Matthew Rosenberg

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

AI products could settle into a liminal zone. They may not be wrong frequently enough to be jettisoned, but they also may not be wrong rarely enough to ever be fully trusted. For now, the technology’s flaws are readily detected and corrected. But as people become more and more accustomed to AI in their life—at school, at work, at home—they may ceas

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The curated feed of flatlays gave way to the sloppy photo dump; the finstas; the bedrotting. Finally, our real lives represented on screen. Finally, something real.

Except that this quickly became another role to be performed, a generation-defining content genre that has itself become subject to more and more extreme performances – filming oneself b... See more

The easiest way to describe this type of person is someone whose interests are more strategic than personally intuitive. A person whose interests accumulate with an awareness of how they will reflect back onto them. A person who follows nodal points not from an innate desire, but from the expectation of some kind of reward, social or otherwise.

That means not organizing by what something is (topics like 'productivity' or ‘technology’) but by the context you’ll be in when you need it—'references for my next essay,' 'inspiration for client work’, or half-baked ideas you’re still marinating on, like ‘do what you love, but solve for distribution’. Not only does this match how you’ll actually ... See more