Once you’re *in* BART, it’s totally fine and clean. But the plazas are a travesty of human misery and civic failure

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a few general observations from a week that has included a lot of getting yelled at: 1) many to most people still think of AI as chatbots. Chatbots are at this point useful but they are imo perhaps an order of magnitude less useful than agentic AI.

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Country's got a real joy deficit above everything else. Knicks win, World Cup going well until Trump ruined them is proof of that. Just create constant excuses for celebrations and parties. We need excuses to hang out more than we need maybe literally anything else, economically.

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Forget hotel ballrooms. Our AI x Journalism Summit was in a former warehouse, with no cushioned chairs and rooms where people sometimes sat on the floor. It fit the vibe we were going for: Not perfection, but ready to build. hackshackers.com/go/2026-05-u... hackshackers.com/go/2026-05-r...

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This week, I was in Baltimore for the @hackshackers.com AI + Journalism Summit! I'm just a no-code hack with just enough python knowledge to build basic scrapers, but I’m back in Brooklyn with a head full of ideas! Thanks again @pcheung630.bsky.social & @burtherman.com!

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