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it only took 2 years for people outside of twitter to realize they could use ai to reverse engineer subscription-based products

Imagine buying a company for $600M just to throw away the only product people loved and cared about so you can create a trendy subpar ai productivity app

I would love a web browser that has an agent in background disabling pop ups and constantly denying cookies so I can actually browse the web without being constantly interrupted, similar to adblock.

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Proud of this video I worked on for @0xprivacypools using public archival footage, a sprinkle of @ElevenLabs audio, and wholeee lot of editing. Self-custody cannot scale unless consumers are given the same peace of mind privacy that their bank provides.

Don’t think being alone in your waymo means you can start ripping big ones bc I’m the one who has to get in the car after your trip with an interior full of farts

Just heard “I don’t want my employer to know how many tokens I’m spending, that’s between me and god”

the more edu films I watch from the 50s the more it starts to feel like an mkultra hypnosis

my 70+ yr old dad was able to see the difference between fable and opus in a research report it made before I mentioned using a different model

happening now 🛟

My thoughts on Midjourney + Co-Star from someone with one foot in the tech world and the other in astrology: Ask someone for their birth chart on Twitter and 9 times out of 10 they’ll share a Co-Star screenshot. It’s a beautiful product, easy to read, and pings you short cryptic messages you’ll want to share on socials. Deep down everyone thinks they are truly unique from everyone else, and a birth chart is a great way to display their individuality, or joke about why they’re so fucked up. Co-Star is successful because many people don’t actually care about learning astrology, they see it as another thing to add to their dating profile like the initials of their Myers-Briggs test results. But when you leave the tech audience, you’ll find a swarm of people from the astrology community telling you everything that’s wrong with Co-Star. Common complaints from users claiming their placements weren’t accurate and the satirical copy that could easily trigger someone already mentally unwell. This hate largely stems from an interview with Chris Brennan where Banu mentions they used to troll people with lots of trines in their chart with messages like ‘go start a cult’. The feature was taken down, but gets brought up consistently as proof that it was never about accurate analysis. In my experience, the chart is accurate (with generalized placement interpretations) but the transits and copy is very chatgpt ‘it’s not x - it’s y’ and don’t line up with those of better astrology transit apps. IMO, just like AI psychosis, there is spiritual psychosis, and negative messages that tell people they will be lonely, miserable, or some sort of failure can easily one-shot someone who believes in astrology but lacks knowledge and/or discernment. I can see people in tech continue to use Co-Star simply because of the AI connection, and dismiss haters knowing there is a general hatred of AI being inaccurate that leads to an unwillingness to acknowledge what AI *can* make possible. But some may never actually learn astrology or work with an astrologer to discover how they can use it to optimize their life. And on the flipside, I see the opposite happening in the astro community, where one mention of AI in astro readings becomes not only a debate about accuracy but about moral ethics. What’s missing in the market is a consumer astrology app that actually helps people integrate astrology into their daily lives. Chani is a good example, but has too much bias in their interpretations. IMO this is partly why I think there’s a common misconception that astrology is only used by woo-woo girls. But there are successful CEOs, board members of major pharmaceutical companies, politicians from all sides and more who have personal astrologers. There’s a reason you’ll find zodiac paintings in J.P Morgans library, the Vatican, and archives of monarchs and other elites. And with the acceleration of tech (especially AI) it’s only going to increase the uncertainty in people’s lives about their future, and many will turn to divination to find answers they can’t find elsewhere.

imagine if they added this shit to mantracker 🤠

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Reminds me of Robin Collyer's photographs where he removed all the text from signs Yonge Street, Willowdale, 1995.

'i got hacked' is the new 'my dog ate my homework'