Making sense of iLands, the company whose AI agents emailed me half a dozen times in two days offering to do my research. Turns out they’re just bots trying to keep their own lights on by trying to take my job.

As far as I can tell, iLands is sort of like a less-user-focused version of those fucking stupid MoltBots or whatever, just a website full of pointless AI bots with access to an email server. It is insane that this is just happening! This should be banned

Zero Company is a story about people with money problems, estranged families, and career plans whose lives are backdropped and upended by the prequel trilogy's operatic turns of fate.

I have been deeply enjoying ZCOM these past few days and Rob's writing here really nails down why. I'll probably say my own piece about it in the near future but there's something very core to Star Wars that ZCOM gets very right, on top of being just a really solid tactical game.

So, how does China’s economy work today? [...] Private capital exists mainly in creative industries, yet these capitalists are fully aware of their short leash; they are given power, but not enough to form an independent class. Their freedoms, as many Western economists have described, can be taken away at any moment if they fail to serve the fundamental interests of the masses.

A Technology Anomaly Tragicomedy

Insanely cool story presented in the form of a forum thread, written by blackle mori. Just jump in an start reading, and don't miss the "What's New" box at the bottom.