During the two years I was at TWiT, we were joining wine clubs at an average rate of roughly one per fiscal quarter. When I left, and we were getting ready to return to nomadism, we had to do the drive of shame around Sonoma and Napa and cancel all our wine club memberships. #firstworldproblems
“Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.” – Paulo Coelho
Sunday Morning Reading
With writing from @mikeelgan.bsky.social Josef Palermo, Sigrid Nunez and more.
#SundayMorningReading
warnercrocker.com/2026/04/19/s...
Everyone knows you're a fucking idiot.
The stunning and dramatic beauty of Bordeaux 5
The stunning and dramatic beauty of Bordeaux 4
Travel reduces the risk of dementia - science
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
The stunning and dramatic beauty of Bordeaux 3
The stunning and dramatic beauty of Bordeaux 2
The stunning and dramatic beauty of Bordeaux 1
Behold! The Superintelligent podcast just hit! "The Bullied Kids Who Became Billionaires." Watch, listen and subscribe: www.superintelligentpodcast.com/p/the-bullie...
Phrases of the moment: "thought virus" and "subliminal prompting"
arxiv.org/abs/2603.00131
California winery V. Sattui does wine pairings with s'mores.
www.sonomamag.com/weird-and-wo...
You can't fool me, fancy Paris dress shop. That's a karate uniform.
Branding needs work on this nail salon in Paris.
No, math doesn’t have feelings. (Why Anthropic’s “emotion” paper accidentally misleads the public.)
www.machinesociety.ai/p/no-math-do...
A new study found that AI has a much higher impact in the home than in the office. Here’s what that means for remote workers and digital nomads (like me): www.computerworld.com/article/4159...
AI is finally delivering productivity — for remote employees (New research suggests the secret isn't the technology itself, it’s the freedom to use it your own way)
www.computerworld.com/article/4159...
Amira and I took an epic three-day road trip from Tuscany to Paris via Bordeaux. (The view from an olive oil farm in Tuscany) gastronomad.net/experiences
This is the house in Tuscany I was podcasting from on TWiT Sunday. I was using my iPhone Air via Google Fi. The walls to the old house were two feet thick, so I put my phone outside on a chair with line-of-site from my laptop to the phone, and it worked great! twit.tv/shows/this-w...
Talk about local wine. The wine we're drinking at our friend's farm in Tuscany is from the vines just outside the window.
#gastronomad
Amira and I took an epic three-day road trip from Tuscany to Paris via Bordeaux. (Truffle hunting in Tuscany) gastronomad.net/experiences
Anthropic builds dangerous private AI model, OpenAI is trying to limit liability for AI-enabled mass deaths, & ICE is using spyware as @leolaporte.me, @docrock.bsky.social, @jasonhiner.bsky.social, & @mikeelgan.bsky.social discuss the moralities on TWiT! twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1079
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New Podcast Episode:
This Week in Tech: Fans. Only Fans.
Is Mythos Preview Too Powerful for Public Release?
with @leolaporte.me, @docrock.bsky.social, @jasonhiner.bsky.social, @mikeelgan.bsky.social
BREAKING: Donald Trump strongly endorsed fellow fascist Viktor Orbán in the Hungarian election, so of course Orbán lost. apnews.com/article/hung...
Do you love food, wine and travel? I just launched a shiny new Social Website on Surf, the new super social network from the good folks at Flipboard. My Social Website is called "Gastronomad." Check it out, follow and contribute your own content! Here's the URL: gastronomad.surf.social
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Suddenly, out of nowhere (and thanks to wonderful and generous friends), the legendary Château d’Yquem Sauternes has come into my life in multiple ways. My wife wrote all about it on our Gastronomad blog: gastronomad.net/blog/2026/4/...
