In the name of being the change we want to see re: bringing back the Blog Era,
@maria and I did an Awl-style yakkin' post about AI prose and the cretins who want to make it the future, and I guess also what is to be done about all that.
https://popula.com/2023/04/30/yakkin-about-chatgpt-with-david-roth/Yakkin’ About ChatGPT, with David Roth
plus a SURPRISE BONUS
PopulaIt feels like kind of a sad time online overall, just in terms of seeing a bunch of the last decade's stuff either resolving towards zero or eating shit because of idiotic ownership. I think there's a future for this, and I hope Defector and Popula both will be part of that. I don't know what it will look like, but I sense it's going to have to be a No Venture Capitalists Allowed affair.