Fluid Imagination

Sad How Some Friendships Never Ever Seem To End

Kyle Callahan — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:14:50 +0000

When someone has been around long enough, you stop evaluating them in the present tense. They become inherited. They come with sediment. They arrive in your mind padded by old jokes, old stories, old loyalties, old rescue missions, old pain, old context. You are meeting the archive. And the archive makes people easier to excuse. […]

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The Wealth is Obscene

Kyle Callahan — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:12:03 +0000

Back in the 2011 Forbes 400 list, Jim Walton had $21.1 billion and he’s now closer to $144 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. That’s a very large increase in net worth. And he’s not the only Walton heir out there: Rob Walton is listed at $141 billion, Alice Walton at $140 billion, and Lukas Walton […]

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One Swift Wish: What I’d Like to See at WWDC26

Kyle Callahan — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:29:43 +0000

Apple sent their WWDC 2026 invitations built around the Swift logo. Swift is the programming language developers use to build native Mac apps. I'm definitely reading too much into it. I'm going to do it anyway.

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Fodder: Memorial Day, 2026

Kyle Callahan — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:05:23 +0000

Four of my ancestors didn't come home from their wars. What the records teach you, if you sit with them long enough, is that the bullets got almost nobody.

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A Note Filed Before the Work Begins

Kyle Callahan — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:43:47 +0000

Among ourselves, we have taken to calling them "the artificial ones." What follows is a note filed before they existed, by an analyst who ran the projections and could not bring herself to file the recommendation that followed from them.

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We Can’t Wait Another 80 Years to Fix It

Kyle Callahan — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:44:51 +0000

You cannot use the Constitution to remedy anti-Black racism, the Roberts Court says – in fact, if you do, you are the real racist; but you can totally engage in racial discrimination against non-white minorities as long as you pretend it’s all about partisanship. This decision returns the country to the situation before the Second […]

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April, in Two Centuries

Kyle Callahan — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:57:15 +0000

The people I've been closest to this month are dead. My wife and daughter have softball. All three of us are in the same room most evenings, each of us elsewhere.

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How Do They Sleep When…

Kyle Callahan — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:28:58 +0000

[My children] did not see the Trump era as any more aberrant than I had seen the Reagan era as a child of the 1980s. Decline was America’s natural trajectory, paved during their parents’ childhoods and passed down to their own. The president was a liar and no one had a steady job and the […]

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Physics Beats Politics

Kyle Callahan — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:29:00 +0000

In three consecutive months of listener pulse data (January, February, March), cost savings didn’t appear anywhere on the list of primary AI benefits. Time savings as the top benefit dropped from 19.7% to 12.7%; new capabilities as the top benefit rose from 21.9% to 29.3%. If AI adoption is being driven by capability unlocks rather […]

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Too old, too small

Kyle Callahan — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:30:43 +0000

Lately Americans have become fixated on the explosion in data centers and the power needs of artificial intelligence. That is actually a small part of a much bigger problem. Our grid is too old and our supply of electricity too small. If we don’t meet this moment, we will face an impoverished future of more […]

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