Desk and framing arrangement for that YouTube talking head look.
The Man Calling Bullshit on the AI Boom - “To what end? What happened there? Because we get all these stories about ‘Oh, they fed all the data into the LLM,’ and then what?”'// Plus, a list of previous big tech things that have been utter bullshit.
The intelligence is in the user - The robot is only as good as what you bring to it.
The art of Jean-Michel Nicollet - “French cover design can be unsympathetic to cover illustration, crowding the paintings with poor type choices and purposeless graphics.” // Great looking paperback covers. // That basic framing would be good for video thumbnails…?
Manton predicts the AI oligopoly - “I’m increasingly thinking that we’ll have OpenAI and Google for the mainstream, Anthropic carving out an enterprise niche, Meta doing the ads thing, open source models… and the rest of the industry is going to fade away."
“How many $18 glasses of natural wine can you drink while friends relay the latest upsetting news they gleaned from X, Instagram, and TikTok…” the new lost generation
The new Lost Generation - What people without kids are up to. “Must be nice,” etc.
How Target is rethinking search for generative AI - 🤖 To stay ahead, Target is training its AI agents to understand product context deeply and surface assortments that reflect how people shop in the real world. Bhosale gave an example of a “summer party” query that should generate not just tableware, but grills, décor, sunscreen, and more—a holistic, curated experience.
🤖 The New Lost Generation: Phone Addiction, Expats, and the AI Fork in the Road
Our modern addictions—especially to our phones—have quietly become the backbone of daily life, eroding memory, attention, and a sense of self. Against this backdrop, a wave of cultural withdrawal, from sobriety to expat living, reflects a deep desire to reset before AI either liberates us or consumes us.
AI generated summary of: The new Lost Generation.
Key Points Modern addiction has shifted from substances to screens, with phone dependency becoming unavoidable for work and survival.
I Blame the AI - “Accountability sinks are systems designed so that when things go wrong, no individual human can be held responsible for fixing them. He argues that ‘decisions are delegated to a complex rule book or set of standard procedures, making it impossible to identify the source of mistakes when they happen.’” So, therefore: “Redesigning roles and AI systems with human overrides will be essential to ensuring accountability. At least for now, every key decision still needs a person behind it & maybe that’s enough to rebook quickly enough to get home for dinner."