An all-star crew, a plan that tricked the police, and a successful getaway that left them with a fortune. But no one expected what happened next.
The CNET Fake News Fiasco, Autopilot, and the Uncanny Cognitive Valley
Some things we all need to watch out for.
» Mr Roberts Goes to Hollywood, Part 1: A Digital Anvil The Digital Antiquarian
What I’d really like to do is a game where you could travel from planet to planet — and there would be hundreds of planets — with full 3D action. You could go down and explore each planet in detail and interact with all sorts of live-action characters. Plus you could retool your ship with lots of different guns and engines.
The Hero Returns: Steve Jobs’ real genius
As the three-year anniversary of Steve Jobs’ passing approaches in October, complete lessons from his life and legacy are still far from…
The Daily Planet #126: A Plausible Dystopia - The Daily Planet
All I wanted was a swimming pool. What I got was a $31,000 lesson in Zelle fraud.
In search of a status symbol, I wound up getting ripped off big-time. But the real scam is how America's payment apps treat their customers.
The Titan Submersible Was “An Accident Waiting to Happen”
Interviews and e-mails with expedition leaders and employees reveal how OceanGate ignored desperate warnings from inside and outside the company. “It’s a lemon,” one wrote.
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shoc…
The End of Silicon Valley (Bank)
Silicon Valley Bank bears responsibility for its demise, but it symbolizes a Silicon Valley reality that is very different from the myth — and the ultimate cause is tech itself.
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The Beast
No one would have believed, in the increasingly stupid years of the 21st century, that I would open my daily scroll of doom to learn that James Patterson—the literary equivalent of a haunted fax machine plugged directly into the overflow tank at a Red Bull factory—was ‘co-writing’ a thriller with MrBeast, a man-child YouTube trolligarch who gamifies human desperation for likes, filming acts of weaponised charity to unlock a giant personal loot box in the winner-takes-all game of late-stage capitalism.
A year into the wreckage and salvage
It’s coming up on been a year, somehow, since I started this website/micro-studio/space to think in. What a wild choice that was, setting out in October of 2024, eyes on the horizon! We’d hoped things would turn out differently. The research and thinking I came
Why MoviePass really failed
An industry-shaking idea, and a company that flew directly into the sun
How Amazon and the White House ended Anthropic's Fable
The episode highlights the reactionary approach to a technology that is moving at breakneck speed.
Steven Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’ Turns Autofiction Into Thrilling Sci-Fi
The Hollywood maestro’s latest is filled with excitement and sentimentality.
The beautiful mind of Sam Bankman-Fried
They want you to think they’re the next Steve Jobs. Somehow, they keep turning out to be Elizabeth Holmes.
