Dave Infante

WELCOME TO NEW STACK CITY x4

since our regrettable trillionaire is still trying to buy american democracy i thought it was time to bring back this classic from last year's #teslatakedown:

WELCOME TO NEW STACK CITY x4

if anybody knows @emily.gorcen.ski tell her to answer my email so i can mail her some of these:

WELCOME TO NEW STACK CITY x4

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welcome to new stack city

the third preorder sold out late last week. i'm gonna take a beat and fill all these orders before opening up another. but...

welcome to new stack city

This is one of the main reasons I filed this column in October 2025 column in @chlookout.bsky.social calling for a car-free Halloween in Church Hill. It was too late at that point to pull it off for that year. But...

This year, a group of neighbors came together to make it happen. And folks, we fucking did. In just four days, we're shutting down East Broad Street to cars for three whole blocks of prime trick-or-treating. More info here:

how compromised is lifestyle journalism these days? well, you see, pr firms are now developing platforms specifically designed to match sellout hacks with hotels happy to put them up, and then *openly pitching that platform* as a neat-o new service.

"Heineken has urged British pubs and bars to adapt to the booming use of weight-loss drugs or risk losing ​customers and revenue, according to a company presentation seen by Reuters, in a rare acknowledgement from a major alcohol maker that the medicines pose threat to beer sales."

mom can you come pick me up they're rebranding "wellness" in the most grating and repulsive manner imaginable

finally, a path to sustainable growth for fingers has revealed itself

i don't think i would know what to think about the anthropic ipo (which seems to be quite promising financially, based on the folks i follow on here who read s-1s for a living) if i hadn't read 'blood in the machine,' @bcmerchant.bsky.social's excellent book on the luddites.

i can do this all day

i don't think i would know what to think about the anthropic ipo (which seems to be quite promising financially, based on the folks i follow on here who read s-1s for a living) if i hadn't read 'blood in the machine,' @bcmerchant.bsky.social's excellent book on the luddites.

the answer is pretty clarifying for thinking about the political power of transformative technology, i think. there are vast fortunes to be made stealing from the workers of the world, and political systems are rarely equipped to stop it even if individual politicians want to (which they rarely do)

i don't think i would know what to think about the anthropic ipo (which seems to be quite promising financially, based on the folks i follow on here who read s-1s for a living) if i hadn't read 'blood in the machine,' @bcmerchant.bsky.social's excellent book on the luddites.

idk man. it would have been nice if these companies all just collapsed under the weight of their own ambition and i guess some of them still might but so long as anthropic remains profitable it is doing so on the back of labor it did not pay for and i think that’s bad.

i don't think i would know what to think about the anthropic ipo (which seems to be quite promising financially, based on the folks i follow on here who read s-1s for a living) if i hadn't read 'blood in the machine,' @bcmerchant.bsky.social's excellent book on the luddites.

this is unbearable but my god if lula pulls it out