Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
CTO and maker of linkitylink.lol
Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
CTO and maker of linkitylink.lol
AI is to humanity what an obnoxious overconfident know-it-all is to a classroom
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Is This Real Life? and Escape From Noise
Winnie’s latest post was a wonderful read, especially her point about being relentlessly bombarded with psychological noise. It is not uncommon to catch myself thinking a certain way about something only to realize it doesn’t feel right. It’s almost always because the thought isn’t actually mine.
Hardware is hard and
I’m not in the market for a wrist wearable. I love my Apple Watch Ultra (and also my Oura ring), but POLAR is a great company and they should be applauded for making a screen-free and subscription-free product in 2025. I hope it’s a wild success for them!
I had seen / heard this previously, but it popped up again today. Easily one of the best commercials ever made. Hearing Steve’s voice not only gave me chills, but choked me up as well.

Not sure how I missed these Brandblack Rare Metal II when they came out. Doesn’t seem like the company is around anymore.
We are very fluent in blunt, materialistic, capitalist questions: What? How soon? How much? What I hope that we can learn to do is add questions of moral imagination to that mix: questions like “Why?” and “To what human effect?” and “How much is enough?”
“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

The Future and Web Ex Point Oh
This is some gloomy shit!