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Open Source Has Too Many Parasocial Relationships - “If you want the software to get updated—to have bugs fixed and security vulnerabilities patched—you want something very different. What you want is an ongoing supply of software, not a copy of a specific software artifact.” // A good overview of updating OSS software versus a one-time download and continuous use. Paying for support is one way to get the actual “supply chain” benefits enterprises and auditors crave. // The next question is: is it the job or the people running the project to do this supply chain stuff?
Dan Moren’s iOS 26 Review - “It’s one of the very best, most thoughtful, most useful changes in iOS 26.” // I didn’t notice this, and it is nice of you so a lot of things with text and other content on your phone (like link blogging).
Treat your to-read pile like a river - ”To return to information overload: this means treating your “to read” pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it).” // Be comfortable with a to didn’t read list.
🤖 Michael Dell Joins Trump-Backed Consortium to Acquire TikTok US
Michael Dell is part of a consortium, including Oracle’s Larry Ellison, pursuing the acquisition of TikTok’s US operations to ensure majority American ownership and control over its algorithm.
🤖 Sunlight’s Surprising Upside: Why a Little UV Might Be Healthier Than Hiding Indoors
Recent research suggests that moderate sun exposure may confer wide-ranging health benefits beyond vitamin D production, potentially offsetting its well-known risks. While excessive UV can lead to skin cancer, new studies indicate that careful sun-seeking could lower mortality rates, improve cardiovascular health, and even modulate immunity.
This is a summary from ChatGPT. Source summarized: The health benefits of sunlight may outweigh the risk of skin cancer
Moderate sunlight exposure correlates with lower all-cause mortality despite an increase in skin cancer risk.
🤖 We’re Optimizing Ourselves Into Oblivion
This is a summary from ChatGPT. Source summarized: Our obsession with efficiency is costing us our humanity.
Modern life is obsessed with speed, convenience, and frictionless efficiency, but in the process, we’re eroding the small, slow pleasures that make life meaningful. The piece argues that embracing inconvenience—commutes, cooking, wandering—restores humanity in a world of one-click living.
Frictionless living kills small joys like daydreaming, cooking, or strolling your neighborhood. Hyper-efficiency tools (Amazon, ChatGPT, Uber) turn life into a series of swipes and clicks with no plot.
🤖 Youth Optimism Collapses Amid Debt, Housing Crunch, and Job Anxiety
This is a summary from ChatGPT. Source summarized: What Killed Youth Optimism?
Youth, long the demographic of relentless optimism, is now more pessimistic than older generations, according to the Michigan Consumer Sentiment Survey. Despite measurable gains in wealth, younger Americans are facing a crushing mix of debt, unaffordable housing, and job-market instability that makes their cynicism feel rational.
Youth consumer sentiment has fallen below that of older generations, a reversal of historic trends.
🤖 San Francisco’s AI Gold Rush: High-Agency Hustlers vs. NPCs in the Great Lock-In
This is a summary from ChatGPT. Source summarized: are you high-agency or an NPC?
San Francisco is in the throes of an AI-fueled renaissance, buzzing with wealth, 22-year-old techno-prophets, and absurd $100M salaries, even as anxiety simmers beneath the surface. In a city caught between triumph and precarity, the culture has splintered into “high-agency” hustlers poised to surf the AGI wave and “NPCs” drifting toward a permanent, algorithm-sedated underclass.
Key Insights High-agency behavior—the ability to adapt, create, and thrive despite uncertainty—is the ultimate currency in AI-era San Francisco.
32 notes on AI & writing - “AI is better than most humans at producing prose. In a couple years, it will be better than most “professional writers” as well. Most text is not creative. Emails, policy papers, reported news. It does not desire to surprise or delight. It aims to convey ideas and information as clearly as possible.” // We should be using AI for corporate communication without shame. There is little value in internal, corporate communication to be “genuine.” The very important except is when you lay people off. // That said: I should test this theory by having Gemini rewrite my inner-comms for a week.