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Wild Speculation Regarding the OpenAI Fiasco

First, I feel I need to make one thing clear: I'm nobody and have no special inside information. I'm just a random terminally-online guy who spends way too much time on Twitter and Hacker News. Like everyone else who fits that description, I've been…

Quitting while you're ahead

I often wonder, how many actors are there who quietly disappeared beacause they made a bunch of money from one lucky success? Hollywood, from the perspective of a layperson, is a lot like a lottery. You throw your chips in, by moving to LA, going to…

A Manifesto for the Metaverse

What is the Metaverse? Wired tried to figure it out recently and the results were inconclusive. Where is the metaverse? How do we log in to it? Nobody knows! But we kind of have an idea of what we think it should be. We read Snow Crash. Futurama…

Michael Keaton is Underappreciated

Two things. Michael Keaton starred in the film Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) in 2014. Three years later in 2017 he played The Vulture in Spiderman: Homecoming. That is, a literal Bird-Man. Do you expect me to believe that's a…

Fix a Pothole

The goal of media is to make every problem, your problem. — Naval Ravikant Today we hear about every problem around the world as it happens. We also have Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and countless other ways to voice our opinions and propose solutions…

Trouble Comes To Small Town

There's a certain type of movie I find that I really like. It's not exactly a genre. In fact it can exist in just about any genre. For lack of better options, I'm calling it "Trouble Comes To Small Town". The basic premise is this: There's a small…

Things that are real

I just watched the documentary "Behind the Curve" on Netflix. It explores the Flat Earth movement and their efforts to prove that there is a massive global (or discal?) conspiracy to conceal the fact that the world is actually flat, and may or may…

Some Things Are Bad and They Don't Have To Be

Humanity is bad at some things because they're hard. Space travel, for instance. We can barely get off our planet at all. We got up to the rock orbiting us a few times and it was a big deal. Our current major project is to get to the planet right…

Let's Fix the News

As another US presidential election draws near, the brokenness of the media is becoming ever more glaring. It's not exactly a new phenomenon. Since at least the sinking of the USS Maine the media have been known to put their own interests above those…

KotSF is now Tilting at Windmills

According to WHOIS, I first registered the domain kotsf.com, a little over 12 years ago on August 18, 2008. Since then it's been my catch-all for various and sundry personal projects. Originally, it pointed to a computer in my spare bedroom and…

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