this would make both cities worse

"New York City, selected industries, as % of non-farm employment" what % of NYC is farm employment

this made me think about how early 2000s UK cultural dominance (beckham, coldplay, hugh grant movies, the office) has kind of faded in a similar arc. maybe London got too expensive for creatives? or cultural industries just need the investment that comes with prosperity?

Great to sit down with Professor Hennessy. My favorite answer:

why don't they make tony hawk pro skater games anymore

data centers need more water or else Claude is going to get hungover

putting stickers on your laptop is the same as getting a tattoo. I will not elaborate further

everything is collecting production traces, building good evals, then fine-tuning/training models

people are paying more to supervise the AI than actually do the work?

Ironic that American reindustrialization is happening *because* of SF *Because* of the so-called SaaS and slop — the demands on energy and construction created by AI’s need for compute Not because of the do-it-because-it’s-hard flag waving moralism of those in the tech

wow TIL

It's easy to forget how deeply the founding fathers cared about free commerce as a pillar of democracy. When we look back. America was as much an experiment in markets as it was in self-government. Hamilton, in the Federalist papers:

The Luxury of Knowing We notice when we don't belong. We often don’t fully notice when we do. This happens everywhere, but especially in tech, where the systems are remarkably good at pulling people in and the groupthink is even better at keeping them there. You can spend

why is the thumbnail for a baseball video

grade inflation walked so AI benchmark inflation could run

AI cat slop will do for AI video what actual cats did for reddit

Guinness, the healthy beer

they should let you drink in waymos

Should we tax you for tweeting to protect town criers? Or tax using computers to protect typewriter repairmen? This is what resisting technological change has always sounded like