Algorithm & Adverts
Social platforms, ones that allow people to communicate, share ideas and find common ground, can be a net benefit — but its the platform part thats the issue
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Scoring Things
Manuel Moreale writing about their inability to Score Books:
I suck at this. I genuinely don’t know how to rate things on a scale, which is why the vast majority of the books I rate are either 4 or 4.5.
I can’t score things. Not books, not
I Did It Myself
Despite me being adoptive of LLM usage to aid my work from a fairly early stage, there’s a lot of frustration brewing. No, not the fact that Open AI made ChatGPT dumber and less able to produce quality results, the fact that I have to deal with sloppers in
Runna Levels And Engagement Bait
In a recent Reddit post, Runna announced a new experimental feature aimed at improving running motivation. That's right, seeing your real-world fitness improve and times go down isn’t enough, there’s a need to gamify everything to boost engagement — introducing Levels!
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iPhone Day Weirdness
There’s no point in the post other than to point out some weirdness that I found in the new products and announcements. You are welcome to reply with your own or despute mine.
* iPhone Air - not iPhone 17 Air. A hint at naming convention going forwards? Perhaps they
Torremolinos Shaddows
A few more from our trip to Spain
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Slow IS Fast
When I wrote about running slow back in May, I wasn’t really sure I believed it. I was trying it because everything else had left me tired, injured, or frustrated, but I still had that nagging sense I was going backwards. I hated how it felt, and I can
Arsenal vs Athletic Club
Web Users Don't Follow Links Anymore
In news that will surprise absolutely no one, Athena Chapekis reports for Pew Research that Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results:
Google users who encounter an AI summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than