- More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds - “Together, these AI slop channels have amassed more than 63bn views and 221 million subscribers, generating about $117m (£90m) in revenue each year, according to estimates.” // Assuming The Algorithm" is working (showing people things they will watch and they verify this by watching more), this is some revealed preference in action.
- “I think of Trumpian policy, first and foremost, as elevating cultural policy above all else.” February, 2025. // Everyone can get in on a culture war. Related: you can get whatever type of coffee you want.
- ‘Maybe “advice” is more like a mnemonic to helpx you remember something you already believe. For example, the most common advice for writing is to “just sit down and start writing.” This is stupid advice if you don’t already know how to write. The question is how to get to that state, what to start writing, what to do after that, etc. But, if you’re skilled at writing, this advice makes complete sense and is incredibly helpful. Advice is jargon.’
- ‘Apparently there is a tradition of American presidents feeding hot dogs to British monarchs. When Roosevelt hosted Queen Elizabeth at his home in 1939 she supposedly asked him how to eat a hot dog and his response was, “Very simple. Push it into your mouth and keep pushing it until it is all gone.”’ The Taste Games.
- ”Ma and Pa America.”
- DOGE did not find $2T in fraud, but that doesn’t matter, Musk allies say -
- Your Enterprise AI Strategy Must Start With Java, Not Python - “The choice of where and how to start your AI journey is a business decision, not a technology one. By grounding your AI efforts in the operational muscle you’ve already built with Java and Spring, you minimize friction and risk. Everyone just keeps doing what they’re doing, but with a new tool. This established operational and development life is the hard-won experience, paid for in decades of maintenance and gut-wrenching production failures, that gives you the platform to continuously absorb new capabilities like Spring AI and MCP. Get the developer experience and the operator experience right, and you unlock the organizational velocity needed to turn tentative AI experiments into a mission-critical competitive advantage.”