This is a good analysis, I think. Notwithstanding the general trash fire, there are some poor decisions being made in US tech policy around AI (and also crypto) that the UK is choosing to lock itself into by taking this C20th view of progress

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:

1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

2/ “… he is a once in a generation storytelling talent who has a loose relationship with the truth.”

Telling the story, or painting a picture of the future that the person he was speaking with *wants to hear* is the priority… not substance or reality.

"The same circumstances that made the soil fertile enough for agriculture to thrive also left behind the clay that became the medium for rcdg the 🍎 of that soil. I find this really moving—that the landscape made this leap in human innovation possible, that ingenuity worked in tandem w/ geology..."

Who called it arson and not crime brulee?

Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."

It lets you copy sections of an art board without having to export the whole thing and then crop the image.

It’s good for product shots in marketing comms for example

6% of Britons say they have a nemesis

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

Meanwhile, here in Maine, AI crawlers have rendered the server that manages our statewide interlibrary loan unreachable by legitimate attempts to pass through requests/information

Again, but louder: the server can’t be reached by libraries and the folks trying to use them BECAUSE OF AI CRAWLERS.

Chris Cuomo posting a deepfake of AOC the same week that Jim Acosta “interviews” a deepfake of a school shooting victim are both harbingers of how traditional media power players will help usher in the worst of the AI slop era

The Republican governor of Texas has directed state police to arrest his Democratic opponents

Analysts show that capital expenditures on AI were so big over the last 6 months they added more to the GDP than *all consumer spending*. That growth is offsetting pain from the tariffs and slow job growth.

So the AI bubble may be propping up the whole US economy. What happens if and when it pops?

Art galleries a bit weird eh. Each time your visit, a 100 paintings scattered in rooms and you walk through like uh-huh, uh-huh, ok, that’s nice, uh-huh, ok. Then at random one of them skewers you through your soul and you’re transfixed by the image for life

Limited replies on this because I am the Bishop of Fulham, this is my house and you're making a terrible racket

I think about this all the time

starbucks barista: order for cathy lou

cthulhu: (visibly incensed) i guess that's me

Brutal.

A great looking role at IF and a really nicely framed job description that looks like it does a good job of explaining the org culture as well as the role.

Why do drum solos feel so much more self indulgent than other instruments?

Yall asking Grok questions like it’s not pumping out 1000 cubic meters of poison gas into South Memphis every 15 minutes all so MFs can get a corny ass screenshot to dunk on.

Harvey Price time then.

In 2016, I had an ill fated stint as the Social Media Producer on Loose Women on ITV. It was a disaster, I should never have applied for the job, I certainly shouldn’t have been given it. I could do the actual job standing on my head, but the politics of the place…woof.

Teams, in the broadest sense. I love when people come together to do something big & it all falls into place.

Making a big dinner & your friends all chip in, a band when they’re vibing in the pocket, sports teams linking up nicely, choirs hitting their harmonies…

All of it sends me soaring.

Question: what do you think is the love of your life? Not WHO (boring and fake concept), but WHAT.