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lilyray.nyc
Google announced that Apple Intelligence / Siri will use Gemini.

Is this game over? Cuz it feels like game over.
January 12, 2026 at 5:01 PM
newstorystudio.bsky.social
Some Chrome extensions can read and sell your AI conversations - be careful out there www.koi.ai/blog/urban-v... #chrome #ai
8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions
Privacy browser extensions misled users and sold 8 million AI chat logs, exposing sensitive conversations for profit without consent.
www.koi.ai
January 9, 2026 at 2:07 PM
newstorystudio.bsky.social
Veritasium videos now produced by a team of 30. Some interesting insight into what it takes to run a popular educational YouTube channel, as its founder reduces his time on-screen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=piHG... #youtube #Veritasium
The Future of Veritasium
Am I retiring? ▀▀▀ References: https://ve42.co/AnnouncementRefs ▀▀▀ Special thanks to our Patreon supporters: Adam Foreman, Albert Wenger, Alex Porter, Alexander Tamas, Anton Ragin, armedtoe,…
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December 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
newstorystudio.bsky.social
Greg the editor as a third (unseen) character in Jenna Phipps's popular home build videos - making "reality" more real. youtu.be/myg9iAQb8zI . In this vid, he's mentioned at 9.10 (& example of putting nail gun sounds to music at approx. 4.10). #JennaPhipps #youtube #editing
we finally installed our marketplace find (ep.93)
Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code JENNA at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: http://incogni.com/jenna Join our patreon + listen to our podcast:…
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December 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
newstorystudio.bsky.social
"When AI helps you write better code faster while you maintain architectural understanding—that’s augmentation. When AI writes code you don’t understand—that’s abdication." leadershiplighthouse.substack.com/p/i-went-all... #ai #productivity
I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.
My all-in AI experiment cost me my confidence
leadershiplighthouse.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:46 AM
newstorystudio.bsky.social
Working a 9-5 Job from Inside Skyrim VR www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9gI...
Can I work my 9-5 Job from Inside Skyrim
YouTube video by habie147
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November 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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techmeme.com
OpenAI unveils a free shopping research feature in ChatGPT that delivers a personalized buyer's guide, powered by a custom version of GPT-5 mini (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
newstorystudio.bsky.social
Reaction to a self-driving car www.youtube.com/shorts/ajFlI...
Waymo is coming to Minneapolis?! Remembering my first ride in AZ!
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November 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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jwherrman.bsky.social
it does drive me sort of nuts how people talk about AI agents, and a lot of new AI products in general, as if they're deploying into a static environment. people react when robots start showing up!
November 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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jwherrman.bsky.social
AI companies want to mediate the entire economy. Their competitors aren't happy about this nymag.com/intelligence...
This week, Amazon answered clearly in the affirmative, in the form of a lawsuit against Perplexity. The language is spicy: Amazon brings this action to stop Perplexity AI, Inc's ("Perplexity" or "Defendant" persistent, covert, and unauthorized access into Amazon's protected computer systems in violation of federal and California computer fraud and abuse statutes. This case is not about stifling innovation; it is about unauthorized access and trespass. It is about a company that, after repeated notice, chose to disguise an automated "agentic" browser as a human user, to evade Amazon's technological barriers, and to access private customer accounts without Amazon's permission. Fraud! Abuse! Trespass! Evasion! This is a threatening lawsuit — it later refers to Perplexity as an "intruder" — but it's also a useful window into Amazon's thinking on AI and where its business fits into a theoretical world where more people do more things with chatbots and agents. It might not be right to say the company is worried, exactly. But it's certainly clear about what it doesn't want to happen, which happens to be precisely what some AI companies clearly want. Most broadly, AI companies are hoping to end up in a situation where their products are the default interface for all sorts of things, and browser agents represent a small but aggressive move in that direction. A world where all purchases flow entirely through another company's interface, chatbot or otherwise, is something that Amazon would prefer to avoid, or at least have a say in, which is perhaps why the company's lawyers are talking about Perplexity as if it's built an automated ticket-scalping app, a sneaker-sniping bot, a data scraper, a data-exfiltration tool, or rip-off interface for its product catalogue. Earlier this week, Perplexity argued on its site: Amazon wants to block you from using your own AI assistant to shop on their platform ... Amazon should love this. Easier shopping means more transactions and happier customers. But Amazon doesn't care. They're more interested in serving you ads, sponsored results, and influencing your purchasing decisions with upsells and confusing offers. Suggesting that "Amazon should love this" and then describing the ways that it might cause them to make less money is sort of funny, but between the lawsuit and Perplexity's response we can get a pretty clear sense of what's going on here: an attempt by Amazon to stop a marginal player from setting a precedent it doesn't want, and a clear signal to bigger ones — OpenAI, Google, and other firms Amazon already competes and partners with - that, if they want their tools to touch Amazon, they'll have to do it on Amazon's terms. This is a sort of conflict we can expect to see a lot of, and soon.
November 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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jwherrman.bsky.social
indeed, this is the one useful thing about Grok and Grokipedia nymag.com/intelligence...
November 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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jwherrman.bsky.social
if you're a maximally public figure you have to buy/build a level of sycophancy that regular/outside-the-training-data/minimal-online-presence LLM users can basically already access for free
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
The content is still obviously delusional to anyone reading it. It’s just organised crazy. But the real danger is the internal effect on the user. The AI provides coherence and validation, stabilising the narrative they’re caught in.
November 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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johnmu.com
Consistency is the biggest technical SEO factor.
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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jayvanbavel.bsky.social
Social media is a funhouse mirror.
I gave a talk yesterday at the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine about how social media distorts our perceptions.
It's not a mirror, it’s a false polarization machine where the most extreme voices on any issue dominate the conversation.
November 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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hern.bsky.social
When an AI-powered writing tool was rolled out on a job site, the length of proposals exploded. Signals employers used to identify good candidates — like quality of writing, and relevance of experience — became ubiquitous. That was OK for bad candidates, but terrible for good ones.
November 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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wilreynolds.bsky.social
This is a crazy stat regarding local news, which has fallen off a cliff completely. The lack of local news leaves an opening for something to fill the void, since ai defaults to trying to get you an answer every time.

www.techpolicy.press/how-to-solve...
November 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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myqkaplan.bsky.social
This is also one of MY favorite things that’s ever happened on the internet!
November 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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ianbetteridge.com
Everyone kind of knew that Musk was deliberately using X to amplify extreme right wing accounts, but seeing actual data confirming it is still shocking

news.sky.com/story/the-x-effe...
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
newstorystudio.bsky.social
Oxford study finds lower-quality news gets more social media engagement #OxfordUniversity www.youtube.com/shorts/Kqi2W...
Oxford study finds lower-quality news gets more social media engagement #OxfordUniversity
NEW: An Oxford study has analysed 10 million posts across seven social media platforms – and found big differences in what news gets shared and how people engage with it: 🗳️ Lower-quality news is…
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November 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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jayvanbavel.bsky.social
For each additional moral–emotional word in a social media post, the number of shares increases 13%

Our new meta-analysis finds robust evidence of moral contagion (N=4,821,006)

The moral contagion effect is even stronger in larger, pre-registered studies (17%).
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
newstorystudio.bsky.social
Only 7% of Instagram time and 17% of Facebook time involves consuming content from friends, replaced by video. Podcasts are heading to video too - "all forms of digital media are converging towards the same end state: continuous streams of short-form video content" observer.co.uk/news/columni...
Social media is just TV now – and we can’t stop changing ...
Big tech’s biggest players are aggressively competing with TikTok’s clip-based offering – and that is cutting the social from social media
observer.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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jim.londoncentric.media
This is an interesting piece but I just read it going “the missing bit is the section on how the internet has fried everyone’s brains”.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Buxton: Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK
How national concerns affected a local election in the heart of the Peak District.
www.bbc.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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jim.londoncentric.media
Never felt as old as trying to watch a popular Twitch streamer reading out my reporting. Objectively understand this is the only way to make a mass audience consume information but the editing completely fries my brain. youtu.be/O-FBnUDWLSI?...
Insane Snail Tax Avoidance Scam
YouTube video by Big A
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October 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM