Julian Dunn's Stack

Tumblr to me has always seemed to resemble a stack: you push information onto it, and occasionally pop it off to create additional content. I'm using my Tumblr as a sort of "/tmp" for my life.

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AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity

Depressing but I have no reason to disbelieve Nik Suresh here since he sees inside these companies.

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Screenshotted from Twitter because I don’t really want to send traffic there

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‘They’ve pickled each others’ brains’

Longtime entrepreneur and critic Anil Dash speaks with Gazetteer on where the tech industry has been and where it may be going.

Completely identify with Anil Dash’s viewpoint here. I feel very lost, bereft and adrift in the current iteration of the tech industry.

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How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization

Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against

Some alternatives to use when talking about these synthetic text extrusion machines.

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Should I (You?) Have a Seat at the AI Table? - The FLTMAG

By Jessika Foreshee DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/TVGV3190 It was a Tuesday afternoon and I had just walked into a hot yoga class. The r

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Report - No Bailouts for Big Tech Billionaires: Policies for when the AI bubble bursts — Open Markets Institute

Open Markets Institute fellow Matthew Sherer, publishes a thought invoking report warning that the artificial intelligence boom is increasin

A well-researched report arguing why the AI industry and tech billionaires generally should not get bailed out when the bubble bursts. Sadly, as Sherer notes, policy has not been trending this way, since politicians of all stripes are firmly in the pockets of those same billionaires. But we can dream on.

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Big Tech Has Suddenly Flipped on the AI Jobs Wipeout Scenario

Wall Street Journal article:

"https://archive.is/Pn7GU"

It obviously begets the question: if AI isn't going to wipe out jobs, and the ROI is uncertain, then what on earth are we doing?

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The Pudding

The Pudding explains ideas with visual essays.

Very cool website. Reminds of what the Internet used to be like.

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I like the Internet. I am old enough to remember the pre-Internet era and despite the younger generations pining for those simpler days, I w

This was a very enlightening but also infuriating read. I’m not angry at Mat for being the messenger but angry at how the way the tech industry and global society is being run in 2026 was foreseen decades ago.

Had I known about Langdon Winner’s work and his essay back when I was starting my tech career, I might not have even become a tech person. Because now I hate nearly everything about what the Internet has become and I feel very complicit in making it this way because I was toiling under technofeudalism for most of my career without really knowing it, and the way the Internet is today was basically foretold by people much smarter than me while I was still a teenager.

I feel adrift for having found out that much of it was not only a lie, but that I was unknowingly part of perpetuating that lie.

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Bosses Horrified as "AI Native" College Graduates Hit the Workplace

"AI native" college graduates are hitting the workplace -- and, as experts warned, bosses are finding their performance disappointing.

Yikes

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How the AI bubble could pop and take down the global economy, according to the BIS

Central bank for central banks sees shades of dotcom mania in hyperscaler capex binge

Not a good future looming.

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Love Joe Hudson's videos and advice.

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Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short | TechCrunch

"Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence ... that would produce a high-quality product.”

Hope they asked for 2x their previous salary.

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Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t

Coding agents as normal technology

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Saw Metric on Wednesday night.

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Silicon Valley Has an Empathy Vacuum

Silicon Valley fails to take into account the human consequences of its technological wizardry.

RIP Om Malik.

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What Kind of Mind Does ChatGPT Have?

Large language models seem startlingly intelligent. But what’s really happening under the hood?

Written over three years ago, this article still holds up pretty well, which is impressive considering all of the ridiculous prognostications since then about how generative AI will or won't take our jobs, become super-intelligent and destroy the world, etc.