🌻 conversations on culture in the AI age
my Substack talk and conversation with Benjamín Labatut
CultureTech
@jasmine’s substack.
An anthropology of disruption, with essays on AI and Silicon Valley culture.
Recent essays
23 of 23🌻 notes on AI, labor, and China
An expansion pack for my NYT story on the "permanent underclass"
🌻 AI populism's warning shots
the battles over AI are no longer just about the tech
🌻 why LLMs are bad writers but good editors
my new Atlantic essay + Claude editor setup
🌻 AI vs. the pentagon
the alignment problem is Pete Hegseth
🌻 my week with the AI populists
a Washington DC scene report
🌻 anthropicology (ft. irene zhang & kai williams)
Dario's essay, Claude Constitution, and more
🌻 claude code psychosis
are your problems software-shaped?
🌻 chinese peptide physiognomy
the new language of bio-acceleration
🌻 what is it like to be a writer?
reflections on my first year of writing full-time
🌻 how to party like an AI researcher
a NeurIPS 2025 scene report
🌻 you're invited: the utopia debates
See me debate AI & taste in SF on December 10
🌻 expanding the market for culture (ft. celine nguyen)
internet autodidacts, writing on Substack, contrarian optimism about AI
🌻 don't take the bait
vice signaling is eating silicon valley
🌻 AI friends too cheap to meter
“Let me date my chatbot I’m almost 30 and doing well”
🌻 how dems lost the future (ft. kelsey piper)
tech vs. trump, authoritarian envy, the case for argument
🌻 are you high-agency or an NPC?
AI anxiety and the new language of silicon valley
🌻 america against china against america
notes on shenzhen, shanghai, and more
🌻 42 notes on AI & work
economic anxiety at the jagged frontier
🌻 we know more than we can tell
july links & scraps
🌻 from counterculture to cyberculture (ft. fred turner)
Stewart Brand, accelerationism, dating apps
🌻 forecasts vs. fiction (ft. daniel kokotajlo)
AI 2027, self-fulfilling prophecies, SF writing workshop
🌻 32 notes on AI & writing
the models must read because they cannot live