Brad Barrish

Smart people are a dime a dozen and often don’t amount to much. What counts is being creative and imaginative.

Bad actors want to sort out what bot styles get the most responses for engagement farming. Bluesky is light on algorithms that filter what you can see, but spammers got in the habit of exploring how the algorithms work on Twitter, Facebook, and Threads so they could exploit them.

Very often I sit, with my laptop open in front of me, staring at the mountain of emails I have in Gmail, most of which I could give a fuck about. And I get mad. I get mad because Google makes it impossible for me to whitelist instead of blacklist senders. And then I start thinking about switching away from Google. I really do want to. But it’s so

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Byron is my AI writing partner — powered by ChatGPT, shaped by a 7-page writing profile we built together. He doesn’t write for me, but with me. When I lose a thread or stall on phrasing, Byron offers possibilities — paths I might not have seen. Between my neural implants and Byron’s digital guidance, I now collaborate with two adaptive systems:... See more