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Sometimes an image stays with you for years. When the first photo of Henry Cavill as Superman was released, it instantly felt iconic — Superman ...

*“Swormlure-5… is a potent synthetic attractant that mimics the scent of open wounds, drawing adult screwworm flies to the bait, where they die.”*

USDA, TDA to deploy Swormlure Bait in eradication effort against NWS

The pest control method, combined with sterile fly production, was successful in eradicating NWS decades ago.

*Our education systems, social safety nets, and concept of "work" are the Kodak and Blockbuster of social structures — optimized for a linear world*

AI's Social Trap

The article argues that society is trapped in reactive, experience-based thinking that worked for linear innovation but is fatally inadequate fo...

*The complexity that feels insurmountable at the macro level dissolves when you tackle it step by step, in tighter scope. AI excels at that. The real constraint isn't complexity — it's whether the context can be digitized. And most institutional knowledge, given time and the right tooling, can be.*

The Workplace Blind Spot

Most knowledge workers assume their role's complexity will protect them from AI. I held the same belief — until I was proven wrong, twice. The mo...

*bottlenecks are not natural obstacles – they are, in most cases, the consequence of increasing production until you hit a bottleneck. If AI removes a bunch of bottlenecks, that won’t be used to produce the same output faster and cheaper, it will be used to produce a lot more output until a new bottleneck is reached and requires human intervention*

finally we have created the silver bullet

from Fred Brooks' classic essay "No Silver Bullets"

The more chilling the winter, the more glorious the spring

*There's no firewall between the most capable people in business and the power of the state, business and state are just tools wielded as leverage over society in general. People tend to either think that businesses run the government, or that the government interferes with business, when in reality they are levers on the same machine.*

Stacker News

Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for All \ stacker news

Not just another money-grubbing lawsuit This stuff really freaks me out. Apparently, people are suing Meta and YouTube and all the other social med...

*The deeper story is this: for decades, COBOL modernization was a lucrative, slow-moving professional services business precisely because the complexity was intractable without armies of specialists. AI doesn't just make that cheaper — it potentially makes the entire consulting model obsolete. When the cost of understanding legacy code drops to near zero, the business model built on that cost collapses.* Claude

*Be small enough that the competitve pressure doesn't distort your priorities. Be opinionated enough that you can't be dragged into building the same thing as everyone else. Be capitally efficient enough that you don't need the growth rate that forces you onto the treadmill. Be weird enough that nobody can copy you without becoming you.*

Westenberg.

Everyone in AI is building the wrong thing for the same reason

Every AI founder I talk to is on an accelerating treadmill, burdened by a nagging suspicion that the entire industry is moving too fast in a direct...

*Fear is there to give you important information, not to paralyze you* View quoted note →

*Everyone is trying to figure out how to be their own boss before the system breaks* View quoted note →

*Extraction is psychological before it is financial* View quoted note →

*Get your financial house in order. I'm not a financial advisor, and I'm not trying to scare you into anything drastic. But if you believe, even partially, that the next few years could bring real disruption to your industry, then basic financial resilience matters more than it did a year ago. Build up savings if you can. Be cautious about taking on new debt that assumes your current income is guaranteed. Think about whether your fixed expenses give you flexibility or lock you in. Give yourself options if things move faster than you expect.* View quoted note →

*Build the habit of adapting. This is maybe the most important one. The specific tools don't matter as much as the muscle of learning new ones quickly. AI is going to keep changing, and fast. The models that exist today will be obsolete in a year. The workflows people build now will need to be rebuilt. The people who come out of this well won't be the ones who mastered one tool. They'll be the ones who got comfortable with the pace of change itself. Make a habit of experimenting. Try new things even when the current thing is working. Get comfortable being a beginner repeatedly. That adaptability is the closest thing to a durable advantage that exists right now.* View quoted note →

*it seems like [Bitcoin's] still at the whims of competing incentives, narratives and politics* View quoted note →

*the first-of-its-kind study makes one thing clear: next time you’re stressed, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to go for a jog, or something else that gets your heart rate up* Scientists Find Intense Psychological Differences in People Who Exercise

Futurism

Scientists Find Intense Psychological Differences in People Who Exercise

Researchers found a major difference how those who exercise regularly manage stress compared to those who don't.

There is no guarantee that the Fiat 🐛 will be displaced by the Bitcoin 🦋 . Nor do we know the timescales of success or failure.

*The mechanism is simple: borrow → pay interest → borrow more to cover the interest → repeat. Every debt spiral in history follows this script. The only variable is how long the bond market plays along.* View quoted note →

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