The one who tribalized every issue found a ready-made community that validated every prior. Etc, etc. The incentive gradient was clear: sanity was expensive, and extremism paid dividends."
Now, enterprises need to find the AI apps.
The top use cases for AI agent pilots for marketing technology leaders are content or marketing asset production, cited by 52% of leaders piloting these tools. Other top use cases include content and marketing asset enrichment (49%) and campaign management/optimization (43%).
Meatsack context engineering to defuse tense conversations
In a tense situation, take a moment to say out loud your opponents position, feeling, and perspective. This is like setting up context and prompting for an AI. You put that in the context window and it flavors the ongoing conversation. It’d probably do interesting stuff in AI chats. Those chats are so explicit and non-confrontational that these dynamics probably already happen.
🔗 How to Fix Breakdowns in Communication
The charts say things are OK
It’s astonishing that the richest country in world history could convince itself that it was plundered by immigrants and trade.
🔗 One-Third of US Families Earn Over $150,000
”Trente Glorieuses” Trente Glorieuses
Feels a little bit like a platform standard so powerful that you need an AI front-end to make it usable by mere mortals.
Yes:
Kubernetes started as a way to orchestrate containers, but its true innovation lies in its API model. The declarative resource pattern, with its desired state, actual state and continuous reconciliation, has proven to be a universal abstraction. It works for workloads, infrastructure, policies and more. That universality is why Kubernetes has become the foundation for IDPs. It provides a consistent way to define, extend and enforce platform building blocks.
🤖 Writing for Baby Shoggoths: How AI Became Literature’s Last Reader
{Some crazy-town stuff in here, but interesting and probably, mostly, correct. -Coté}
Human writers may soon craft words primarily for AI rather than other humans, as large language models increasingly consume, interpret, and influence the world’s text. The essay explores the strange idea that “writing for AI” could grant influence over future superintelligence—or even a form of digital immortality.
Summarized by AI.
Source summarized:
Baby Shoggoth Is Listening - The American Scholar.
🤖 Optimism Linked to 15% Longer Life and Higher Odds of Reaching 85+
People who maintain a more optimistic outlook tend to live longer and are more likely to reach “exceptional longevity,” defined as surviving to 85 or beyond. Drawing on data from over 69,000 women and 1,400 men, researchers found optimism’s benefits persisted even when accounting for health conditions, depression, and lifestyle habits.
Summarized by AI.
Source summarized:
Optimism is associated with exceptional longevity in 2 epidemiologic cohorts of men and women | PNAS.