i was browsing insta with my friend & the ad load is pretty crazy now. i counted roughly 40% ads in the stories / reels. for every 6 pieces of organic content, you get hit with 4+ ads across stories & reels. basically half the experience is just one long commercial break.

Friend protest in NYC

Improvisation seems to be the final state of skill development (e.g. cooking, playing jazz, fluency in a foreign language).

True AGI needs to be able to improvise. AI today is stuck at the phase of learning where you mimic tasks like other people but you don’t exactly know why you’re doing it that way. Learning the rules but not yet understanding how to intentionally break them.

The Louvre heist confirms my theory that if you wear a hi-vis vest in public you can pretty much do anything.

ChatGPT Atlas is another surface for data collection & ad targeting. No need for websites to install a tracking pixel if you have people's web browsing history & search queries.

There are too many Ads of San Francisco in NY. Put them back!!

youtube upgraded their player experience: - comments while watching video - like/dislike while in full screen mode (similar to x's new in-app browser) - nice UI when skipping 5sec - new icons/style

A universal struggle

Feels like we shouldn't be measuring coding agent performance based on how long they spend on a task. Sure, your agent ran for 8 hours straight, but did it generate something useful or just burn through tokens?

As OpenAI grows, employees are getting concerned that it's starting to look too much like the social media giant Meta. Details incl: - a metafication survey - internal reactions to sora - the rise of ads w/ the dream team Kalley Huang Erin Woo theinformation.com/articles/opena…

HOW TO LONG GAME 1. THERE IS NO SHORT GAME, ONLY LONG GAME. SHORT GAME IS TOURISM. LONG GAME IS LIVING THERE. 2. THE LONG GAME IS ABOUT BUILDING YOUR OWN GAME. ANY PRIZES THAT ALREADY EXIST ARE SHORT GAME CROWNS. WIN BY BUILDING YOUR OWN GAME. 3. THE LONG GAME IS LONG. YOU

Saving up so many niche bangers for when I’ve graduated from reply guy.

Relationships are messy, and that’s the point. A must read from ruby justice thelot.

Zuck on Meta's quarterly earnings report. Just think about how many cumulative minutes this represents: "Across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, our AI recommendation systems are delivering higher quality and more relevant content, which led to 5% more time spent on Facebook in

$5 PlanetScale releasing soon planetscale.com/blog/5-dollar-…

Bro last night was a Jordan Peele movie

October