Christopher Mims
@mims
WSJ tech columnist. Author of How to AI, a bullshit-free guide to what AI is actually good for -- and also how our overestimation of its abilities can lead us astray.
For those of you who joined Twitter in its earliest days, congrats on 20 years of being A Poster
feels like "war over energy will make the price of everything skyrocket" and "we need to eradicate inflation" are directly contradictory endeavors
Used Threads for a few minutes to remind myself what it's like and it was a weird mix of clickbait and accounts I want to see but which are getting almost no engagement. If that was the only place I hung out on the internet I think I'd believe the Dead Internet Theory
I mean this sounds like precisely what Bluesky, which is after all still a business, is trying to become
I'm sorry, but we spent how much on Twinkies? www.wsj.com/business/ret...
SpaceX stock drops below IPO opening price despite flood of bullish Wall Street ratings "SpaceX's ambitions — and potential impact on humanity — are bigger than any company's we've ever seen" says JPMorgan Chase
It blows my mind that e-book sales are actually declining, even though e-book readers are better, more varied, and more capable than ever. But not better than printed books, it seems! I can't think of any other medium where the latest way to consume it hasn't won.
What happened to Mark Zuckerberg's chain? www.patreon.com/MaxRead/post...
these things are 9 feet long and we're only just seeing them in the wild, in case you were wondering if the ocean is still full of rarely-observed wonders / horrors
just a partial list of things I've seen YouTube creators attach their li'l mics to
It's funny because I think in the western mind an abacus is something foreign but here's an etching from 1503 of Europeans using something halfway between an abacus and what's now known as a "counting board." This kind of thing goes back to the Sumerians and almost certainly predates writing!
You're not hearing about big wins in renewable energy in the U.S. because people building this infrastructure do not want to attract the attention of the Trump administration. But they're happening. www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...
I have so many questions about this fake review that popped up on Google Maps
Head of national security commission of Iran's parliament: "The number of American casualties is already far higher than Trump confirms... This time, the war won't be limited to the region."
no offense to ipad + keyboard users but this combo is the PT Cruiser of personal computing devices
I'm just wading into this so feel free to tell me how I'm wrong, but it seems pretty obvious what's driving the modern literacy crisis...?
Absolutely bonkers story from a sailor, in the comments of a PBS video about rogue waves -- 10 of which are forming in the world's oceans at any given moment! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCUG...