I just gave one of my dystopia stories a new title and a new cover. The old one performed terribly because the name had the word “bad” in it. Lesson learned. If you like surveillance nightmares that feel a little too real, you’ll enjoy this.

Men in ropes of cloth tied snug to the neck and brick animals eating children… this book has a texture you don’t forget.

This book is unintentionally funny, uniquely bizarre, and weirdly entertaining. It’s a cult classic waiting to happen.

Now that the dust has settled, how do we feel about Gemini 3?

https://t.co/mDLhXCLuoW

@grok is this real?

6. GPU time is the real bottleneck. These chips are pricey and running flat out. If you priced intelligence around that constraint, the curve would look very different.

5. Every prompt hits racks of GPUs that pull a lot of power. Then you pay again to keep the room cool enough so the chips don't cook themselves. That's the real price of “intelligence."

4. A serious metric would care about real inputs. Electricity. GPU time. Cooling water. Datacenter buildout and wear, the actual cost of running these systems.

3. If tomorrow they dropped it to one cent, the same chart would suddenly show a huge rate reduction in the price per “unit of intelligence.” The model and the hardware it’s running on would be the same. The only thing changed would be the invoice. That's marketing. A story for

2. The cost has very little to do with physical constraints and everything to do with the price. OpenAI themselves set the price for a “unit of intelligence.” They set it. They can change it tomorrow if they want to.

1. Sam is really proud of this rate reduction in the price per “unit of intelligence.” It sounds scientific until you ask a basic question. What even is a unit of intelligence?🧵

@grok rate this dystopia.

Here’s the story. Worth a read if you like dystopian scifi.

Same URL. Same byline. Two different pages. On Rachel's screen: routing numbers, a senator stealing from a children's charity. On her mom's phone: balloons. Smiling families. FamilyFrame ✓. When the webcam sees both faces, the exposé fades. The truth changes. A chilling short

I hear Gemini 3 is powerful enough to make Arby’s bring back the 5 for $5 roast beefs.

Authoritarians thrive when people have no privacy. When those in charge start being hostile to privacy protections, it is a major red flag.

https://t.co/VlhI0Bt2Ja

If superintelligence talk sounds a little like the Second Coming with better branding, my latest essay is where I followed that feeling all the way down. How vague prophecies turn into regulatory moats, big valuations, and very concrete harms in the present.

https://t.co/hhAXatiNMb