They can’t make computers as intelligent as humans, but they can make humans as unthinking as computers.

You don’t think this blurb is going straight to the cover of the paperback edition?

El Niño and La Niña are little children of our former calm climate.

What is coming next is
El hombre and La mujer

The big grownup weather is about to hit.

Yeah, that Bloomberg Quadrant looks like it’s occupied solely by substackers and podcasters.

I think I probably have ADHD, I've been encouraged by professionals to do all the research I can, and now I've learned all sorts of things that are really interesting and none of them are about ADHD

I double checked after I posted because although the green eyebrow header was a major tip-off, I’d hate sending out false info.

If you Google “Margot Jollenston,” it’s the first hit.

This looks like it’s from Clickhole, a former Onion site.

15 years ago @jevinwest.bsky.social and I talked about how we needed a data scientists’ code of ethics like the Hippocratic oath.

We still do.

Of course, one of the reasons the UK has got to this position is precisely because of several decades of an economy based on making police procedurals. Each time a scriptwriter has a good idea for a plot, Home Office civil servants watching the show think about stopping it.

For every Jared Harris there is a Moon Unit Zappa.

Because kids have to see it to believe it:

Wow, that’s a deep cut.

The other thing with the "crisis of young men" stuff is that there's like a segment of young men who really suck, but in a lot of ways the men who don't, suck less than men did in previous generations