An honest piece of software is like an honest politician: when it’s bought, it stays bought.
Honest Technology
Mars is a lab
It looks like the Overton Window has finally caught up with Alina Chan. It is now acceptable to entertain the notion that the COVID-19 pandemic originated in a laboratory.
Taylor Swift is a Schelling Point
The Matthew effect: pop music edition
Building playgrounds for the imagination
I’ve been thinking about how and why some topics, periods, and ideas become fertile ground supporting an ecosystem of imaginary worlds, and others do not.
Plausibility, ridiculousness, and surprise
Will Sasso doesn’t look anything like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Or Steven Seagal. He does kinda look like James Gandolfini. But his impressions of all three actors are equally good. Why?