Mitch's Blog

One of the oldest known archeological sites on Earth, 12,000-year-old Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, meets up with conspiracy theorists and Joe Rogan. www.kpbs.org/news/inte…

RFK Jr. wants a wearable on every America. That future’s not as healthy as he thinks. www.theverge.com/analysis/…

Victoria Song talks from personal experience how wearables can lead to obsessive thinking and create more problems than they solve. “My first three years with wearables wrecked my relationship with food.”

Song doesn’t even mention other important issues: RFK Jr. is a malevolent lunatic, possibly more dangerous than even Trump. RFK’s deranged theories about health could potentially kill millions of people. And he wants to put a surveillance device on every American.

Recent antitrust fervor is millionaire-on-billionaire violence. By Cory Doctorow. pluralistic.net/2025/08/0…

OpenAI is an arm’s-length subsidiary of Microsoft, and OpenAI needs GPT5 to convince Microsoft to keep the money flowing and not just swallow OpenAI outright. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/0…

“…. watching otherwise “progressive” people start to parrot jokes about like “Clanker with a hard R” and “screws will not replace us” and whatnot is like 🫥 “ www.tumblr.com/reverieau…

“Super weird to have innocuously added a silly personal anecdote to a post you didn’t realize was super popular… Only to have it cross your dash a week later and find out that like 12,000 people think you’re lying. ¯_(ツ)_/¯” www.tumblr.com/dduane/79…

Coming Soon: Your Professional Decline. On kottke.org.