I have just been introduced to Sharon Goldman's AI journalism and it's some of the funniest shit I've seen in my life. She's really out there prompting ChatGPT to write what reads like Kindle Unlimited-tier softcore erotica and getting paid. Even her "About" page on LinkedIn has two em-dashes and one --, so like, what's going on here? Local journalist can't write five sentences without an LLM? What are we DOING out here?

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The article I wrote for Ed Zitron dropped today!

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

The Remarkable Incompetence At The Heart Of Tech

Hello premium subscribers! Today I have the first guest post I've ever commissioned (read: paid) on Where's Your Ed At - Nik Suresh, one of the gre...

Ed paid me to write it, and it's accordingly behind a paywall, but if you're a subscriber (or willing to pay for access) then hopefully you'll enjoy it!

Someone did a writeup of a bunch of "AI-powered" startups attending a pitch competition, and it: a ) is fucking hilarious b ) involves one of the startups accidentally screen-sharing that their patentable technology appears to just be forked from an academic's work with no credit 3) further includes a radiology company admitting they haven't consulted any radiologists lmao

Artificial Innovation | 4u.lol

A critical look at the finalists of the United Nations AI for Good Innovation Factory 2025 startup competition.

This is a serious data question for Mastodon nerds -- is anyone aware of a single data governance product that actually does anything useful? I'm reviewing everything I can find for a client, and not a single one seems to offer any serious benefits over dbt lineage. They don't even seem to support access models more sophisticated than just like, keeping a big table mapping users to tables they're allowed to read.

Great news everyone! Thomas Ptacek at Fly.io published "My AI Skeptic Friends Are Nuts", and it was shoved in front of me enough times that I have sentenced him to a swift death. Godspeed, Thomas, I pray that your incineration is speedy and painless.

Contra Ptacek's Terrible Article On AI — Ludicity

Nothing says growing up like re-reading Calvin and Hobbes and realizing that I relate to the dad more than any other character in the strip.

I have thus far encountered one Serious Cult per week in Fiji, that is not an exaggeration, this shit is absolutely wild.

One of my co-founders went into a paid engagement yesterday and was noodling through a piece on how to prevent upstream teams from making changes to application database schemas that would break analytics pipelines. They got the attention of the room and then said "one solution is a baseball bat". There was a moment of uncomprehending silence and then they said "solve at the human layer".

I'm in a cramped, spider-filled room in Fiji with a sick cat because the non-profit clinic here doesn't have space to board all the animals, surrounded by hundreds of dusty boxes filled with medication volunteers brought in, adding validation to a spreadsheet that tracks when all currently boarded animals are due for vaccines, and it is the most useful thing I've done in my whole career lmao