I swear what Trump and his ilk need is a torment fidget spinner. Like, a spider whose legs grow back when he plucks them.

It'd be hilarious if China decided to seize and nationalize Tesla's factories.

one of my strongest held beliefs is that we will not fix any of our most serious problems unless we are willing to hold a Nuremberg for social media executives, funders and engineers

I guess we're just smashing the national self-destruct button now.

All I want for at least the next four years is for us to skip the murder half of the murder-suicide pact that is fascism.

Can't say I'm surprised by the TikTok ban — the primacy of "national security" has been enshrined since Korematsu v. United States. Expect increasing flimsy citations of that need to justify much more nakedly bigoted decisions.

It occurs to me that I can't think of a single example of generative AI anywhere in the sci-fi I've read or seen. Turns out that a machine that boils oceans so tech-bros can avoid being actually creative is no one's idea of a worthwhile time.