september 2 etc
I wrote this on both LinkedIn and Threads yesterday:
When the AI bubble pops, the aDaPt Or DiE AI evangelist techbros currently grifting on Twitter and LinkedIn are going to rebrand as "I always knew AI wasn't going to last!" gurus selling e-courses on remembering how to think. Remember that.
I have wanted to write some version of that for a year because LinkedIn is little more than a group of hucksters who change their tune every few years in order to sell courses and ebooks to credulous idiots who think the fifteen minutes they devoted to the Wim Hof Method in 2020 makes them founders. This emboldens other losers to do the same thing (on LinkedIn and on other platforms) and the end result is an internet that is largely unusable and deeply insipid. The internet is very important to me so it sucks beyond measure that it is little more than a shopping mall full of screaming clowns these days.
I used to defend LinkedIn. A lot. I'd say that there was a great website underneath all the each-sentence-is-a-paragraph posts that are meant to be interesting and informative but are always boring and obvious. I'd contend that it was still useful and important even though it was also an asylum for careerist sociopaths.
I have no breath left for these kinds of arguments. These days I'm less interested in defending LinkedIn and more interested in setting fire to it. When people feel like they need to be on a given platform, the folks who run the platform have no incentive to make it better —— and usually don't.
On y va!
🎵🎵 I was a record critic for a while and some people think this means I don't like mainstream bangers. They are wrong. For instance, I still listen to this track on the reg. (Spotify)
👀👀 I'm not going to explain Floor 796 I'm just going to ask you to trust me and go there and look around. If you need to click the About tab, click the About tab. (Floor 796)
🧩🧩 I do several puzzles a day because my biggest fear is jackalopes neurological disease and/or decline. If you are similarly concerned, take this little quiz thinger the New York Times published last year (it's one of my gift links, so no paywall) and see what's what. (NYT)
🤖👶 AI robot dolls are offering elderly citizens company in South Korea, doing things like "reminding them to take their medication or eat a meal." It's not perfect, but it's something. (Rest of World)
💛💛 RIP Graham Greene, an actor who almost always made whatever he was in a little bit deeper and more thoughtful. (Deadline)
🎭😂 New SNL cast members just dropped. (EW)
🦏🎲 Speaking of SNL, I rewatched one of my favourite recent sketches many, many times this past weekend. The good stuff starts at 2:38. (Reddit)
🏀⚾ This week's trivia questions are up at Oddball, so if you are so inclined, have at it. (oddball.blog)
🌲 gonna
🌼 go
🌱 touch
🌳 grass
🌷 now
Be good to yourself.
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