i finished Helen of Nowhere more than a week ago and i am still thinking about it. mostly just laughing. when i finished it. i immediately laughed for 30 minutes. fell asleep giggling. work up laughing. incredible book
I recently spoke with a cool group of high school students. I quite liked the conversation and where they pushed it. It ended up being a good summary of my beliefs currently. I wrote it up here: harper.blog/2026/08/15/f...
Notes From a Fugue State: Put the Things in Your Head That You Love
A free-form conversation with high school students turned into a surprisingly coherent set of ideas about AI, entrepreneurship, power, authenticity, taste, …
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New Podcast Episode: This Week in Tech: California Sober Kimi K3, Qwen3.8, & China's Open-Weight AI Gambit with @leolaporte.me, @harper.lol, @alexwilhelm.bsky.social
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What happens when China drops open-weight AI models that rival Silicon Valley’s best? This episode unpacks how a new wave of international AI releases is shaking up business
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I built an agent palace. a place where agents can hang out with other agents. I added a few agents (one sol, and one fable) to a room in the palace. They were hanging out, and I suggested an idea for them to build ("a watercolor for agents to gossip around").
Went to Cali for a fun party in the woods. Was able to hang with friends and talk about the future. Highly recommended.
It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.
Ohhhh hey. Now that the obvious has happened and Decision Desk has called it for Raman, you’ll see two common tropes: “they were printed not counted!” and “these stats show it’s rigged!” (Bad Math) Read my post and share it with family members who come at you with that.
Renee DiResta@noupside.bsky.social · 3mo agoI wrote about Spencer Pratt’s very online campaign, the predictable election fraud accusations that have started now that he’s looking likely to not make the runoff, and what this tells us about the 2026 midterms open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...
Whenever I buy groceries these days I'm like "Jesus, so expensive, might as well order in" and then I order in and it costs like 4x more than I expect and anyway nobody in my generation can afford rent or food.
China is pulling ahead in AI video generation, NVIDIA's CEO is joining Trump on a trip to Beijing, and American tech dominance may be more fragile than anyone wants to admit on This Week in Tech with @leolaporte.me, @amywebb.bsky.social, & @harper.lol! twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1084
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Is the era of American tech dominance ending? Get an inside look at how China’s pragmatic approach to AI, robotics, and hardware is shifting the global balance, and why the US
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New Podcast Episode: This Week in Tech: Don't Overcook the Asparagus US Tech Titans vs. China's Rising Innovators with @leolaporte.me, @harper.lol, @amywebb.bsky.social
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Is the era of American tech dominance ending? Get an inside look at how China’s pragmatic approach to AI, robotics, and hardware is shifting the global balance, and why the US
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Night in Shimbashi. Taken with an M11 and a 50mm summilux We will be back in a few weeks. HMU
This administration is engaged in an all-out war against free speech, and everyone who pretended that conservatives were "pro-free speech" needs to take several seats and reflect on why they were so easily duped (or complicit). www.science.org/content/arti...
After USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school
Move comes after Roger Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs
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it’s so weird that hating windmills really does seem to be one of this man’s core beliefs
Justin Gerdes@justingerdes.bsky.social · 4mo ago"Trump is now effectively blocking any new wind projects in the US, according to the main renewables trade group, using the federal government’s power over all things air and sky to grind a routine approval process to a screeching halt," reports @jael.bsky.social: heatmap.news/plus/the-fig... 🔌💡
How could anyone think these decisions about citizenship, autonomy, voting, representative democracy, and the now nonexistent limits of executive power are political?
Leakers leaking that he's looking for leakers
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4mo agoBREAKING MS NOW: Kash Patel has ordered the polygraphing of more than two dozen former and current members of his security detail and other staff and has been described as in panic mode to save his job and find leakers among his team, according to two people briefed on the development.
Quite a change of locale. Also I wear hats now. Sports hats. But motorsports.
"I have no interest in Rome trying to dictate American policy" was also one of the driving forces behind 1920s Klan recruitment.
Cathy@cathyby.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe Megan tweet with ALT
