Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social

WSJ tech columnist. Author of How to AI, a bullshit-free guide to how to get actual utility from AI, aimed at the skeptics who are tired of the hype surrounding it.

Feels strange to be promoting a book when things are the way they are but, here goes --

January 27, How To AI, my guide to AI for the rest of us -- including skeptics who want to better understand its limitations -- drops.

Pre-orders: sites.prh.com/how-to-ai
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social
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The University of Michigan has been measuring consumer sentiment since 1952. We just got the first Iran-afflicted measure for April, and it's at the lowest level ever recorded.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social
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Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today.
One for the history books
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/10/pope-leo-criticism-iran-war
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Hanna Kozlowska @hannakozlowska.bsky.social
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I'm almost done with my book (social history of online dating for One Signal/S&S)! But first, I need to speak with people about AI and dating. Do you use one of the AI assistants such as Rizz or ChatGPT for help? Or maybe you have a romantic AI companion? You can be anon! hanna@hannakozlowska.com 🙏
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points to Andrew Ross Sorkin for interceding in this argument and being like "yes the larger number is in fact higher than the smaller one"
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Don’t ‘Try to Play Us,’ Vance Warns Iran as He Heads to Talks

www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-war-latest-news-israel-us-lebanon-2026
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cursed image
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someday oil will be $500 a barrel and we'll still be using it for plastics and jet fuel and people will be like "can you believe they used to run lawnmowers on this stuff??"
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yes but it would require reviving Project Plowshare and the resulting nuclear fallout would contaminate half the globe
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my most unpopular but also deeply-held conviction is we'll never stop drilling for oil even once we stop burning it in cars, it's just too useful for other stuff
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I have been writing about EVs at WSJ for a decade and this is the first year that so many readers are fans of them that when I asked for their tips on switching, responses *poured* in.

The energy transition isn't gonna happen fast but it IS happening.

🎁🔗

www.wsj.com/business/autos/wsj-readers-share-their-top-tips-for-switching-to-an-ev-4dfe3a16?st=iMPENN&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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sorry but this is what I think of every time I hear "foreign steel"
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why haven't pundits started calling this the Trum Bump?
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com
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Why is Josh Gottheimer making so many trades?

This is a great site that tracks Congressional trading.

www.quiverquant.com/congresstrading/
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It's wild to think how long this could drag on
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meanwhile on X

www.wsj.com/articles/bill-ackman-x-elon-musk-trump-dei-cf9d9dc0?mod=hp_lead_pos7
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Andy Cameron @andcam.bsky.social
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Fantastic post on the massively under-appreciated value of process knowledge, how it’s far more meaningful to the day-to-day success of any business than IP, and how the tech bros and AI boosters who ignore it are guilty of incredible naivety.
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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com
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Hall of fame FT correction
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one thing I'm noticing as I get older is that all the happiest people are cringe af

really seems like an endorsement of cringe
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evolution rocks
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co
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FWIW the NYT doesn’t get much engagement because we changed the rules for how links worked and they didn’t play ball because they’re a news organization that publishes reporting on their own website and not ours.

(via www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/do-links-hurt-news-publishers-on-twitter-our-analysis-suggests-yes/)
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The thing about bets on Polymarket is this is all completely traceable after the fact, investigators can just look at where the crypto came from and where it went, should anyone ever choose to do that
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Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me
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I'm excited to launch Plinky for Mac in just two weeks. 👨🏻‍💻

I've been using it for a few months and having my links on every device is a real game changer. The perfectionist in me will keep refining the experience — but my pragmatic side is excited that soon everyone will have Plinky on their Mac! 🖥️
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this thought bubble was brought to you by writing about automobiles again this week, and wading through more than 600 comments from readers about why they choose the vehicles they do, and how fuel cost is a factor (yes, 600...)
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Americans *hate* paying more at the pump. Hate hate hate it. Now every day they wake up and it's in their faces, and even the right-wing pundits are telling them exactly why it's happening & how it's leading to inflation.
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as much as pundits talk about expensive gas being a major issue, I don't think they realize just how much it is a *daily* irritant that *no American* can avoid

the fact that it's directly linked to an unpopular war of choice, you just doing get those kinds of political forcing functions often
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Ah, so the Strait isn't really open after all
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so this is interesting: a former prof of mine finds that the internet has become such an unreliable source of information that AI and access to the internet doesn't mean all his students do the same on open-book quizzes
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people want every social network to be everything -- a place to network, a place to become informed, a place to burnish a personal brand -- which I understand, but I think that's a mistake. we live in the age of purpose-built social online social networks & it's better this way.
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I truly do not care which of these text-based social networks is up, or down, or sideways, all I know is Bluesky has been a good place to find like-minded folks and hear from / interact with them regularly, that's literally as far as my lizard brain takes it
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Rob Boone @seeminglyrob.bsky.social
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"The fights ahead are between capital and whatever coalition can form against it, not between humanity and machines. Technology is a terrain in that conflict; abandoning it means losing before the contest begins."

side note: sentiers has quickly become one of a handful of my weekly must-reads
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