So if the AI bubble is popping, what will happen to the data centers? I found a very strange analogy about 80 miles from data center alley.
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I found two recent middlebrow NYT bestsellers to be aggressively "mid." Clearly dashed off. These are authors who can really move both culture and elite culture. If even they've given up on books, who is left?
A new joy of medicine is where you literally watch the Doctor Google stuff on a big monitor in front of you.
Has anyone done a psychological profile on which pilots/train conductors feel the need to announce every single detail of their incredibly fascinating jobs?
The video game G.O.A.T. on GTA VI...
This is the inside story behind the making of Grand Theft Auto VI bloomberg.com/features/2026-…
"Mr. Pope, my God Claude is making some dope music videos that will totally cook motion designers!"
NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-…
Yike-o-cities. Please make the Revenge of the Jocks movie, somebody.
NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-…
Please support the old men, truck drivers, bowlers, and Villagers in your life.
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Though it's true - there's no reward for original ideas at all! I wish there were...
I spent 30 days as a 75 year-old-man on the internet.
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a) Call me Ishmael...
b) Now here's a story all about a super big whale...
c) In the next 500 pages, you're going to...
I don't know how many times I have to keep saying this. What about the Orson Welles theatrical off-Broadway Digger? Are we just pretending he didn't win the Tony for his take on Digger?












