🦊 “Artificial intelligence isn’t going anywhere. It’s the future.” I hear that line a lot. The thing is, futures are tricky.
The line and the stream. — ethanmarcotte.com
“Artificial intelligence is the future,” they tell me. The thing is, futures are tricky.
This interview feels like a tremendous missed opportunity: it reads like an airing of talking points, rather than properly interrogating a billionaire donor who’s comfortable slapping some nice fonts on openly fascist policies: https://www.dezeen.com/2025/11/18/america-first-chief-design-officer-joe-gebbia-interview/ #uspol
that’s a nice decentralized network you’ve got there, be a real shame if capitalism happened to it
logging on image
🦊 IN WHICH ONE AUTHOR tried to file a claim in the Anthropic copyright case, failed, got frustrated, then blogged about it while still pretty hot under the collar. (it’s me; i’m author)
A right to copy. — ethanmarcotte.com
This is one author’s short, failed journey to file a claim in Anthropic’s copyright lawsuit. (Oops. Spoilers, sorry.)
CWA just shared their research into the lives of the US-based data workers responsible for training and maintaining modern “AI” platforms. The findings are, in a word, grim:
Communications Workers of America
Ghost Workers in the AI Machine:
U.S. Data Workers Speak Out About Big Tech’s Exploitation
🦊 I’ve decided it’s past time I start describing “artificial intelligence” as a failed technology, and I’d like you to join me.
Against the protection of stocking frames. — ethanmarcotte.com
“Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology. It’s time we described it that way.
me: hey Video Call Software, could you please remember the audio settings i use literally every time i use you? software: no :) me: why not software: do u like my ai button :))))))) me: what software: :))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Oh my goodness: my old friend Rob Weychert’s just redesigned his website, and turned it into a *tremendous* personal archive for (nearly) everything he’s ever written. It is also: PRETTY AS HELL. The layout! The typography! The colors! The site architecture! Rob’s been working on this redesign for literal years, and it really, really shows.
V7: Launch day
Expanded site, new design, same me
 yay websites yay friends just: yay
“…National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nurses union and professional organization, today called for […] the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to be fired […] or to resign.” good afternoon ONLY to organized labor
National Nurses United
Nation’s largest RN union: Time for HHS Secretary RFK Jr. to go
In the wake of the latest scandal he has perpetuated, National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nurses union and professional organization, to...