Pirate Wires

2 days 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

1 week 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)

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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

3 weeks 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?