John Naughton being as brilliant as ever about the AI economic bubble:
⛓️ Is the AI bubble history repeating itself? Ask a chatbot
Make no mistake: the technology is going to be transformative, but we are in a bubble of over-hyped expectations and (crucially) valuations.
Worth watching: ChatGPT growth has slowed, and time spent per user is down…
Or, so reports TechCrunch, based on Apptopia figures. So this is app usage, not overall usage.
But still…
Listening to Polly Toynbee and David Walker talking at the Jeremy Tunstall Memorial Lecture. Lots of opinions about the problems with political journalism today…
Watched: Ms. Marvel S1E2, Crushed 🍿
Rewatching this with the family made me realise that the under-rated The Marvels is a far more successful sequel to Ms. Marvel than it is Captain Marvel.
Matthew 7:16 is an incredibly useful lens to view the behaviour of people on social media, whether you’re a Christian or not.
Here’s my notes from the panel at the Future of Media Technology, about how publishers are shifting from search and social to community development.
This made me both excited (because this is exactly what they should be doing, and tired (because I’ve been banging this drum for 20 years).
O’Reilly Media: Don’t use AI to make content hamburgers, use it to allow customers to find great content steak.
This is an amazingly written and researched interview with Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson.
I think this, from @endonend, is absolutely spot on:
What I think we need is more humanity. More sharing of our stories and life experiences. It’s how we come to appreciate people we don’t know and that may not look like or live like us. It’s easy to be baited into hatred of the faceless other, but a human being with a story we can relate to and empathize with? Much harder. It’s exactly why fascists focus on demonizing and dehumanizing people.
Trying to regain my joy in blogging for its own sake, by writing about things nobody else will care about, like weird proximate hotels and my coffee travails in Hamburg.
