Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
Nerd
Brad Barrish
bradbarrish.com
Very Online People and Web Ex Point Oh
I am very excited about this podcast (h/t Andy Baio)
... See moreYou’re never so centered on yourself as when you’re depressed. You’re never so ready to forget yourself as when you are happy. Happiness releases you from self. It is suffering and pain and misery and depression that tie you to the self. Look how conscious you are of your tooth when you have a toothache. When you don’t have a toothache, you’re not
By Anthony De Mello, from the book, Awareness.
From the May 30, 2025 edition of Tim Ferriss’s 5-Bullet Friday email newsletter.
The Future and
From the post, “Productivity, AI and pushback”.
you could say that the entire internet is one massive victory for maximalism.
Erik Hoel • In 2025, Blogs Will Be the Last Bastion of the Good Internet
As of September 2025, approximately 170 million Americans spend, on average, one hour every day in an app that is designed to maximize psychological grip. While Congress fixates on TikTok’s data collection usages, what hasn’t received enough attention is how the platform has successfully industrialized human attention itself.
TikTok Won. Now Everything Is 60 Seconds.
This took my breath away and brought me back to my mother’s bedside.
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.
A polite disagreement bot ring is flooding Bluesky — reply guy as a (dis)service
AI and
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Source: Against Lists by Elena Gorfinkel via S/FJ