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The Reticle Limit
The marketed 30x generational leap in AI chips collapses to about 18x once you strip out a one-time accounting trick, and the real hardware improvement underneath both numbers is 47 percent. Not a typo.
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Revenue from Nowhere (AI Economics)
A meaningful share of the debt financing the AI buildout is collateralized by one company's promise to buy things from another company that needs that promise to be believed. Oracle's credit default swaps just hit their highest level since 2008. Coincidence is a strong word.
Tech
One Laser ...
The 1960 hierarchy was written down and voted on. Everything that did the real sorting afterward had no author.
Tech
The Hate Was Never New, Just the Bandwidth
Kathy Sierra got doxxed and death-threatened in 2007, seven years before Gamergate, with none of today's algorithmic muscle. The hate wasn't invented later. Someone just built better plumbing for it, and found out outrage pays the bills.
Too smart to organize, now it's too late
Übermensch in a Cubicle Farm Pt 5: The Reckoning
Bringing it to a close, what are the chances of the tech industry unionizing? It's possible, but it will be more difficult than if it happened in the 80's and 90's
Political Musing
How the Right Built a Media Machine Nobody Can Turn Off
The audience became the editorial board. And the editorial board only votes for more.
Too smart to organize, now it's too late
Übermensch in a Cubicle Farm Pt 4: The Ticket Queue Is Not a Career
In the 4th installment, we look at the CS/STEM to tech pipeline, but also the fact that not all roles were equal. Puncturing the mythos.
Too smart to organize, now it's too late
Übermensch in a Cubicle Farm Part 3: Golden Handcuffs and Hunger Games
Part 3 - we get into the factors employed by employers to turn the staff into a Hunger Games fight for survival that doesn't feel unnatural
Too smart to organize, now it's too late
Übermensch in a Cubicle Farm - Post 2: The Valley Mythology Machine
The white collars met management with a twist of No California wackiness, and the die were cast.
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Übermensch in a Cubicle Farm - Pt 1: The Collar Color Was Always a Con
Why doesn't Tech unionize? It isn't difficult to suss out, but you have to look at it in context. This is the start of a weekly series about the "why"
Tech
The Bait and Switch (TFG Pt 3)
The third and final episode of this trainwreck: I look at what this passel of chucklefucks is doing to smaller writers as they shred any fidelity remaining to their original mission statement. It's all about the bucks.
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The Algorithm Is the Policy (Or: Nazis, Then Tate, Then Whatever's Next) (TFG pt 2)
Part 2 of the TFG Trilogy: the algorithm makes the shittiness endemic, and the progression of nazi -> Andy Tate -> (who the fuck knows what is next, but it ain't gon' be good) Yay, capitalism.