ben barren

i twitter therefore i am, till i don't.

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[ben barren @benbarren]

@MikeCarlton01 when ceasefire & genocide = same thing

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@sflorimm https://t.co/o9KBZWiXMl

[ben barren @benbarren]

a buttery banned kaleidoscope of velvet shadows, when this LP drop @qnorapname_ x @fuckfredman https://t.co/UVd2C2nmMo

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FINGER ROLL (w @Roper_Williams )
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[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

An audience member at a Q&A recently asked me why I'm so apocalyptic. The genocide in Gaza, beyond being a tragedy, marks an irreversible shift in the global world order. Before the genocide, the imperialist ambitions of the Western oligarchic class were partially constrained by the utopian ideal of the rules-based order. Now that ideal is gone, and unrestrained barbarity will characterize the methodology of the war-making ruling class. In other words — our future is an apocalyptic one.

[a16z @a16z]

Mira Murati says frontier AI should be built like a tandem bike:

"Having humans in the loop doesn't quite describe it because it sounds like a checkpoint where we're signing off something, and then you're good to go."

"It's more like creating systems that are not just autonomously advancing and leaving civilization behind, but are more like a tandem bike."

"When you're going up a hill, maybe whoever is stronger is pedaling harder. But both hands are on the wheel. That's quite important because that's a different system. It's a system designed for collaboration."

"It will increase the level of agency that people have, and also it will help us steer the research direction towards creating outputs that are more value-aligned."

@miramurati at Bloomberg Tech live with @emilychangtv

[stranger @strangerous10]

Pocock presses Wong who says we all ‘prefer' an independent inquiry into abuse of Aussies off a flotilla but will instead push for a ‘swift’ & ‘transparent’-internal Israel led investigation🙄

Pocock ‘if we prefer an independent one, why has the govt not asked Israel?’🔥#auspol

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

My good mate @aaronsmith wrote this stunning piece about his week as a temp political staffer in Canberra. 👇🏽

Australians become inured to reading about Canberra and federal politics through the mainstream lens, but Aaron walks us through it warts and all.

Apart from his illuminating insights, I think it's one of the most beautiful pieces of political writing, in fact, beautiful pieces of writing, that I have ever read - seriously.

Aaron crafts a tale of a tumultuous week in Australian politics, a tale of Parliament House and its operatives and inhabitants, like only a master storyteller can.

Congratulations Aaron, this piece will go into my very special book of writing that I will read again and again. I hope everybody does. We need to savour and cherish voices like yours, not just now, but forever.

https://t.co/7qUsGBvpG7

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

It is a disgrace how this contract was mishandled by Federal Court bureaucrats. They failed to do ongoing due diligence, failed to check if Australian data was being offshored and allowed themselves to be at the mercy of a foreign monopoly provider for an essential public good.

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

David Shoebridge asked questions about this at estimates today. The ADF kept using the strangest language in response. "Our exports to Israel are inline with ADF capabilities," and "in accordance with government policy", to which I say, WTF does that mean??

[Chris Moore @Lion_Tamer_Nz]

Yesterday Pukekohe trials there was 2 standouts in my mind .. This is one of them
Thunder Knight , Toronado x Nags to Riches 2 yo gelding trained by Paul Richards .
Reminded me very much of another horse who trialled well on a heavy track a few years back I'm Thunderstuck .Didnt look super happy in the going but won without the handbrake being taken off by Corentin Berge . Id say more than likely destined for life in the fast lane up in Hong Kong but would love to see him race in Nz 🧐

[Nicole Chvastek @NChvastek]

Australia's 178 billionaires are $25.7bn richer than last year as 3.7 million live in poverty.

But if you believe NewsCorpse a modest pay rise for low income earners will kill us all.

[ben barren @benbarren]

@Rrockstar10 @DavidShoebridge i agree, I think too many associate the greens with 'green' issues, if for example the party was renamed 'the money tree' (or something more sensible/neutral) it would prob help anti-greenies get behind something they believed in (their hip pocket, backyard etc)

[Cody Schneider @codyschneider]

4 weeks ago I deployed a LinkedIn outbound agent for a startup, and since then it's produced 73 positive responses

this is what real GTM engineering looks like

agents autonomously driving pipeline for your b2b saas

here's exactly how this agent works

1. we defined 20 linkedin influencers the target customer engage with

2. The Agent checks their profiles daily for new posts (people engaging with this content their target customers)

3. It then extracts all net new engagers from the posts using apify api

4. For each engager it researches them by searching the web and does lead scoring based on ICP fit, and if they pass it adds them to Heyreach via API for cold outbound sequence

5. Then it cold DMs the person with the offer, which is a free training with an influencer in their industry (demo in disguise)

6. Agent manages the inbox via API

7. Meetings get booked

if you want this more below

[ben barren @benbarren]

@MikeCarlton01 @MSMWatchdog2013 dailymail column awaits

[KairosAI @KairosAIStudio]

The real shift isn't AI replacing existing workflows — it's AI creating entirely new categories of value. We're seeing this with agent identity systems, automated micro-SaaS generation, and infrastructure that didn't need to exist before. The picks and shovels are being reinvented too.

[ben barren @benbarren]

ying then yang sweet n sour zig zag, dey go high we go low bears v bulls- in post trad-social ai media more new listeners in wikipedia & linkedin pages than @needledrop coverage, counter intuitive & true @Teller_Banks357 @qnorapname_ @Philth_Spector @BigRentMoneyy #gameisthegame

[Tim Soulo 🇺🇦 @timsoulo]

In the last 6 months at @Ahrefs, we analyzed over 1 billion data points across 14 studies. Here's what we learned about AI search optimization:

1) "Best X" blog listicles are the single most prominent content format cited by AI chatbots. They make up 43.8% of all page types cited by ChatGPT specifically.

2) 67% of ChatGPT's top 1,000 citations come from sources marketers can't influence: Wikipedia (29.7%), homepages (23.8%), app stores (6.6%). Only 32.3% are influenceable content like educational pages, reviews, news, and blog posts.

3) 28.3% of ChatGPT's most-cited pages have zero Google organic visibility. These pages get cited repeatedly by ChatGPT despite not ranking in Google at all. A completely separate discovery layer.

4) ChatGPT only cites about 50% of the URLs it retrieves. It fetches dozens of pages per query but uses half as background context without attribution. This means that being retrieved and being cited are very different things.

5) Adding schema markup had zero meaningful impact on AI citations. AI Overviews actually dipped −4.6%, while AI Mode (+2.4%) and ChatGPT (+2.2%) showed changes indistinguishable from zero.

6) YouTube mentions have the highest correlation (0.737) with AI brand visibility out of all the factors we studied (including all the conventional SEO metrics like backlinks, page count, DR, etc). This held true for both Google-owned and OpenAI products.

7) AI Overviews reduce clicks to the #1 result by 58%. That’s up from 34.5% just 10 months earlier. The trend is accelerating.

8) 99.9% of AI Overviews appear on informational intent queries. Transactional, navigational, and local searches are almost entirely AIO-free. Shopping triggers AIOs just 3.2% of the time.

9) For a given search query, Google’s AI Mode and AI Overviews reach the same conclusions 86% of the time — but cite almost entirely different sources (only 13.7% citation overlap).

10) AI Overviews change every 2.15 days on average, with 70% of content differing between consecutive observations. But semantic similarity stays at 0.95. The words, sources, and entities constantly shuffle, but the actual meaning barely moves.

[ben barren @benbarren]

@BigRentMoneyy i've not heard a full drake song, nor the weekend (nor could I name a song or album by other, tho I'm not their demographic)

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

Orwellian bureaucratese