Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
Nerd
Brad Barrish
bradbarrish.com
Social Ex Point Oh and Forever Obsessed
Niche or purpose-based social networks are the way forward. The smaller, the better. I don’t know anything about this, but Rubin sent it and I love the branding. Feels very Cream Magazine.
I loved this post from Sari.
Everything on TikTok is just kind of mediocre, because nobody watches anything for very long, so there’s no reason to make anything very good. And increasingly, this endless, relentless feed of bland mediocrity is eating every other type of cultural consumption in America.
A few cultural thoughts
Big or small, old or new — or even hardware or software. It’s always true: underpromising and overdelivering is always the path to delight, but also always devilishly difficult to pull off. That’s the game.
Reader
Hardware is hard and Experience is everything
Leave it to Gruber to say this in a way that just lands. Eric’s tweet was also great.
This stuff is straight out of science fiction: being able to have an audio conversation with a capable LLM about things that it can “see” through your camera is one of those “we live in the future” moments.
Simon Willison • Gemini 2.0 Flash: An outstanding multi-modal LLM with a sci-fi streaming mode
Simon Willison on the release of Google Gemini 2.0 Flash and it’s multi-modal capabilities.