Your humble author in 2009, with his last even vaguely cool car, a 2000 Volkswagen GTI. I sold the GTI and left the United States that same summer. I wouldn’t own another car for ten years.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang GTC 2026 Full Keynote
» The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 1: SimEverything The Digital Antiquarian
I’m still to this day just blown away by continental drift and things like that, stuff that most people think sounds pretty boring.
Speed: How It Explains the World - Vaclav Smil
In a world that feels like it’s moving faster than ever, Smil examines how our relentless pursuit of speed – in areas such as production, travel and communication – shapes not only our technological landscape but also our social and environmental realities. And through engaging anecdotes and striking statistics, Smil challenges the assumption that faster is always better.
The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech G…
"The definitive look at the most remarkable business st…
Brett Scott (@brettscott)
Despite all the rhetoric about automation supposedly making our lives easier, the true story being told by Big Tech is that our lives are better when speeded up You are supposed to be in an ever-accelerating race, packing more units of experience into the same unit of time, a phenomenon that requires a contraction of patience and a blurring of experience as everything quickens In the end, this is what ‘convenience’ actually is. It’s a state of being in which you become disassociated and disengaged from the texture of the world around you. You pass through it dreamlike, and suddenly wake up decades years later as an elderly person on your deathbed, thinking “WTF happened”, as then the memory slips away
Why We Need the Jetsons and Solarpunk
“We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.” Peter Thiel’s famous lament captures the disappointment of those of us raised on mid-20th-century technological optimism.
AI Is Slowing Down
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Scott Jenson – Exploring the world beyond mobile
Fast AI requires slow thinking The current Silicon Valley flex is trading notes on your favorite new AI tools over lunch. Each week brings another one to explore. Some of these tools are very impressive; I’ve been able to reply to someone with an alternative UI design in less than a minute, and they were […]
Rohan Paul on Twitter / X
Google is trying to win AI by making compute cheap, not by beating Nvidia on raw speed.Nvidia sells GPUs to clouds with a big 70%+ margin that sits on top of manufacturing and R&D cost and raises cloud prices.Google builds TPUs for itself at near manufacturing cost, adds no… https://t.co/aSgWRf0HY7 pic.twitter.com/T3Fzc6czwg— Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) November 25, 2025
AI Is Too Expensive
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Reducing car dependence: benefits, strategies, unintended consequences, and future directions of post-car urban transitions
This paper presents the state of the art of post-car urban transitions. It begins with an overview of the impact of automobility on planetary and human well-being. The benefits of post-car cities a...
The AI Industry Is Losing
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AI Doesn't Have ROI
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Import AI 468: 23 RSI ideas; PostTrainBench+; and how trust and transparency interplay with AI racing
Which galaxy will you choose?
I wrote a bit about my recent CAR parsing optimization adventures:
Making Ruby go brrrr (with Codex)
lab.mackuba.euA lot of AI criticism makes me feel like someone says “the automobile has been disastrous for society” and I’m nodding along like “yeah I actually really agree, I think that car centric urban design has-“ and then they add “also it’s a scam, cars break down after more than ten miles anyway”
