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[shashank @thetansen]

Alright say less, lets see the results

[Ira Bodnar @irabukht]

this actually works. spent ~$50, got 70 visitors — $1 each. that's cheaper than Google ads

[Mert Deveci @gm_mertd]

This is what "f you money" looks like. You can just call out the most famous 3 VCs out there and tell the horror stories publicly

instead of just going "anon VC" did me this and that

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

its genuinely shocking to me that we haven't made giant strides in language acquisition due to ai.

it doesn't feel dramatically easier/faster to learn a new language than it was 24-36 months ago. why?

[Pyrate @CEOLandshark]

If you run a full bottleneck analysis in your life and actually get to the bottom of the thing (no matter how many layers deep) - the last bottleneck/domino will always be an emotion you're resisting. That's it. That's how funny and wonderful the actual human condition is.

[Andrew @andrewxroas]

yes, don’t even bother trying it

[shashank @thetansen]

@okozzie_ LFGGG

[shashank @thetansen]

The era of a billionaire being a status symbol is over. The narrative has completely shifted and tech needs a messiah to lead it(it’s not Sam)

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

The kids are alright!!

Former CEO of Google Eric Schmidt gets booed every time he mentions artificial intelligence during his commencement speech at the University of Arizona.

This generation just may save humanity after all.

[shashank @thetansen]

@viemccoy Start believing in magic more

[shashank @thetansen]

@NYMag Everything you consumeand buy is dictated by this, and newsflash it’s always been that way. Whoever captures your attention you buy from, wether it be a billboard or from a mass ugc farm on tiktok

[shashank @thetansen]

This is the natural progression and was always going to happen. People will hijack the system unless there’s a strong barrier. The final step change is when ai becomes as good as human content and the platforms can A/B test advertisements on every scroll and generate on the fly.

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients.

The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show.

In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views.

“On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown.

“Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.”

Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: https://t.co/hlcdfSmzPc

[shashank @thetansen]

@pleometric We all just want to be part of a tribe

[shashank @thetansen]

why don't people give more credit to bezos for starting amazon solo

[shashank @thetansen]

@rowans_planet its chewsday innit

[shashank @thetansen]

Just found out about Dollar Street today

Visually seeing the income disparity in developing countries is viscerally different than hearing about it

[shashank @thetansen]

Long form video is a dying format. It won't die out but rev share will drop tremendously from the platforms. The engagement metrics just don't make sense. The viable long form remaining will be movies and tv shows

[shashank @thetansen]

it only takes a couple of essays posted online to change your life

[Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas]

@michaeljburry Your understanding of the subject is limited