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The “Passive Income” trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs
I think it’s also not too far from what most businesses end up doing, it just takes slightly longer to get there. See enshitification.
But zoom out and what you had was just an enormous machine converting human ambition into noise. Affiliate spam // dropshipped junk // ebooks about passive income // courses about courses. An entire layer of the internet that was nothing but confident-sounding bullshit produced by people who had optimized for everything except making something worth buying.
Source: The “Passive Income” trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs
Hally and Christy Prints
Discover handmade linocut prints of bold, whimsical animal characters in colourful outfits. Full of personality and charm. Perfect for unique gifts!
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Vestaboard
I Decompiled the White House’s New App
The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy’s GitHub Pages.
Protect Zoom Meetings from AI Bots | Office of Information Technology
On December 13, 2024, OIT began restricting access to certain AI assistant bots within Zoom and Microsoft 365. Restricting access to AI assistant bots will be an ongoing effort for OIT. Please see our Zoom App Marketplace service page for the most up-to-date approved or denied Zoom applications.
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From A German War Primer by Bertolt Brecht – Famous poems, famous poets. – All Poetry
THOSE WHO TAKE THE MEAT FROM THE TABLE Teach contentment. Those for whom the contribution is destined Demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill speak to the hungry Of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss Call ruling too difficult For ordinary men.
Source: From A German War Primer by Bertolt Brecht – Famous poems, famous poets. – All Poetry
Super Punch: Learned about a new guy
The growing world of AI illiteracy. The guy probably doesn’t want to know if the image is AI or not but “Grok said it was real” is a disheartening stance.
The Shape of Friction · Matthias Ott
The idea of productive toil and good friction is going to be increasingly important. I think a lot of the problems we have in the world are from people with too much power not having an friction in their decisions (like laws and morals . . . but also people just challenging their ideas – like the Meta verse). AI can really make this so much worse for everyone.
Source: The Shape of Friction
AI slop manners
slop is something that takes more human effort to consume than it took to produce. When my coworker sends me raw Gemini output he’s not expressing his freedom to create, he’s disrespecting the value of my time