Clive Thompson

Great essay!!!

Terrific @WIRED piece by Andrew Kay about the lives of long-haul truckers: [link] It's pretty grim -- trucks are rolling panopticons, stripping drivers of autonomy and privacy

That's an awesome essay!

A terrific @ibogost piece on ChatGPT, which lands on a terrific point about using the tool as an aesthetic instrument rather than an epistemological one:

Excellent piece by @vwang3, in which she spent two weeks talking to residents in some of china’s biggest economic hubs, to capture their deep disillusionment with the government’s handling of COVID:

A terrific story by @jetjocko about why LED streetlights are turning purple around the world: [link] "There's nothing shady going on here." 😅

Wonderful analysis of the physics of Ross Chastain's now-famous wall-hugging video-game move at a NASCAR race:

*Super* interesting piece by @jetjocko on the nature of collective intelligence on social networks

Wonderful piece by @debs about the nature of public commons, what we’ve learned about their management, and how it applies to digital commons:

Yes, an excellent piece! I saw it shared yesterday, and it's part of what was on my mind when I tweeted about this just now It's quite freaky, isn't it?

Glad you liked it! Excellent thread

“While Elon may not give a shit about the FTC, the FTC can make his life absolutely fucking miserable.” excellent post by @mmasnick about the “consent decree” Twitter has with the FTC — ie rules forcing Twitter to be careful with user info: