Feb 24, 2024
Hey readers, it's the 42nd issue of the White Pill, your favorite newsletter covering developments at the frontier of space, science, engineering, AI, and more.
Also — slight change in this newsletter. Instead of the Space section, we're starting it with a plug for a piece we recently published on the White Pill, Aaron Slodov's Techno-Industrial Manifesto. While detailed and somewhat technical, his piece advocates for the unfortunately rare position that we're pursuing a post-industrial society at our own peril. I view the piece as an extremely important update to the narrative (and, of course, a white pill). Please give it a read.
Also, I was on the Tech Policy Podcast on Wednesday discussing why we publish the White Pill, and the most mind-bending items from some of our past issues. The episode is an hour long — listen here.
a single editor repeatedly inserted the same "authoritarian" framing into multiple wikipedia articles, creating an illusion of consensus and shaping the record that now informs chatgpt and google
every few years, the same sad contingent of ruby on rails malcontents tries to cancel me. but now that the usual threats aren't working, they're upping the ante
a brief history of clownery against cute, unassuming autonomous vehicles — and why waymo always wins