Still sick. Still raining. Both conditions seem permanent.
TODAY:
- The first signs of burnout are coming from the people who embrace AI the most. At this point, the only AI-proximate object I operate is Perplexity for occasional search.
- Supposedly the “jazz shoe” is making a comeback, “Repetto’s Zizi is made using the same 1960s cousu-retourné stitch-and-return technique; demand for the style has grown by 10 per cent over the past three years, buoyed by the collective shift towards softer, lower-profile footwear. (According to Edited’s Katharine Carter, shoes on the market described as “chunky” and “platform” are down 33 per cent year-on-year.)”
- “In important ways, I’ve learned absolutely nothing in the last 15 years” Venkatesh Rao powering up again, it seems
Accessions:
Picked up a sample of this last year, it was on sale yesterday.
UNIT X: HOW THE PENTAGON AND SILICON VALLEY ARE TRANSFORMING THE FUTURE OF WAR, Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff (UK) (US+)
STATUS: deth
READING: A FIELD GUIDE TO REALITY, Joanna Kavenna (UK) (US+)
LISTENING:
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