Adam Rogers

@jetjocko
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Senior Tech Correspondent/Insider. Ex Wired. Science, tech, weird futures. I wrote Proof: The Science of Booze and Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern.
Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modernhttps://www.amazon.com/Full-Spectrum-Science-Color-Modern/dp/1328518906
Proof: The Science of Boozehttps://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E9FYSZ0/
Mehttps://adam-rogers.net
Adam RogersJul 22, 2024

How do I know Marc Andreessen is wrong for supporting Donald Trump? Because of a smart tech blogger named Marc Andreessen.

https://www.businessinsider.com/marc-andreessens-endorsement-donald-trump-tech-industry-silicon-valley-2024-7

Marc Andreessen on why Marc Andreessen is dumb to back Donald Trump

Marc Andreessen 2024 is backing Trump. Marc Andreessen 2007 thinks that's stupid.

Insider
Adam RogersJul 1, 2024
ShoqJun 25, 2024

Remember all those years when we shrieked “Don’t read the comments!”?

Well, according to Adam Rogers’ (@jetjocko) reporting, Gen-Z bases much of its news gathering and fact-finding on them. When it cares about facts at all. #BeVeryAfraid

https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-most-trusted-news-source-online-comment-sections-google-2024-6

Gen Z's most trusted source for news: online comments sections

A new study reveals how Gen Zers behave in their natural habitat: the internet

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Show threadAdam RogersJul 1, 2024
@shoq thanks, pal. Much appreciated.
Adam RogersJun 4, 2024
Some economists and regulators fear the boom in hyperscaled data centers is actually just another way for big players—Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, with 65% of that market—to maintain oligopolistic control of the AI startup ecosystem. https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-google-microsoft-ai-future-data-centers-monopoly-tech-industry-2024-6
The scary secret behind the boom in data centers

How Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are monopolizing our AI future

Insider
Adam RogersAug 31, 2023
Dan HonAug 31, 2023

Most famous non-existent ports of Doom for fictional computers:

* Doom for the command-and-control central computer used by the Harvesters
* Doom for the holographic navigational computer used by the Engineers
* Doom for Ziggy
* Doom for WOPR
* Doom for Colossus

Show threadAdam RogersAug 31, 2023
…absent evidence of a strong link to hangover, and absent a good study showing the enzyme produced in a human gut, and absent a good study showing a reduction in perceived symptoms *and* objective markers like inflammatory response? I’m skeptical.
Show threadAdam RogersAug 31, 2023
…and it’s *possible* that these folks have made a bacteria that makes an enzyme that breaks down acetaldehyde. But whether they have it packaged in such a way that it survives the trip through your GI tract and delivers that enzyme in quantities large enough to break down the acetaldehyde we make after drinking? Well…
Show threadAdam RogersAug 31, 2023
@clive it’s *possible* that acetaldehyde is a cause of hangover symptoms—nobody really knows. Acetaldehyde is so fleeting that it’s hard to get blood levels, so as far as I know no one has ever associated it cleanly with hangover….
Adam RogersAug 4, 2023
Jennifer OuelletteAug 4, 2023
What’s going on with the reports of a room-temperature superconductor? Rumors are flying of confirmation, but the situation is still frustratingly vague. https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/whats-going-on-with-the-reports-of-a-room-temperature-superconductor/
What’s going on with the reports of a room-temperature superconductor?

Rumors are flying of confirmation, but the situation is still frustratingly vague.

Ars Technica
Show threadAdam RogersJul 31, 2023
@clive or even if the technical papers that mention risk have.