Had a great time speaking to @johnmerrick.bsky.social about THE ASSET CLASS for @the-breakdown.bsky.social - a publication i really love
I wrote about Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism for @theguardian.com —it’s a brilliant take on why we ought to focus on the hellish 21st century update on Fordism rather than the man himself.
i was in the eagle the other night and it was packed as usual, with groups waiting round the fringes for a central table to free up. when one did it started a chain reaction, like hermit crabs come together to trade shells, each group swapping up for slightly more space
have started listening to studio ghibli soundtracks when walking around these days and it's amazing how "Going to School In A Sunny Hillside Town" puts you in a better mood than placebo
"The Claude debate [...] also occluded something deeper: the human decisions that led to the killing of between 175 and 180 people, most of them girls between the ages of seven and 12. Someone decided to compress the kill chain. Someone decided that deliberation was latency."
bethmathews.substack.com/p/why-so-man... a) amazing investigation of something you won't have consciously noticed but immediately realise is true and b) brilliant example of how game design is interaction design is safety design
a very good, troubling report on the Minab school bombing. the culprit was not AI, but an out-of-date database, whose provenance was obscured by a "simplifying" tech layer — a problem that AI will exacerbate www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...