calamity, considered.
On football, frontier AI labs, and the ban on impatience. Everyone I love is watching the World Cup and, even though I haven't seen many matches, the tournament reaches me anyway. Messi updates, filed like family announcements. Haaland reels, which are a genre now, akin to Westerns. Brits in baseball stadiums cheering on outfielders. A red card overturned from the executive box, which raises my…
A riff on another article about AI economics, this time with the receipts attached. The structure here follows Andrew Singleton's article in McSweeney's called AI Economics for Dummies , containing a set of word problems meant to highlight the business side of AI as companies in the sector start to go public. Every dollar in this story is riding on one bet: that AI demand is real, durable, and…
Keep, donate, Piper. Three piles on the floor of my mother's bedroom, every handbag she owned in front of me and each one needing a decision. Grief, it turns out, comes with ( a lot of ) admin. I pick one up, worn leather, vintage, about twenty years older than I am. This is perfect for a young adult in sixteen years. So, my niece is inheriting it, whether she wants it or not. It's already…