bad news "AI bubble doomers". I've found the LLMs to be *incredibly* useful and reduce the workload (and/or make people much, MUCH more effective as their jobs with the "centaur" model). **Is it overhyped? FUCK Yes.** Salespeople Gotta Always Be Closing. But this is NOTHING like the moronic Segway (I am still bitter about that crap), Cryptocurrency, which is all grifters and gamblers and criminals end-to-end, and the first dot-com bubble where not NEARLY enough people had broadband or even internet access, plus the logistics systems to support shipping products was nowhere REMOTELY where it is today. If you are expecting this "AI bubble" to pop anytime soon, uh.. you might be waiting a bit longer than you think? Overhyped, yes, overbulding, sure, but not *remotely* a true bubble any any of the same senses of the three examples I listed above 👆. There's something very real, very practical, very useful here, and it is getting better every day. If you find this uncomfortable, I'm sorry, but I know what I know, and I can cite several dozen very specific examples in the last 2-3 weeks where it saved me, or my team, quite a bit of time.

The one part of How to Win Friends and Influence People that I remembered most of all: "What was I trying to get out of him?"

"... these angry young men have switched from the redpill to the blackpill, and are reacting to the chaos and paranoia of the second Trump presidency, as well as the changing landscape of the online attention economy. An attention economy shaped by right-wing influencers and reactionary tech CEOs, mind you. They’ve clearly realized that targeting high-visibility figures within Trump World is a more effective way of getting attention, or causing chaos, or because they think it’s funny, or because Trump back in power hasn’t been the glorious revolution they were promised."

Garbage Day

The rise of the edgelord shooter

Read to the end for a good Michael meme

Imagine a world in which all of these billionaires were like MacKenzie Scott. I would very, very much like to live in that world together with you.

Forbes

America’s Richest Billionaires Keep Getting Richer. They’re Not Donating Much More

The members of The Forbes 400 are $1.2 trillion wealthier than a year ago. But how much of their fortune have they given back?

Ran into my first hard core Libertarian recently. That did not end well for either of us.

Thanks for the reminder to cancel Disney+. As my wacky Jethro Tull loving high school history teacher used to say, "you gotta hit 'em in the pocketbook". That was his primary take from all of U.S. History. And he's right. So let's really hit them where it hurts: the money.

I'm never going to apologize to anyone for my enthusiasm, or the fact that I care more about all of us surviving together than I care about my own personal survival. I'll take that over crushing depression any fucking day of the week.