Thomas Marban

Invented your parents’ favorite news aggregator, the first Android Twitter app, and many more failures. Prev: ✕ @mcuban (acquired by @prorata_ai)

[Thomas Marban @thomas]

People arguing that UIs are dead in favor of headless are the kind of people who think a Big Mac tastes just as good blended and served through a straw.

[Thomas Marban @thomas]

I reckon the premiere of The Social Reckoning is going rather well, at least as far as Meta’s interests are concerned. 🙋🏼‍♂️@finkd

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People tweeting postulates about Jev as if they've worked with it for decades, three days after it was released, is proof of how ridiculous the AI industry is.

[Thomas Marban @thomas]

Nothing seems to accelerate ethical development in twenty-something AI “whistleblowers” quite like having enough vested equity to suddenly afford principles and a moral compass.

[Thomas Marban @thomas]

Hard to trust a guy with your life after he already came for your legs.

[Muse @Muse]

Introducing Muse, your personal AI agent from Meta that gets things done across every part of life.

Download the Muse app and get started: https://t.co/KBjYWfshGo

[Thomas Marban @thomas]

@Muse Hard to trust a guy with your life after he already came for your legs.

[Thomas Marban @thomas]

All human-written blogs grow until they become news sites.
All news sites grow until they need topic filters.
All filtered news sites grow until they need algorithmic ranking.
All algorithmically ranked news sites grow until they need AI summaries.
All AI-summarized news sites grow until they start writing the news themselves.
All AI-written news sites grow until everyone gets a different front page.
All personalized news sites grow until people just want to know what everyone else is reading.
Then they go back to Drudge Report.

[Thomas Marban @thomas]

Dotcom rule #1: never give your data to a guy under 25 who raised millions to sit in an Aeron chair.

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@marckohlbrugge The Eames Chair doesn't pay off itself.

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The problem with pre AI Google was that it trained us to believe the needle had to exist somewhere in the haystack, while AI changes the premise because what we seek no longer has to exist before we find it. Not good.

[Thomas Marban @thomas]

AI didn’t kill taste. It just amplified your lack of it and made it scalable.

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@marckohlbrugge https://t.co/xt86QYZ9he

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Obese Mexican kids can now enjoy a Coke while Meta generates their bedtime stories.
https://t.co/1TVYpXi59d

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Remember when tobacco companies funded health research?
https://t.co/J9gLL2LV6S

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@joshu That was Mario Andretti actually.

[Thomas Marban @thomas]

@edzitron What would you expect from a hubris-laden CEO?

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@scottbelsky

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@edzitron Agentic AI is an API in a Patagonia vest with root access and a god complex.

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@marckohlbrugge Too bad you can't vibe distribute a shitty app yet.

[Thomas Marban @thomas]

The AI bro's optimization obsession starts to look less like a search for intelligence and more like a refusal to endure the basic friction of being alive.