the xenonite plot armor of project hail mary

Hail Mary was a badly mismanaged, rushed death trap driven by groupthink and politics, and Ryland Grace was right to balk at the idea.

Apr 6 • Greg Fish

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how ai can love bomb you into being an asshole

In ads, chatbots are omniscient arbiters and truth brokers. In practice, they're sycophantic enablers according to the latest research.

Apr 3 • Greg Fish

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March 2026

why we're all getting meaner and meaner online

Yes, being a professional asshole is now a viable career option. Which is awful news for online discourse.

Mar 30 • Greg Fish

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how and why corporate jargon and technobabble lull the mind

Yes, sadly, some of the worst stereotypes about corporate culture really are true.

Mar 24 • Greg Fish

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the great theoretical chatbot job apocalypse

According to Anthropic, LLMs can obliterate most white collar jobs. Well, theoretically...

Mar 16 • Greg Fish

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i prompt, therefore i am: how tech forgot about human agency

Tone deaf tech bros no longer seem to understand that their pitch for AI is fundamentally dystopian and dismissive.

Mar 9 • Greg Fish

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tech starts to fight authoritarianism. kind of.

Ahmed Baba and I cut through clickbait and hype to talk about how tech is responding to being drafted to help inept authoritarianism and warmongering.

Mar 5 • Greg Fish and Ahmed Baba

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February 2026

is the future of social media the same as its past?

Why breaking the grip of giant social media platforms may require a major step back into the web's early days.

Feb 11 • Greg Fish

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why social media is ignoring a.i. slop

Social media isn't for people anymore. It's for bots, AI, investors, and metrics.

Feb 6 • Greg Fish

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the syn/ack-gogue of a.i. doomsday

Thanks to an explosion of cheap computing power, AI is advancing faster than ever. But one of it's high priests seems to be firmly stuck in the past…

Feb 2 • Greg Fish

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January 2026

maga's final solution to the tiktok problem

Handing TikTok to Trump's friends seems like a slam dunk for MAGA's PR goals, but the platform may be too unruly and too feisty to easily manipulate.

Jan 29 • Greg Fish

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cory doctorow stumbles into the paradox of code

Is code really a liability instead of an asset? Actually, it's more like Schrodinger's cat...

Jan 26 • Greg Fish

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