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Trapped in the Maw of a Stillborn God
Vegas as a laboratory for surveillance and social control, the explosion of gambling as a sign of a degenerate culture seized by despair, AI delusions…
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AI, indulgences, and the false promise of salvation
on (some of) the moral externalities in the AI economy
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DNA's real value: advertising, authoritarianism, apartheid
Or how to re-legitimize "natural" hierarchies and their politics
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The phony comforts of useful idiots
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The Silicon Valley Consensus & AI Capex (Part 1)
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AI, slavery, surveillance, and capitalism
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Does OpenAI's latest marketing stunt matter?
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AI, indulgences, and the false promise of salvation
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Uber's Bastards
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Does OpenAI's latest marketing stunt matter?
On distractions, intentions, aesthetics, and fascism.
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Uber's Bastards II
On the proliferation of algorithmic overseers in the on-demand service industry.
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A dance with death, science fiction I won't describe, a weird Welsh bookseller, techo-fascism, and a lot of jazz
The Tech Bubble Consumer Dispatch #4 (03/12/25)
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The Silicon Valley Consensus & AI Capex (Part 1)
On overbuilding AI infrastructure and its energy supply
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Uber's Bastards
On the ride-hail model and the gig economy's metastasis.
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The Second Assassination of Martin Luther King: Whitewashing a Legacy of Dissent
For MLK Day + Trump inauguration, here is the first essay I ever put online—published 11 years ago.
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We All Live in the Firestorm: Infinite Crisis and the LA Wildfires
Jathan Sadowski on the ecological, financial, social, and political crises competing to swallow us whole.
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