Matthew Rosenberg

Moderation isn’t necessarily my strong suit. After all, I was a drug addict. But when every single thing we do is about optimization or self-improvement, doesn’t the joy evaporate? I am not suggesting we live like the French or Italians, but maybe it’s time to step back and realize that a meal, especially with good company, is one of life's last re... See more

What would become possible if we could guarantee that data policies were always respected? If code could work with your most sensitive data without the code's creator ever being able to see it? If every app was remotely attestable—verifiably trustworthy regardless of who made it?

These aren't just theoretical questions anymore. The building blocks e... See more

I would like to use this space to trot out a not-that-groundbreaking theory I’ve been nursing for some time, as we’ve seen the rise and fall (though that’s debatable) of avocado trendiness, and now the chokehold that matcha and pistachio-flavored things (see: Dubai chocolate) at the intersection of food + the internet. Is it just because……….the alg... See more

“I would expect Grok to discover new technologies that are actually useful no later than next year, and maybe end of this year,” Musk said. “It might discover new physics next year... Let that sink in.”

but their message to casual browsers is clear with every App Store pop up and tedious design choice: We fucking hate you

This June, Cloudflare says it found that Google’s crawler scraped its websites 14 times for every referral it gave them. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s crawler scraped websites 17,000 times for every one referral, while Anthropic scraped websites 73,000 times for every referral.

My suspicion, my awful awful newfound theory, is that there are people with a sincere and even kind of innocent belief that we are all just picking winners, in everything: that ideology, advocacy, analysis, criticism, affinity, even taste and style and association are essentially predictions. That what a person tries to do, the essential task of a ... See more

Future-proofing my blog for an AI audience