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• @kbandersen Kurt Andersen on x

  Very good @ezraklein piece on AI, including the bots' annoying intrusive goody-goody assistant traits. Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]

• @jfallows James Fallows on bluesky

  Have been away from info-sphere for past four+ days, on extended family business.  (Including joining HUGE AustinTX turnout yesterday.)  —  On re-connecting, this part of @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social piece rings true to my experience. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...  [image]

• @martinsfp @martinsfp on bluesky

  “I think the young will allow themselves to be known to their A.I.s in ways that will make their elders shudder.”

• @rusty.todayintabs.com Rusty Foster on bluesky

  This piece is probably as close as Ezra Klein will ever come to saying “AI is loser shit” and I appreciate it www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

• @fiona-webster22 @fiona-webster22 on bluesky

  1/ Did you see this piece by Ezra Klein?  I read it shortly after reading your own, and I found it a useful extension of the concepts you laid out.

• @thiagokrause Thiago Krause on bluesky

  “For me, the arrival of an idea is less generative than the work that goes into chiseling that idea into something publishable.  This whole essay began as a vague thought about A.I. and McLuhan.  If I have gained anything in this process, it has been in the toil that followed ins…

• @mitpress @mitpress on bluesky

  “The Narcissus myth does not convey any idea that Narcissus fell in love with anything he regarded as himself,” McLuhan writes.  Its real point is that “men at once become fascinated by any extension of themselves in any material other than themselves.”

• @mbkplus Mike Boylan-Kolchin on bluesky

  This is grim stuff.  —  www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...  [image]

• r/ezraklein r on reddit

  Marshall McLuhan Was Right About Claude, Too

• @katherinemiller Katherine Miller on x

  “The effect is to constantly reinforce a certain version of myself. My self is quite settled, but what if it wasn't?” https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @markfollman Mark Follman on x

  Essential reading from @ezraklein on the disquieting atmosphere around advancing AI. Resonates with a lot of conversations I've been having lately with tech/adjacent friends here in the Bay Area... including big Qs about what all this will mean for kids https://www.nytimes.com/..…

• @mroth78 Michael S Roth on x

  “Azhar describes his efforts to safeguard “the space where ideas arrive before they're shaped.” But how many of us will put in such careful..effort to protect our most generative spaces of thought..[or know]which spaces should be protected?” https://www.nytimes.com/... @NYTOpinio…

• @k8brannen Kate Brannen on x

  “The work I am doing now, struggling through yet another draft of this essay, is the work that deepens my thinking for later.” The important work of human thought. @ezraklein: https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @casparhenderson Caspar Henderson on bluesky

  “In the past, what I saw was how the technology was changing; this time, what I saw was how the people were being changed by the technology.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

• @emmaclairefoley @emmaclairefoley on bluesky

  I'm trying to read more popular opining on AI, and it really does feel like decades of genteel punch-pulling have trained real human writers out of the critical thinking and writing skills that might help them interpret what's going on here www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...  [image…

• @jtlg James Grimmelmann on bluesky

  It's Roko's Basilisk.  You've invented Roko's Basilisk.  —  www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...  [image]

• @jasondovemark Jason Dove Mark on bluesky

  It seems that in the all too near future people will be divided between those who insist on thinking for themselves and those who have succumbed to “cognitive surrender”  —  www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

• @deborahavant Deborah Avant on bluesky

  I don't always love Ezra Klein, but this is a thoughtful and important essay.  —  www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

• @malrog Malcolm Quinn on bluesky

  I don't think McLuhan is going to be much help, because his emphasis is on how humans are changed by technology.  It is better to forget the technology and focus on how AI assumes a place within a cultural and social scene, as a reader, a co-author, an editor etc.

• @dbcurren Don Curren on bluesky

  “The #environments set up by different #media are not just containers for people; they are #processes which shape people.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on bluesky

  “What makes A.I. truly persuasive isn't that it praises our ideas or insights, it's that it restates and extends them in a more compelling form than we initially offered” - Ezra Klein  —  This nails it.  AI chatbots don't simply praise you, they make you feel smarter than you are…

• @paulgp.com Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham on bluesky

  “In Pullman's trilogy, the daemons are bonded to the person, an expression of soul or psyche.  That's not true for A.I. systems, which are ultimately controlled by corporations that seek profit, power and market dominance.  The possibilities for manipulation and malfeasance are e…