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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
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
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,…
www.youtube.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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
"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
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
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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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
Reaction to a self-driving car www.youtube.com/shorts/ajFlI...
Waymo is coming to Minneapolis?! Remembering my first ride in AZ!
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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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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AI companies want to mediate the entire economy. Their competitors aren't happy about this nymag.com/intelligence...
November 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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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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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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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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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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Consistency is the biggest technical SEO factor.
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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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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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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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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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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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
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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
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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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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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
youtu.be
October 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM