendingly daft levels of face/nose spiting www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
(These screenshots are from the opening to the latest essay from the CEO of Anthropic.)
I'm sorry, but does it, does it really? This is the most cogent analogy you can come up with for something you regularly say is going to be the most powerful technological change in millennia.
(And I say this as someone who spends a not insignificant amount of his spare time playing with model elves.)
I am begging the tech industry to stop being obsessed with Lord of the Rings.
I'm glad to see Brendan being consistent here in calling this out, I've been surprised that many people who have talked about misinformation and public policy in the past have sort of sat this one out, on an issue that is very important to get right.
They keep quoting a book they don't understand.
The Ents win. They take their time and do what's needed. That's the whole point of the sequence. They may move as a glacier, but they're equally as devastating.
With tomorrow being the 10th anniversary of @pixelatedboat.bsky.social's "Milkshake Duck" tweet, I think Pokemon Go might be one of the all-time great milkshake ducks:
