Another jobs report. Another month where AI failed to take our jobs.

nope. anthropic made a dataset including fake emails implying a nonexistent engineer was having an affair and the chatbot emitted words related to words from those fake emails implying a fictitious affair. then a bunch of dipshit frauds at anthropic made the home alone face and ran around the house.

“If they couldn’t be bothered to write this, why should we be bothered to read it?” ‼️ In their cathartic, broligarchy-rattling new book, “The AI Con,” @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social are handing out needles so you, too, can burst the hype bubble. www.esckey.co/do-you-belie...

LLMs are nothing more than models of the distribution of the word forms in their training data, with weights modified by post-training to produce somewhat different distributions. Unless your use case requires a model of a distribution of word forms in text, indeed, they suck and aren't useful.

Here are a few questions the NYT propaganda-as-news-service could have answered instead of the ridiculous ones they asked.

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

#Copywriters. You are still needed, my god, you are still needed. But the market that 'gets' the value you bring is completely different from the pre-AI era. It's also a lot more fun to work with. Keen to find out more? Join Writers Against the Algorithm! I'm speaking tomorrow on this subject 💪

Step inside our sunny office. It really is sunny, because we live in Lanzarote 😂 But seriously, our website has had a few updates, check them out: chiefstudio.co.uk ✌️

Fucking hell what are we doing 🤦‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Episode 54: “AI” Agents, A Single Point of Failure in which @mmitchell.bsky.social comes back to the pod to sift through agentic nonsense with me and @alexhanna.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis... Thx to @whatulysses.bsky.social for production!

Nice little milestone: we’re now on @Zyppy.com! It’s a curated directory of vetted marketing agencies and consultants. As a product marketing agency, it’s great to be recognised for doing one thing well 🙏 zyppy.com/list/compani...

Spectacular content for your Saturday reading… Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? velvetshark.com/ai-company-l...

Thanks Rand 🙏🙏

Super proud to get our little agency (it’s just me and @sophieoxley.bsky.social) accepted into @zyppy.com… It’s a super cool and much needed human-curated directory of the best marketing agencies and consultants. Thanks Cyrus 🙏

🕺🕺 I’m back, baby. Can’t wait to hang out with the Misfits in London next month at @microconf.com ‘s Growth Retreat! Discount code below if you’re after a ticket to the magic ❤️

New great piece from @emilymbender.bsky.social explaining the problem with "AI" framing. "If what you are doing is sensible and grounded science, there is...a more precise way to describe it that bolsters rather than undermines the interest and value of your research." buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

As an elder millennial, I'm super excited to experience my fifth "once-in-a-lifetime" event since high school.

I swear my entire day is just dismissing suggestions from Grammarly.

I wrote about the kind of content marketing that actually works in 2025. What got you here won't get you there. Time to face some hard truths. jayacunzo.com/blog/the-kind-of-content-marketing-that-actually-works-in-2025

🚩 🚩 🚩 Red flags for AI hype 🚩 🚩 🚩 Award-winning reporter @karenhao.bsky.social leads @pulitzercenter.bsky.social's AI Spotlight Series training journos on critical AI literacy. But what about *readers*? How do you more critically read? Hao reveals the red flags here: www.esckey.co/how-to-hype-...

If we include ChatGPT, what is Google's *REAL* market share of search? After years of speculation, we finally have enough reliable data to build high quality numbers for both services. I think you'll be quite surprised; I definitely was! New research here: sparktoro.com/blog/new-res...

Hey man I live in Lanzarote! We’re visiting La Palma soon. What are you shooting on? Looks sick. Film or digital ?

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

This is a really great piece

“Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.” Gotta love Jane, right? So many good ones in light of today’s shit show in the Oval Office.

Straight from a Google Gemini 2.0 Flash marketing email: Get ready for many actionable insights, a productivity boost, and the seamless experience of… well, doing things seamlessly. 🤦‍♀️ #ai

032c published online my interview with the master of writing Shane Anderson - most delirious and most objective interview on AI ever. 032c.com/magazine/wha...

"By releasing Nepenthes, he hopes to do as much damage as possible, perhaps spiking companies' AI training costs, dragging out training efforts, or even accelerating model collapse..." 🙌🏽✊🏽 arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Dang, @aleejudge.bsky.social knows how to get the most from his guests. I ranted. I raved. I yelled like a madman, arguing passionately for what I'm convinced is the only way forward in marketing. Plus, some nice production values & editing to make me look smarter than I am 😎

theick.app is in 3rd place atm on @uneed.best… Plz go show us some love, let’s see if we can get a little higher 😬 www.uneed.best/tool/ickapp 🙏

Hey everyone, just a little reminder that I have a Starter Pack of people who offer writing resources, tips, advice and training. I’m looking for more people to add to it, so please can you share this post to help me find more #writers go.bsky.app/L5YqWf1

🚀 BIG NEWS: I've just offered 50% OFF to EVERYONE in Uneed's waiting list to help clear our 100+ days queue! Expect a massive wave of new product launches and significantly increased traffic on Uneed in the next few days. 1/2

We’re live on @uneed.best. Please check out @theick.app and give us an upvote if you’re interested in what we’re trying to achieve. www.uneed.best/tool/ickapp Thanks again to @tsanlis.bsky.social for creating the best Product Hunt alternative ✌️

Oh Wānaka ❤️ 🇳🇿

@uneed.best 👀

We did it 🥹 $2M ARR, bootstrapped, team of 5. In 2020, we asked: ❌ Why are forms boring & expensive? ❌ Why do they look bad? What if: ✅ Forms could be fun and budget-friendly? ✅ We built an independent company? So proud of this @tally.so milestone—latest update here: blog.tally.so/we-crossed-2...

Exactly right, @grammargirl.bsky.social: “ “I love em dashes, and they aren’t inherently a sign of bad writing,”… though she does believe it’s a problem if they show up too often. “One em dash is like shining a spotlight on something. Five em dashes are like a nighttime sale at a car dealership.” “

Apart from that they do. Two things can be true: you can ❤️ the “—“ (I do) and also admit that ChatGPT uses about two per sentence. That’s irrefutable (unless you prompt it not to, though it still overuses them). So, it isn’t as black and white as clickbait like this would have you believe.

Didn’t you hear? ick is now free 🎉 Sign up: theick.app

Grok 3 is here! ‘The world’s smartest AI’, according to its owner.

Going ⬆️

It would be interesting to know, @tsanlis.bsky.social, what the % of launches are AI in some way? Because no offence to Uneed, which is bloody awesome, I feel like all launch platforms nowadays are just 90% AI products. It’s prob not that high, but be interesting to know.

60! Ffs I feel overwhelmed by 3-5. What are the top 10 do you reckon , @olenabomko.bsky.social ?

I love going through @uneed.best and PH each day, but I wish there was a “No-AI” badge on the (very few) launches that aren’t AI. It’s prob not something that the majority of people looking at these platforms want, because, well, because of the obvious. But it’s what I want. So, yeh 🤷‍♂️

It could be worse. You could be James Langridge, who thought comparing marketing to women’s breasts was a thing he should do.

LinkedIn is kicking off, in case anyone hadn’t seen.

Just people loving our app. Thanks @jodelacourt.bsky.social ! 🙌

What’s the plan to make it rowdier?

“Grok 3 is designed to be a nuclear propaganda weapon, and Musk is proud of it.”