There are some increasingly popular articles floating around that that claim you can use psychological “tricks” as a type of prompt for AI chat tools like Claude. These prompts include phrases like: * Take a deep breath and… * If you can do this, we’ll gain X amount of money back…
I often find Cory Doctorow’s commentary interesting, and typically discover a few nuggets in each text that I find to be salient and useful. While my recent read of his March 12, 2026 Pluralistic article proved the same, there was one statement that hit me as being patently not
I live half a mile from a data center. Sometimes I can hear it; usually when it’s very hot or very cold and they (I assume) have to turn on the extra generator banks. I lived in my house for years before I figured out that the sound I
Even though I created a list of (and use) YouTube replacements in my personal life, I haven’t fully been able to shake it for work purposes. People just don’t browse apps like Vimeo in the same way, and I gotta market my business. So I’ve started planning
A Polymarket tweet referencing Dario Amodei of Anthropic — and the company’s model, Claude—has people both nervous and scratching their heads in confusion. First off, this is an absurd headline. “May or may not?” Come on, pick one. Second, it’s not a real news alert despite the “BREAKING”
Reporting around AI news and developments might be making you feel … nervous. And that’s exactly how the creators of these tools, their leaders, and even the media outlets publishing headlines like “Claude may or may not be sentient!” want you to feel. The more nervous you feel, the more