Social media is increasingly anti-social
Only 7% of Instagram time & 17% of Facebook time is spent on content from friends or followed accounts. The rest is algorithmic video from strangers.
This is what happens when you condition algorithms on looking time rather than real social engagement. TikTok set the template; everyone copied it.
And over half of the long posts on Meta are written by AI. People are not engaging, or even creating the content on those platforms anymore.
Real human content and conversation has migrated away from these platforms to substack, discord, etc. https://t.co/qQzCIsxtPS
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Has anyone ever convincingly explained why Britain was the absolute center of the rock universe in the 60s and 70s and still punched way above its weight in the 80s? The chokehold it had on music culture was just remarkable
60s and 70s:
The Beatles
The Stones
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Genesis
Yes
Queen
ELO
The Who
The Kinks
Black Sabbath
Supertramp
Eric Clapton
Moody Blues
King Crimson
David Bowie
80s:
The Smiths
New Order
The Cure
The Police
Duran Duran
Dire Straits
Tears for Fears
Iron Maiden
Joy Division
For a relatively small country going through post empire decline the cultural output was just remarkable
This is great and they do deserve that. And, with some of the savings, we can zero out taxes on the bottom half of earners. The best way to put money in people's pockets is not to take it out in the first place.
Today, we're launching shift. We're starting by cleaning your apartment in New York City, for free.
Here's how it works. Book a shift cleaning. A vetted shift operator comes to your home wearing one of our devices. They clean. They leave. You pay nothing.
In exchange, we record the cleaning. Robotics is being built on data about how people do daily tasks, and the value of that recording is what funds the service. Anything personal in it is anonymized before the recording is processed.
By now, you have heard about the shift to AI more times than you can count. About the shift toward you, the part where you actually feel it, you have heard almost nothing. Shift is what starts to make it concrete, in specific cities, with specific services.
Today, cleaning in New York. Soon, handymen, repairs, and errands across the globe. And this is just one side of shift, with more on the way.
Comment “shift” and we’ll send you an early access link.
Excited to announce @meetarc's $10.76M seed, led by @a16z!
Arc brings quick service restaurants into the AI era, starting with drive-thru voice agents.
Founders @maclennanm + @alihussaincs shipped products for the real world at Block - and Arc is live serving customers 👇
Clearlake are gonna sell Chelsea in the next few years. The WC will inflate our club value and they'll cash in. Their actions made more sense when i realised this
"World models" is one of the buzziest yet ambiguous terms in AI right now. I started this video with many questions:
- How are they different from video generation?
- Can they do more than AI slop?
- Can LeCun be trusted given that he wears knee-high white socks?
Many thanks to @tjgalda and @NVIDIAAI for helping me answer (most) of these questions!
Whoopsexualism has been the defining movement for dealing with the challenges of 2020s modernity but isn’t perfect. Curious to see what a movement with a different set of tradeoffs looks like
Steven Bartlett says a few glasses of wine ruined the next 3 days of his life
“It's one of those areas where you don't understand the hidden cost until you really give it up for a while. I stopped drinking at 30 years old. I'm now 33. When I was 31, I thought, I'll have a drink again because now I could really A/B test it. I had a year of not drinking, decided to have a drink again”
“It ruined three days of my life. I had a couple of glasses of wine, didn't get drunk. It ruined three days of my life because of the domino effect it caused”
“I got worse sleep that night, and then because I got worse sleep that night, I ate more poorly the next day because my dopamine system or whatever, the cortisol system was all messed up. I podcasted worse. I didn't go to the gym that day or the day after because I felt really bad. I then slept worse, and I could track all of this on my Whoop”