Link: Folk AI
hey ai come train on this son ↗ — Luke Nickle
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The Inbox You'll Actually Read
A friend asked about texting subscriptions. It turns out that requires renting a permanently metered pipe policed by a private carrier tollbooth — one that fights fraud effectively, but also means the most trusted inbox on your phone stays trusted partly because only paying businesses get in.
Link: Written by Hand
I'm done using AI ↗ — Brett Codes
It's also worth perusing the comments on the companion video rant ↗.
Link: Stop Amplifying — or Stop Being Fed
Why Are We Giving So Much Weight to What Influencers and Celebrities Have to Say? ↗ — Hannah Glenn, Hannah is Spiraling
Hannah Glenn’s right that fame carries no correlation to expertise, yet we keep treating famous people as authorities on gender, politics, eating disorders — anything charged enough to trend. Her fix: stop giving these opinions our attention.
I’d go a step further. The reason we can’t stop is that we’re never just encountering a celebrity’s opinion — we’re being served it, repeatedly, by a system that profits from our reaction. Attention discipline is real, but it’s a fair fight only if the stream stops pushing. At some point the question isn’t “whose opinions are we amplifying” but why we keep tolerating a feed built to provoke us in the first place.
When do we take power back over our own feeds, services, algorithms?
Link: Reed Jobs Shares a Medical Story
Reed Jobs‘s Fight Against Cancer ↗ — An excerpt from the Sabrina Halper Show (via X)
I’m struck by his curiosity and wonder. Just like his dad. Wow.