Here's the fun fact from this episode to make you feel miserable: It used to be rule of thumb that you'd have to live in a a home for 2-3 years (on average) to make it a better financial deal than renting. Now, in NYC, it's 15-20 years. Ha!

I'm doing a new podcast called "Well Spent" (well, VIDEO podcast, since I guess that's what podcasts are now?) all about ~consumerism~. First episode is now today and the best part is that bc its on YouTube, @EmilyStewartM and I are giving full Mr Beast smile in the thumbnail

You know those Wikipedia articles where its sort of a disjoined list of single-sentence facts, where they're cited properly but the whole thing reads poorly? AI is pretty good at cleaning up that exact type of thing!

I spent some time poking around Grokipedia comparing random articles to Wikipedia. Woke/unwoke nonsense aside, I noticed that AI really did help enhance certain low-quality/unloved Wiki articles. I think there's actually some good use here

the "other" BdB story is so beautiful https://t.co/nfv2wmrmVk

"Strip" versions of games.... you don't hear so much about that these days

The biggest threat I see in Mamdani is that a bunch of people on here who love to complain about politicians seem really excited about him. I have no idea what happens if there's a mayor people who post on X a lot actually like. Uncharted waters here, very scary stuff

If you live/work in NoMa, you may have seen a new hot dog stand at 1st and M NE. The guy running it is Isaac Stein, an IRS lawyer who’s been furloughed since Oct 8. The government shutdown has unexpectedly given him time to pursue a passion project long in the works.

It's so hard to write emphatically about online freaks you're disgusted by, or big social/internet problems without hand-wringing and actually being wildly entertaining. A rare feat here you truly must read

The Graham Platner tattoo scandal.... basically the plot of K-Pop Demon Hunters.... A hero uses mass popularity as a way to fight the enemy... an enemy who is identified by tattoo-like patterns on their skin... patterns our heroine secretly has (but is afraid to show anyone)

Spirit Halloween was the only official licensed costume maker, but they completely sold out within 2-3 weeks and now there's only a few left in physical stores. Sure, there's unofficial ones on Shein or other places, but parents are getting worried about them arriving in time.

Official costumes for K-Pop Demon Hunters (the top searched costume, per Google and every kid I know) were made in a limited run and are completely sold out online. Netflix told me licensed partner interest was "soft" before the movie launched. Oops.

Amazing local TV news yesterday from Rochester..... I really recommend going to about 5:00 when it gets really good

NEW from me: The massively popular parenting influencer Dr. Becky coined the viral term "Deeply Feeling Kids" to describe sensitive, emotional kids. But some parents are wondering: is she actually talking about autistic kids? My piece for @thecut

I'm no AI genius, but I've put in my 10,000 hours on Tumblr and I could've predicted that "allow anyone to make non-nude videos with real women's likenesses" was going to end up with a bunch of feet and inflation videos.

This isn't just me, it's happening to what seems like any other woman stupid enough to have open cameos on the app, and there's TONS of it. My story: https://t.co/BnXRfCHnJJ

Sora has a pervert problem. It doesn’t “sexual content”, but they forgot about the fetish people, who are making tons of pregnancy, belly inflation, giantess, feet, and other fetish content with real women’s faces. Here are just a few vids made of me in the last few days:

My guess is the tweak (which adds a bottom nav to remind people to like/rt while reading) will help — it doesn’t change the algo but will help links compete better in the algo. But the algo is SO heavy now towards viral slop it’s hard to imagine “interesting articles” will win

I am curious if anyone will actually start clicking links again (would be nice!).

My read is that this doesn't affect the algorithm per se, but creates a lower like/retweet nav bar while you scroll a link so that you're more aware you still inside the X app (and ideally I guess like or rt the post?). I think that's actually a pretty good addition to the in-app