Today’s computer science grads face more than double the unemployment rate of art history majors. nextdraft.com/archives/…
This long interview with Sharon Stone is extremely intense. www.theguardian.com/lifeandst…
How AI, Healthcare, and Labubu Became the US Economy. “… the US is becoming Las Vegas - but everywhere. We are essentially building a glorified, speculative fantasy while China focuses on the foundational, ‘boring’ work of scientific and technological advancement.” kyla.substack.com/p/how-ai-…
A bleak assessment by Kyla Scanlon. But she ends on a cautiously hopeful note. We have the skills and labor to turn the U.S., and the west, around. We need the will and leadership.
Good ideas are popular: But they’re impolitic. “In democracies, we’re told, politicians exist to reflect and enact the popular will; but the truth is, politicians’ primary occupation is thwarting the will of the people, in preference to the will of a small group of wealthy, powerful people.” Most people around the world support socialism and socialist policies. But politicians don’t represent most people; politiians represent the super-wealthy. Fortunately, the super-wealthy hate each other, which gives the people people opportunity to enact policies that benefit all. By Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/08/0…
First impressions of Sydney. “A remarkably relaxing city – maybe too relaxing?” By Chris Arnade walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/first-i…
As always, I admire Arnade’s photographic skills, his ability to capture beauty in mundane streetscapes.
Coming Soon: Your Professional Decline. On kottke.org.
“Super weird to have innocuously added a silly personal anecdote to a post you didn’t realize was super popular… Only to have it cross your dash a week later and find out that like 12,000 people think you’re lying. ¯_(ツ)_/¯” www.tumblr.com/dduane/79…
“…. watching otherwise “progressive” people start to parrot jokes about like “Clanker with a hard R” and “screws will not replace us” and whatnot is like 🫥 “ www.tumblr.com/reverieau…
OpenAI is an arm’s-length subsidiary of Microsoft, and OpenAI needs GPT5 to convince Microsoft to keep the money flowing and not just swallow OpenAI outright. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/0…