Category: Technology

Amazon’s HQ2 Is Immoral

By MATT SHAPIRO When Amazon announced the result of their search for cities to host their HQ2 expansion, I’ll confess the result was a bit of a surprise to me. I live in Seattle,...

Stone the Algorithms

By MATT SHAPIRO In 2010, convicted murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner was shot to death. We’ll never know who killed Gardner because the identity of the gunmen is protected by the state of Utah because...

Print Your Blog

By MATT SHAPIRO This summer while visiting my parents, my mother gave me a piece of wood. It’s not an impressive piece of wood, just a slab with a lip on either side extending...

The Myth of the Hustle

None of this is going to make me rich or even make me marginally more attractive to an employer. That was another lie.

The Tribes of Climate Change

By MATT SHAPIRO This last week, I had a small conversation with Jason Emory Parker about climate change. I would say Emory is on “the left” and I’m on “the right” on this issue, but we...

Robots Need Grace Too

Within 24 hours of “her” big launch on Twitter and other social messaging platforms, Tay (the AI bot developed by Microsoft researchers*) learned all sorts of things from us humans. Primarily that we are awful.