Will @mattbarrows.bsky.social bark at me if I mention that we've got more than enough fodder to do one more 49ers Emergency Podcast (yes, that should've been the name of the show) later today? Answer: Yes, he will.

Still waiting for a reliable way for companies and government agencies to broadcast new information. Perhaps someone could create a Reliably Sourced Syndicator?

My favorite comic book quote, even more relevant right now!

Always worth asking who benefits?

Very curious what @dsquareddigest.bsky.social thinks about the Atlantic piece on what ailed Britain... www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

How Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi

A case study in self-sabotage

theatlantic.com

There is value in being able to bear the stink of AI sheen to uncover actual insights.

Jasmine Sun has an interview with Labatut that seems be begging for at least a blog post by @beenwrekt.bsky.social if not a live conversation with him! youtu.be/C8rLRIhDS-Y?...

How the AI age forgets to ask: "What for?" | Benjamín Labatut + Jasmine Sun

YouTube video by Sana

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There’s a fascinating essay by @adamwiggins.com about how he created his own custom built algorithmic feed bsky.app/profile/did:...

Are WhatsApp groups are more powerful than political parties? From David Runciman: > ...the MPs talked about their WhatsApp group as their primary focus of loyalty...what the group could and couldn't bear, would the group move together...one of the things that is structuring loyalty in politics

The terrible moment you realize an episode of a favored podcast is actually an advertorial.

It is incredibly stupid that as a culture we have decided to make it difficult for businesspeople to keep honest diaries.

Everyone's somebody's edge case!

Now this is an amazing story begging for a @dsquareddigest.bsky.social post: www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/would-it-m...

Every Frame a Painting's Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos seem to be regularly releasing their excellent video essays again (in partnership with Criterion). The latest installment is on The Visual Comedy of Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs. [kottke.org]

The Visual Comedy of Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs

I’m gonna call it: Every Frame a Painting, my all-time favorite YouTube channel, is back. Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos stopped producing their fantastic video essays back in 2017 and while they have popped up here an

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I wrote a strategic map of four types of AI business. One example of type 3: a developer built a bespoke court submission tool in a single afternoon, using no AI at runtime. Hours of manual work done in minutes. This is what AI has done to the economics of custom software. vaughntan.org/ai4ways

joepernice.substack.com/p/reposting-... A song by Joe Pernice (Skud Mountain Boys) that directly contributed to my deciding to try to quit drinking

Reposting "Lift Me Up" because MJ Lenderman And Waxahatchee Covered it live!!

Holy cow! from the Scud Mountain Boys 1996 LP Massachusetts

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Every system that was regulated, either explicitly or implicitly, by the fact that they were effortful for humans (letters of recommendation, government filings, essays, or, as this paper finds, lawsuits) will break under a wave of AI.

Neuromuncher, that should be. Weekly podcast wherein I describe my favorite snacks and local snackeries.

I ask - why don't we have mental capacity measures for managers like we know the physical capacity of manual workers? backofmind.substack.com/p/the-most-i...

the most important number

and why we won't get it

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Yes it is thematically appropriate to mute the word "antimemetics"

Tell me again what solutions Stafford Beer would have suggested for the current cybernetic info-flow nightmare we are in the middle of? (Looking at @dsquareddigest.bsky.social ...)

A fascinating example of how disastrously wrong the establishment can be: www.nytimes.com/1963/09/28/a...

Jeanne Theoharis@jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In 1963, MLK joined the call by NY radicals for a nationwide Christmas shopping boycott to highlight the national racial climate that produced the Birmingham church bombing. A NYT editorial called the boycott "dangerous" "self-defeating" & “singularly inappropriate ...for promoting civil rights.”

human in the loop (interactive mode) vs human on the loop (manager mode) vs human out of the loop (escaping blame and avoiding responsibility for your LLM's actions mode)

Kind of like asking Michael Jordan for advice on succeeding at basketball!

Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Just finished reading Herbert Simon's autobiography and he has _excellent_ advice on how public administration scholars can make this happen. Just make sure to become a founding member of the "econometrics mafia" in the 1940s and the world of citations (and Nobel prizes) will open up to you.

AI gives us a chance to run a massive study to figure out which signals: - have quality because they have value vs. - have quality because they just seem scarce!

This is really very good and reminds me yet again of how we need to start pulling together an Actual Political Economy of AI.

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The AI economy looks...really precarious. So @matteowong.bsky.social & I did a bunch of reporting to try to figure out what happens when a potential bubble collides with a war in Iran and a potential resource shortage. The answer is...arguably the most dire stuff i've heard from smart ppl in a while

In my day to day work, there is a race between machine-generated vs voice-generated text. I hope voice typing wins!

remember that the most important VC is version control!

What media companies you've unsubscribed from is the real signal.

I would like a social network in which you had to show what media companies you subscribed to (and for how long).