"...live by the praise, you're going to die by the hate."
Spirit animal energies: Sophie Cunningham and Riff Raff in the second half of this draft. #2026
Google is turning Search into an AI answer engine powered by Gemini. Instead of directing users to websites, it increasingly wants to answer questions itself. Faster and more convenient perhaps—but with huge implications for publishers, journalism, and the future of the web.
Love this reminder from @tfadell
"Makers often focus on the shiny object—the product they’re building—and forget about the rest of the journey until they’re almost ready to deliver it to the customer. But customers see it all, experience it all. They’re the ones taking the journey, step-by-step."
Culture does more than merely entertain or mesmerize. It shapes societal norms, values, morals, ideologies, and elevates certain narratives. It provides a lens through which we can understand each other, and the world. It helps shape public opinion and hence, can affect change. It can make certain views mainstream and build empathy. Historically, we can see that in how cinema broached then-difficult subjects around race, class, gender, and LGBTQ rights. A lot of shifts in society didn’t come through force, but rather through storytelling influence. Cinema both reflected and directed conversations within society.
It’s a type of soft power.
And now we have multiple sides (and countries) vying for it.