ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, released their own browser called Atlas, and it actually is something new: the first browser that actively fights against t...
The Majority AI View Even though AI has been the most-talked-about topic in tech for a few years now, we're in an unusual situation where the most common opinion about AI within...
The "Taylor's Version" generation is not gonna let Big AI steal her stuff You didn’t used to have to be an expert on intellectual property law just to be a music fan. You would just put on your headphones, hit play, and enjoy whateve...
The Internet of Consent Click “I agree” to continue. You didn’t click it, though. Or maybe you did? I don’t know, it doesn’t matter. The concept of consent doesn’t exist on the mo...
MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0 Over the last few months, all the nerds have gotten excited about Model Context Protocol , or MCP. It's a spec that was designed by Anthropic (the Claude folk...
What Would “Good” AI Look Like? We're a few years into the tech industry's AI hype cycle, and it's all been characterized by far more heat than light. The assertions by the people making the...
"AI-first" is the new Return To Office The latest fad amongst tech CEOs is no longer "founder mode", or taking drugs that they would fire you for taking, or telling everybody to return to...
How Oprah will screw up the AI story As I write this, we’ve just heard news that Oprah is planning to do a big broadcast special about AI and society. Despite the fact that it hasn’t aired, and I...
Today's AI is unreasonable. There's an extraordinary amount of hype around "AI" right now, perhaps even greater than in past cycles, where we've seen an AI bubble about once per...
12 Things Everyone Should Understand About Tech Tech is more important than ever, deeply affecting culture, politics and society. Given all the time we spend with our gadgets and apps, it’s essential to unde...
Peak Dad Twitter Hot on the heels of Vanity Fair referencing my dad-ness on Twitter comes this Daily Dot piece examining Dad Twitter . I loved this part: If that sounds...
well, excuuuse me My, you’re all a sensitive bunch! I wrote a little ha-ha peevish thing yesterday and now everyone thinks I’m mad. This is what I do for fun , kids. Since ever...
another bad movie idea I am going to make a bad action movie about the Internet and it’s going to be called "Inbox: Klezstorm!"....
whygodwhy : lounge I am playing Kevin ‘s version of “Desafinado” over and over. I will do so again tonight, when I finally get to read Manual . Which document, I think, shoul...
poetry Geek Poetry ? Inspired by absence and distance? Hmm… I’m but a server, awaiting request, Proffering pages at your behest. Since your state persists, I...
I don't do the New I don’t do the New Year’s Resolution thing, but if I did, I’d use Stan’s . Addendum: And he keeps it all the way real by breaking down white folk smell . W...
As long as I'm rambling As long as I’m rambling about popular media, I should also mention that the song “Butterflies” off the new Michael Jackson album (Track 7 on Invincible ) is...
Do you know why he Do you know why he shares his names with Jesse James ? Because he shoots so well . I did many things during my trip to Texas. I don’t know if it’s because...
