Alex Doyle

Celebrities (and other) who are not, in fact, me - a thread:

Makes you think

The patron saint of vaccination....pooped on (a lot). #metaphor

Important to note AI played a critical role in advancing the vaccine—really a testament to how AI can and should be used for good.

Love this. It's incredibly satisfying (and inspiring) to watch people excel at their craft.

In thinking about the right historical analogy for AI, I've become very interested in the early history of electricity in the early 1900s. With early 20th century electricity, you had: - famously feuding private inventors creating/scaling the early technology (Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse) - a set of de facto monopolies who insisted that their technology was different in kind from other products and required special levels of corporate concentration - a period of sluggish growth, followed by a surge in commercial demand that prevented the boom from falling into the classic definition of an infrastructure "bubble" - a financial mania around electricity—e.g., the holding companies of the early 1900s, many of which did blow up after the 1929 crash - an inevitable showdown with the federal government about regulation in the 1930s, which ultimately resulted in a lot of regulated monopolies If you think that the AI buildout might result in some companies crashing and burning, without the entire thing becoming a classic Carlota Perez-style capital bubble, and furthermore believe that we are on an inevitable path toward a new regulatory regime that treats the frontier labs as regulated monopolies, I think you should definitely get curious about the 100-year-old history of electricity. derekthompson.org/p/the-ai-vibe-…

Underappreciated life hack is keeping a sense of humor even as things crumble around you.

I figured out why the Artemis stream felt so different It's because for the first time in decades, we collectively witnessed something that was untouched by politics, celebrities and influencers

Can we all agree that in a world of influencers, Z-listers, TikToks, badly acted ads, brand collabs, people filming themselves crying…the Artemis livestream of 4 middle-aged scientists doing their jobs is genuinely the best most authentic content of the century? Thanks @NASA🌚

@DKThomp Who will use the word 'malaise' first?

america's not ok three separate surveys -- the umich consumer sentiment survey, the general social survey, and the gallup world happiness survey -- all put US self-reported sentiment at record-low levels

A few observations on Caine's briefing today. The numbers are striking. The questions they raise are more interesting. A 🧵.

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These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.

I’ve dreamed my entire life about watching a Final 4 live! I just got here and got to my seat, and based on the view I’ll have to keep dreaming. I can’t see shit up here

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“I have two versions of outlook and neither of them are working” is actually a generational NASA quote now. Not quite One Small Step but every generation lives in a different world

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

Good morning, world! 🌎 We have spectacular new high-resolution images of our home planet, all of us looking back through the Orion capsule window at our Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon.

BREAKING🚨: This is might be the most important photo of this century taken by @AJamesMcCarthy “We do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

See you soon London!

Our Kaori era comes to an end. 😭 #FigureSkating #WorldFigure