Archive - Programmable Mutter

Should AGI-preppers embrace DOGE?

There's magical thinking about the magical thinking

Mar 18 •

Large AI models are cultural and social technologies

A new article in Science, with Alison Gopnik, Cosma Shalizi, James Evans, and, well, me.

Mar 13 •

The attention economy is devouring politics

Social scientists need to understand how. As do we all.

Mar 9 •

ChatGPT is great at Stakhanovite propaganda

Comrades, we must seize the opportunity of LLMs if we are to be socialists

Mar 1 •

February 2025

Coming up with an alternative Silicon Valley canon

Choose your own adventure.

Feb 28 •

Silicon Valley's thing about Great Men

There _is_ an alternative

Feb 24 •

When the polycrisis hits the omnishambles, what comes next?

We're set to find out

Feb 21 •

What happens when economic coercion meets the bitcoin bros?

Nothing good for American power ...

Feb 17 •

Trump is weaponizing financial payments: here's what you can do.

Steal This Post. Please.

Feb 13 •

The Trump administration is a crime magnet

But "Springtime for Scammers" has flaws that can be exploited

Feb 11 •

Weaponizing government isn't what the Musk faction says

The value of bridging metaphors.

Feb 7 •

DOGE is ripping out the guts of government

Is there a democratic alternative?

Feb 1 •

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