Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
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Brad Barrish
bradbarrish.com
The idea of “file over app” is to care a lot more about your data itself than the app or platform it’s in. Like, the app you’re using now? Probably not going to be around in 50 years. Text files and JPGs and PDFs? Way more likely to still be here! So invest in formats that last, not apps that don’t.
David Pierce • Why all your notes and files should be plain text - The Verge
All of the people I love hate this stuff, and all the people I hate love it. And yet, likely because of the same personality flaws that drew me to technology in the first place, I am annoyingly excited.
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AI and AI AI Captain
I feel this intensely and think about it all the time. Many people for whom I have tremendous respect, people I have been reading for many years, people who I look to to make sense of the world really do seem to dislike AI. All I can tell you is that for the last few years, I have been obsessively playing with it, building things with it and spending a lot of time trying to make sense of it. I can’t stop. It’s the exact same feeling and drive I had when I first installed Mosaic in the 90s. But this feels quite a bit different.
When my therapist said “what you’re feeling is appropriate for the developmental stage you’re in right now”, it hit me right between the eyes and I knew exactly what she was trying to say. Our growth never ends. We never stop going through developmental stages — we just call them things like “becoming a parent”, “mid-life crisis”, or... See more
Jason Kottke • We Never Stop Growing
Kevin Parker (Tame Impala) built a synth. The video is amazing.
Survival isn’t just about what you focus on. It’s about what you deliberately refuse to focus on.
Restraint is a winning strategy.
Limiting our attention is not a weakness. It’s how we maintain mental fortitude.
Move on.
Restraint is a winning strategy.
Limiting our attention is not a weakness. It’s how we maintain mental fortitude.
Move on.
The Art of (Attention) War
I don’t understand how anyone can say they’re anti something that’s potentially creative. If it’s not working for you today it could work for you a year from now. Soon conversations like that won’t even matter. It’s like discussing the Internet. It already is.
Steven Zeitchik • Harmony Korine Avoids Books, Doesn’t See Movies and Thinks AI Is the Art Form That Holds the Most Promise
AI and
slop·py·pas·ta n. Verbatim LLM output copy-pasted at someone, unread, unrefined, and unrequested. From slop (low-quality AI-generated content) + copypasta (text copied and pasted, often as a meme, without critical thought). It is considered rude because it asks the recipient to do work the sender did not bother to do themselves.
Stop Sloppypasta: Don't paste raw LLM output at people
Florida is the first state to take the courageous step toward decluttering itself of excess children, but under the inexpert guidance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., other states may follow. If we lose herd immunity, we will bring back diseases that had formerly been eliminated, and some children who would otherwise have been protected will perish. But... See more