Tech editor @fastcompany | Email: mufberg at fastcompany dot com
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27 Mar 2023
“Don’t nail a tiny picnic table to a tree,” they said.
“The squirrels will never go for the corn,” they said.
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Jun 10
These things are bound to happen when you name your son Controversial Valedictorian
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Controversial Valedictorian's graduation speech sparks controversy as heckler is cut off trib.al/HEFFRVW
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Uber drivers allege that the company has broken the promise it made in Prop 22 to create a fair deactivation process and, therefore, the law doesn't apply to them fastcompany.com/91553175/ube…
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New from me: A literal federal takeover of OpenAI or Anthropic remains highly unlikely, at least outside some extraordinary crisis. But a softer version of nationalization is becoming easier to imagine.
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For nearly a decade, a small baseball field outside Austin has become a magnet for musicians, artists, designers, and baseball obsessives. I wrote about how it came to draw in everyone from Kevin Morby to Beto O’Rourke
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How Austin’s sandlot baseball scene became a magnet for indie rockers, filmmakers, designers, and brands. f-st.co/Bw6fEEs
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this is how I would probably design a sink (that is a bad thing)
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‘The Comeback’ creator Michael Patrick King warns AI may be creativity’s extinction event f-st.co/wIoafeP
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NEW: the agriculture department plans to use grok and sponsor xAI's llm product for critical cloud security reviews. the move is a major win in xAI's quest to get government officials using its chatbot. @USDA says it's "proud" to be using the tool. link in reply:
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Mar 25
A 70-something artist just uploaded most of his oeuvre to Hugging Face. But to what end? I spoke to @hafftka for @FastCompany fastcompany.com/91514741/mic…
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ARC Prize Foundation unveils ARC-AGI-3, an AI benchmark with simple video-game-like scenarios designed to measure on-the-fly reasoning rather than memory recall (@thesullivan / Fast Company)
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Mar 13
from @Max_Uf 's interview with the mayor of Phoenix
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Mar 11
Scoop: An Oxford University researcher says confusing messaging means they were able to access GitHub repository metadata about what colleagues at the university were working on - so much so they could identify ongoing projects. My latest for @FastCompany fastcompany.com/91507219/cha…
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Mar 5
What this Texas Republican primary revealed about the politics of AI data centers f-st.co/rHdUxbm
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Mar 3
wrote about a TX company that sells AI to districts to flag books deemed problematic — and why some people think the company itself is the real problem
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The startup that turned Texas’s book ban law into big business f-st.co/bTnFxKs
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RT @rebheilweil: new: i chatted with palantir employees about the ad campaign running against an ex-palantir employee, shaming him for work…
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19 Sep 2025
"Every major figure in tech right now is trying to fund movies," @jasonjoyride tells @FastCompany. Who? Everyone from @ssankar to @a16z. Why? They're sick of Hollywood dystopias. But Jason Carman is *making* techno-optimist films. His cool story here: fastcompany.com/91406765/jas…
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13 Sep 2025
Leo Ufburg (‘28, PA) 📝
RHH C gets on top of FB for 1B to LF. Natural feel in the box w/ uphill bat path.
1B: EV: 88mph
#PhillyFall | @PBT_BellRingers
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11 Sep 2025
In @FastCompany, I offer a glimpse at the impossible logistics of becoming a journalist and writing a book in the joint, and how I used the tech from a controversial company to build a career.
h/t my editor @Max_Uf
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11 Sep 2025
This @JohnJLennon1 essay offers a searing look at how fragile, tightly controlled tech access shapes life behind bars. Please do give it a read. fastcompany.com/91399196/wri…
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