25 2026 May
Amazon Invents Another Way to Steal Media with AI-Generated Podslop
Amazon just announced Alexa Podcasts, a new Alexa+ feature available to paying Amazon Prime members. The platform allows you to ask for information on any...
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The Science Is In. AI Is Definitely Making You Dumber, If You Let It
This is a story that will surprise no one who reads my newsletter regularly, but what was surprising to me over the past few weeks...
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Meta’s Big Self-Inflicted Problem
This past week, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta will be offering “completely private” encrypted chat for users. That sounds like great news. The problem is in the...
Read Now29 2026 April
What If the Biggest Threat to Human Thinking Isn’t AI?
Most conversations about the future threat to human reasoning start and end with artificial intelligence. That misses a big threat that’s finally getting more attention:...
Read Now15 2026 April
The Tragedy of American Taxes Isn’t Actually the Taxes
People hate taxes and filing their taxes, yet the tax refund check is the biggest single payment most Americans get all year. It is tax season in...
Read Now23 2026 March
Huggies Expensive Sh*t and the Age of Experiential Advertising
Stunts are nothing new in the world of marketing, but they are not usually done via live streaming nor include quite so specific of a...
Read Now19 2026 January
America’s Data Blind Spot Is Real … and Getting Worse
One way to control the story about what’s happening in the world is to remove any data that can prove otherwise. That seems to be...
Read Now21 2025 November
The Truth About Toxic Words and Why Word Policing Doesn’t Work
In closed meetings leading up to the G20 Summit happening in South Africa this weekend, early reports note that in addition to the Trump administration...
Read Now26 2025 September
An Insider Perspective on What Happened to Silicon Valley
One of the long reads from this month’s WIRED magazine offers an insider account to the shift that’s happened within Silicon Valley and particularly to the ideals...
Read Now15 2025 September
Anonymity Is Dead. Are We All Really Content Now?
A CEO caught on a kiss cam having an affair isn’t just the latest social media story gone unexpectedly viral. It’s also an indication of...
Read Now11 2025 September
How Fixing AI Slop Might Be the Next Big Job Opportunity … For Those Willing to Do It
What do you do when your AI generated text or image comes out not quite right? A growing number of people are turning to writers...
Read Now04 2025 September
The Death of Articulate Criticism
No one cares what you hate on social media. Or at least they shouldn’t. But as the anonymity of the Internet offers up permission to...
Read Now07 2025 August
The Book on How NOT To Use AI Is Being Written Right Now
European payment network Klarna was one of the first fintech companies to go all in on AI. They were even featured as a case study by OpenAI....
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