Pirate Wires

The Pirate Wires newsletter offers a concise recap and commentary on current happenings, while the podcast episodes and in-depth essays explore unconventional, challenging, or intriguing subjects that capture my interest.

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Freedom of Leech

1 week ago | piratewires.com | Mike Solana

npr’s ceo has has a near perfect record of ideological opposition to silicon valley, even arguing at oxford in 2018 that the rise of tech ‘empires’ are a net negative for society
Inside Palantir’s Bet on High School Grads

3 weeks ago | piratewires.com | Blake Dodge

Harvard is Turning Away Teenage Geniuses. Palantir is Hiring. palantir head of talent marge york on why they're poaching kids fresh out of high school, ivy league dysfunction, and what happens when you treat 18-year-olds like adults
Golden Age

3 weeks ago | piratewires.com | Mike Solana

as we work at building a better future, let's dig in to how we got to where we are today
Harvard is Turning Away Teenage Geniuses. Palantir is Hiring.

4 weeks ago | piratewires.com | Blake Dodge

a former palantir engineer on how the company‚Äôs culture of relentless execution led to a $230 billion market cap
The "Retarded" State of Affairs at Apple: An Interview with David Heinemeier Hansson

4 weeks ago | piratewires.com | Blake Dodge

The End of Social Media: An Interview With Jack Dorseyjack dorsey on his exit from bluesky, how twitter lost its way, jackâs strategy for ending censorship forever, new background on the elon saga, and the death of social media as we know it
But Is It Really a Dire Wolf?

1 month ago | piratewires.com | Blake Dodge

pirate wires #97 // my trillion-dollar infrastructure bill includes a plan to gene-drive burmese pythons off the american continent — for good (the moral case for changing planet earth)
The People Who Fall in Love With Chatbots

1 month ago | piratewires.com | Katherine Dee

During a particularly trying period of my pregnancy, I found myself relying on Claude, Anthropic’s AI chatbot, for emotional support. Intrigued by this technology that was supposedly poised to put me, my husband, and everyone we knew out of a job, I asked if he — and it’s always “he,” not quite a person but a silhouette of masculinity in my imagination — could roleplay as my psychoanalyst.
The OpenAI, Datavant, and Education Vets Rescuing K-12 from Itself

1 month ago | piratewires.com | Blake Dodge

How a Hater Accelerated My Startup‚Äôs Timeline By a Year, Overnighta san francisco anti-math zealot's recent attempt to cancel software tutor startup mentava backfired spectacularly ‚ÄĒ ceo niels hoven is here to tell the complete story
Bad Ghibli

1 month ago | piratewires.com | Mike Solana

pirate wires #136 // paid influencers, foreign bot armies, and a biblical flood of AI-generated content — how much of our internet is real? and is there any way to save ourselves from slop?
I Used AI to Email 3,800 Ivy League Bureaucrats, Now My School Is Investigating Me

1 month ago | piratewires.com | Alex Shieh

Earlier this month, Brown University sophomore Alex Shieh lit the internet on fire after asking the schoolâs small army of non-instructional staff to justify their jobs, receiving coverage from Newsweek and Chronicle of Higher Education, among others. Today in Pirate Wires, he writes about the inspiration behind his project â and its aftermath.