link.dump.5.11.2026
data centers, antibiotics, and loser tyrants
I read a lot of random stuff. Link Dumps are the things I think are worth remembering. You can always check out my Link Dump Tag if you’re looking for even more to read and please forward to anyone else you think might find these interesting.
Tyrants are losing wars. I think Noah Smith is being pretty optimistic with what he’s seeing here but it makes for an interesting read.
Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They’re the Bad Guys. Always an interesting question to ask one’s self.
The Fading Trump Presidency. Maybe? Finally? Does it even matter?
Interesting insights into prompt engineering, some stuff I haven’t ever seen.
Worlds most complex machine. Sometimes bets pay off handsomely.
Antibiotics are an economic failure. Thought-provoking lens into the limitations of capitalism when it comes to something that CURES versus something that simple MANAGES. Way more money in chronic disease than curable diseases. Almost like maybe the incentives for healthy don’t quite match up with capitalism, eh?
Details on how ChatGPT serves ads. It’s been an unwelcome and noticeable change for my usage but it’s hard to argue against a company using this type of thing to try to turn a profit. The internet doesn’t work without ads. Hell does the economy even work without ads to promote the consume-consume-consume world?
Very detailed write-up on how AI datacenters and rural areas (hey, like where I live!) are coming into conflict. The great American data center divide
How American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were. Great graphs and details in this piece.
Meta bled out 20 million users apparently. I’ve grown more and more disillusioned with how obvious the commodification of attention has become in the past year or two so I am curious about the underlying reason for this.
Reddit is forcing people off its website and into its app? I’m not even sure why, honestly. Presumably the website itself will still work as I use that as much as the smartphone app.