what openai/anthropic/google do is about as good as hanging out the product for free. 99% of the value is captured by the consumers an understated fact about technological revolutions and capitalism generally

My cartoon for the Guardian Books autumn reading special.

Sure, the Rivian Amazon delivery van is cool. But this e-bike with electric boosted trailer I just saw in Manhattan is WAY cooler.

It really annoys me when people use the wrong word and don’t have the humidity to admit it

My latest cartoon for New Scientist

Moses Kagan Read the paper, things have never been worse. Read history, things have never been better

ChatGPT won’t kill consulting because you don’t pay the consultants for the recommendation You pay them for the branded rubber stamp + political air-cover for the strategy you were going to implement in the first place

Manu Joseph says the quiet part loudly.

They could have picked up couple of passengers stranded on ISS.

Public health crisis in Pune.

This is a mural on Ganeshkhind Road, where they recently cut dozens of trees to widen the road.

Has been said before but really is galling that the secret to a happy life is to be quite disciplined with your daily schedule

Seeing like a state

33 years to correct a typographical error in a judgement. 33 years! From an op-ed by Mr Vijay Kelkar in Mint

Tip - If you want to exchange a product on Amazon, it's less hassle to return the product and order a new one.

Elon Musk Meanwhile...

Austen Allred In Wall Street (1987) one reason audience knows this guy is unfathomably wealthy is he has a) a cell phone b) which is small enough to carry. Hardware progress is a dangerous thing to short.

How about neither?

Wisdom of crowd

They are going to learn Marathi idiom वड्याच तेल वांग्यावर काढणे the hard way.