A veritable horde of pokémon were also loitering near other highly sensitive national security and intelligence facilities around the nation. “People were doing dumb shit with Pokémon Go, like playing in the parking lot at Fort Meade ,” the headquarters of the National Security Agency (NSA), recalled a former agency official. “Because there were apparently like some super-rare shiny pokémons or something, so people were wandering campus with their phones up .” In the Venn diagram of nerdery, there was a considerable crossover between technically inclined intelligence personnel at the NSA, CIA, and other national security agencies, and Pokémon fans. And that worried their superiors.
- People : Hiring for the future. Wage collapse? Layered speeds. Blurred generational divides. Pay2getajob. Identiti(es). Gamer in residence, in hospitals.
- Tech : Buying US soldiers data. Pokemon Go and the CIA/NSA.
- Life : Eating teff. Life comes from LUCA.
- Business : Actual reinvention of business models. Are(n)as for growth. Dermatology rise.
- AI : Impact of AI on human thought. AI multi-agent changing work (PDF report). AI generated homogeneity. Insights on ChatGPT adoption (and PDF). Rapid adoption of GenAI (PDF). Anthropic’s autoeval checks. GenZ use of AI. Good enough prompts.
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