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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

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

The Social Media End Times

Casey Newton in Platformer at Meta Connect: ⁠⁠It went all but unmentioned on stage, but Meta says it is beginning to test content “imagined for you” by Meta AI on Facebook and Instagram. Meta will use your likeness and interests to generate photos and videos with AI, and you’ll

No Hallucinating, That’s An Ad

Marty Swant of Digiday has seen the Perplexity pitch deck for building an advertising business: > According to a copy of the pitch deck obtained by Digiday, the plan is to integrate ads within users’ queries and answers When the idea of using an LLM as a search engine started

There’s Both Too Much And Not Enough Attention

Charlie Warzel writing about his toilet theory of the internet: > I have precious little time to hook a reader with whatever I’m trying to get them to read—but also that my imagined audience of undistracted, fully engaged readers is an idealized one. It says a lot that

Engagement Farming For Reward

Ben Werdmuller writing about Threads trading trust for growth: > If X has fake news, Threads is assumed to have fake views: engagement by any means necessary. I did not know that Meta were incentivising engagement bait, but it now seems obvious. Despite my initial thoughts on liking Threads as

Blog Post Brain

Habib writing about their version of social media brain > Instead of scanning my surroundings for something relatable to turn into a social media post, I pay attention to blog posts and articles I read on the web. I’m constantly looking for anything of relevance that triggers and sparks

Hobbies & Hustles

Manuel Moreale thinking about the differences between hobbies and side projects: > A hobby is something one does for themselves. This blog is a hobby. I write on it because I find it enjoyable and the primary user is myself. And since it’s a hobby, money is not taken

Opening Your Wallet

Matt Birchler is an expert on payments, so when he writes about them, you listen: > I can’t see the future, and I don’t work directly in card issuance, but this is my very strong instinct. They want to win the payment volume game, and you don’t

Could Simplicity Be The Key?

Jared Henderson in a recent ParkNotes video on Commonplace Books (cleaned up by me): > I think that people found it refreshing to just be like oh I could just do this in a notebook and there's not like a system .. basically just a repository where I just