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78,000 manufacturing jobs were lost in the one-year period ending in August

archive.ph/jIZja

“Brain rot” burst into public discourse as a shorthand for how endless, low-effort, engagement-bait content can dull human cognition—eroding focus, memory discipline, and social judgment through compulsive online consumption. If large language models learn from the same internet firehose, the question becomes unavoidable: what happens when we keep feeding models the digital equivalent of junk food?

llm-brain-rot.github.io/

#ai

"So we all just stood there, feeling weird about ourselves and each other."

hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2020/09/richard.html

"Gruber appears to be interested only in artistic product, not artistic process. I’m interested in both, as are most people, and our judgments of works of art are complex things that involve everything we know about both process and product."

blog.ayjay.org/judgment-day/

Read it later apps are 1% about reading it later and 99% about giving you permission to not read it now

Unified Theory of Everything no. 2349

I love a good design explanation post
Case in point, from @Jaredigital

jaredigital.com/weblogue/superconnected

"That was my cat..."

youtube.com/clip/Ugkx6G4zuBftTs-lnaNMYFxRtjy0badFOkw2?si=YgtFJxsdOcSk83wM