I’m skeptical of the “AI will take everyone’s jobs” thesis. A huge proportion of jobs could ALREADY be replaced by technology. But they aren’t due to institutional inertia, incompetence or the desire of managers to feel important.

Let’s check the latest Meta - Deloitte essay on personalisation.

Reading @kunley_drukpa on Cuba is heartbreaking. Things weren’t ideal in 2016-2019, but they seem to have been much better than they are now.

Found a food truck run by a Mexican-Thai couple. About to have the spiciest lunch I’ve ever had.

I spent a weekend vibecoding a tool I always wished I had, only to discover that @jijosunny and team had already built a much better version via @voicenotesai.

But then again I know little about the topic and my Chinese literacy primary school level.

Which has made me feel that Chinese characters are increasingly vestigial in an age of mass media, where everyone in China grows up speaking mandarin and writing pinyin.

All I know about Chinese literacy comes from @YashengHuang and how it was a powerful device for making the vast empire legible to the centralised state in the James Scott sense.

Ended up getting this by @tsu_jing

Is this actually worth it?

“Did you open a ticket?”

I always wondered what this chart would look like if you added obesity rates.

Someone made an app to gamble on music

My granddad is 82. He is using AI to animate photos he has of his grandad (born 1842).

A controvesial new report claims America's gambling legalization has failed spectacularly. Of the $90B US online gambling market, 74% ($67B) flows to ILLEGAL offshore operators—growing 64% vs just 36% for legal sites.

Disaster. The OF girls have discovered Strava.

Unfortunately the ludicrous American custom of driving for 10-15 minutes in order to go for a walk / run makes sense in the USA.

I’m looking to join a group of brave patriots who are getting ready to shoot the Russian tsunami later.

Claude Code is such an unlock for data driven self-improvement. It would previously take me hours to figure out how to get the API right, extract my games out of the json response, build a suitable table etc. Now I can do it in 5 minutes.

Californians will sometimes invite you into their cold plunge pool. It is a sign of respect in their culture. You have to accept.