AI’s productivity theater

This week on my podcast, I read part four of “Spill“, a new Little Brother story commissioned by Clay F Carlson and published on Reactor, the online publication of Tor Books. Also available in DRM-free ebook form as a Tor Original. I didn’t plan to go to Oklahoma, but I went to Oklahoma. My day... <a href="https://craphound.com/littlebrother/2024/10/28/spill-part-four-a-little-brother-story/" class="more-link" title="Read Spill, part four (a Little Brother story)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

This week on my podcast, I read part three of “Spill“, a new Little Brother story commissioned by Clay F Carlson and published on Reactor, the online publication of Tor Books. Also available in DRM-free ebook form as a Tor Original. I didn’t plan to go to Oklahoma, but I went to Oklahoma. My day... <a href="https://craphound.com/littlebrother/2024/10/26/spill-part-three-a-little-brother-story/" class="more-link" title="Read Spill, part three (a Little Brother story)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

This week on my podcast, I read part two of “Spill“, a new Little Brother story commissioned by Clay F Carlson and published on Reactor, the online publication of Tor Books. Also available in DRM-free ebook form as a Tor Original. I didn’t plan to go to Oklahoma, but I went to Oklahoma. My day... <a href="https://craphound.com/littlebrother/2024/10/26/spill-part-two-a-little-brother-story/" class="more-link" title="Read Spill, part two (a Little Brother story)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

This week on my podcast, I read part one of “Spill“, a new Little Brother story commissioned by Clay F Carlson and published on Reactor, the online publication of Tor Books. Also available in DRM-free ebook form as a Tor Original. Doctors smoke. Driving instructors text and drive. Dentists eat sugary snacks before bed. And... <a href="https://craphound.com/littlebrother/2024/10/06/spill-part-one-a-little-brother-story/" class="more-link" title="Read Spill, part one (a Little Brother story)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

This week on my podcast, I read “Vigilant“, a new Little Brother story commissioned by Nelda Buckman and published on Reactor, the online publication of Tor Books. Also available in DRM-free ebook form as a Tor Original. Kids hate email. Dee got my number from his older brother, who got it from Tina, my sister-in-law,... <a href="https://craphound.com/littlebrother/2024/09/29/vigilant-a-little-brother-story/" class="more-link" title="Read Vigilant (a Little Brother story)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

This week on my podcast, I read my latest Pluralistic.net column, “Anti-cheat, gamers, and the Crowdstrike disaster” about the way that gamers were sucked into the coalition to defend trusted computing, and how the Crowdstrike disaster has seen them ejected from the coalition by Microsoft: As a class, gamers *hate* digital rights management (DRM), the... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2024/09/15/anti-cheat-gamers-and-the-crowdstrike-disaster/" class="more-link" title="Read Anti-cheat, gamers, and the Crowdstrike disaster">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

This week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus Magazine column, “Marshmallow Longtermism” a reflection on how conservatives self-mythologize as the standards-bearers for deferred gratification and making hard trade-offs, but are utterly lacking in these traits when it comes to climate change and inequality. I’m no fan of Charles Koch, but I agree that... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2024/09/08/marshmallow-longtermism/" class="more-link" title="Read Marshmallow Longtermism">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

This week on my podcast, I read a recent post from my Pluralistic.net blog/newsletter: “AI’s productivity theater,” about the severe mismatch between the bosses who buy AI to increase their workers’ efficiency, and the utter bafflement of the workers who are expected to use the AI…somehow. A new research report from the Upwork Research Institute... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2024/08/04/ais-productivity-theater/" class="more-link" title="Read AI’s productivity theater">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

This week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus Magazine column, Unpersoned>; about the enormous power that we’ve given to tech giants to determine who can participate in modern life, and why the answer to the giants’ failure to wield that power wisely is to take it away, rather than attempting to perfect their... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2024/07/29/unpersoned/" class="more-link" title="Read Unpersoned">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

This week on my podcast, I read The reason you can’t buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you, a column from one of last week’s editions of my Pluralistic newsletter; it describes a monopoly pattern whereby companies execute a series of mergers to dominate a sector, leaving... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2024/06/30/the-reason-you-cant-buy-a-car-is-the-same-reason-that-your-health-insurer-let-hackers-dox-you/" class="more-link" title="Read The reason you can’t buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>