# oddities
A quick update on some developments for this newsletter.
# tech
The creative, open web is being strangled by homogenized omni-platforms. Just look at the evolution of Substack.
# oddities
Of all the dystopias that get covered in pop culture and the media, a technocracy seldom makes the list. It probably should.
# tech
No one forgot about 4chan. The site may be on and off, but we all live in the world its worst trolls built.
# tech
Sex tapes used to be shocking scandals. Now, you may be in one and not even know it.
# space
Jason Pargin joins a growing list of sci-fi authors growing despondent over how hard it is to explore space in real life.
# tech
Grifters and trolls around the world are making bank destabilizing nations with lies.
# tech
Sometimes, the biggest mistake is not letting things crash and burn.
# tech
The new edict in the office: use our AI, or else.
# science
Modern technology and computing made nuclear testing unnecessary. Modern politics make it insanely dangerous.
# space
No, seriously, they think we should be thrilled.
# tech
AI slop isn't killing human creativity. It's doing something much worse.
# space
What happens when your crops fail and you're tens of trillions of miles from Earth?
# tech
What if Silicon Valley's high priests of AGI get their wish, but end up with a digital god that wants nothing to do with them?
# space
Are we going to have new AWS regions orbiting overhead by 2050? Physics says no.
