"At the time of writing he has over 160 million followers: a world record achieved without uttering a single word. In January he sold his brand rights for nearly US$1 billion." Good for dude 😎

#tinytalk @npr.org • De La Soul looks back on the story behind their J Dilla-produced track, "Stakes Is High," and explains why carrying on after Dave’s passing became a way to celebrate his life.⁠ ⁠ Host: @djcuzzinb • Bobby Carter/NPR⁠ Producer: @alanteserene • Alanté Serene/NPR

"The work suggests that Stone Age people were as clever as modern-day humans, according to researcher Ewa Dutkiewicz from Berlin's Museum of Prehistory and Early History. "So far, we've only scratched the surface of what can be found in terms of symbol sequences on a wide variety of artifacts..."

Watch our performance of “Different World” featuring Gina Loring on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, #ThankYouDave youtu.be/FocRkYsA0SU 📸: @toddowyoung.bsky.social

🧵👇 We’ve been rethinking self-hosting since the WPEngine vs WordPress blowup. With agents and tools like Warp, most of the old technical hurdles are basically gone.

📢 New #ATScience speaker! @simpsontw.bsky.social will present their project @skysquare.app : “Skysquare: context as a service.” Skysquare uses ATProtocol to reattach public discourse to its source, transforming the web into a socially annotated commons 📎

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NEW research: sparktoro.com/blog/new-res... If you give ChatGPT the same request for product recommendations 100X, will you ever get the same list twice? And what does that answer mean for folks who try to track their brand presence in AI tools? Finally, some real answers 🧐

💯 👇 "The new quality gate isn't reading syntax; it's verifying outcomes in live preview environments."

This—and FOSS—are the future 👇

When SEO was a new channel, we could track EVERYTHING it was so much easier ... keywords, persistent cookies, single device, etc. AI is a new channel & it's coming at a time when precise tracking is near impossible, making KPIs and success metrics tough, here's my .02. youtu.be/CdXZ9oRGNGA?...

In 1989 De La Soul would release it’s debut album, 3 Feet High and Rising. Widely considered a masterpiece, it redefined what hip-hop could be — playful, experimental, and unapologetically original.   Shop the collection now. www.levi.com/US/en_US/clo...

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Ever feel like a friend, a culture—or even yourself—is starting to fade into the din of the feed? Each scroll, a little deeper into confirmation bias. Each post, a worldview drifting further from our neighbors. Every reaction, more out of context. Until all that’s left is the echo of who we were...

gpt-5 is for code.

💯👇 "Now, with execution-first AI, that reality is here. Instead of clicking through dashboards, filling forms, and pressing buttons, AI can simply carry out the task directly. And that makes the traditional UI obsolete." Srinivas Rao on Medium: skooloflife.medium.com/the-extincti...

This is so, so, so dope. We're officially at peak SaaS, adjust your portfolios folks: docs.warp.dev/features/war...

In @warp.dev with Claude Sonnet and it told me this: "The nano editor was opened, but in a headless terminal environment, I can't directly edit the file through nano. I should use sed or other command-line tools to make the changes." Sounds like it natively wants to do AI agent work, doesn't it?

Working with @elevenlabs.io a lot lately, cool stuff is coming 👀👀👇👇

This is WILD! 🤯 Cross-platform conversational AI agents with @elevenlabs.io and @expo.dev react native DOM components! Detailed cookbook coming soon, but code already linked below if you can't wait! 👇

WordPress still the champ, y'all... www.therepository.email/wordpress-se...

My hottest take remains to be: 4k TV is a regression. Aside from sports where more detail is better, everything else these days looks like a 1990s soap opera shot on high end home video. Take me back to shallow depth of field please 🙏

AI for writing is like the escalator. It was meant to speed things up, but most just stand still and let it do all the work.

NBC News is being kicked out of its space in the Pentagon and replaced by OANN.

New: One America News Network would soon replace NBC News and Breitbart would swap with National Public Radio in coveted Pentagon press corps workspace under a plan shared with journalists Friday night. www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/m...

I've just realized something pretty important: AI could soon supplant the dominance of the algorithmic feed for news discovery. Rather than scrolling and following, we'll be able to setup AI assistants—who will know everything about us—to scan the news, identify relevant info and deliver it to us.

"Will young developers take on key open source software?" featuring a little yours truly https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly7n2jm5m5o

"It's not that China's AI is "surpassing the US," but rather that "open source models are surpassing proprietary ones," LeCun said in a post on Threads." www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-yann...

❤️👇👇👂👂👂👂 music.youtube.com/watch?v=9HTY...

Consider changes deploying to marketing automation right now: AI agents that track your social posts across all channels, analyze your comments and the content you share/amplify/like; collate and analyze your online behavior, including time online; then hyper targeting you with contextual messaging.

The future isn't just personalized ads, it's personalized everything—a website tailored to your inferred preferences, generated in the milliseconds between your click and your experience; a movie whose plot appeals to your deepest sensibilities, starring you and your fave actors, on demand...

"Madison Avenue has been rapidly changing for over a decade, but the threats to an industry once centered on creatives have never been so great... AI is sending shock waves through the marketing world, promising to create and personalize ads cheaper and faster than ever." archive.is/2024.12.20-1...

Not me asking Claude and chatGPT if they agree these coding errors are annoying as if they're real people... (They did both agree tho fwiw...)

Bluesky now offers a video news feed, making it a credible alternative to TikTok.

Quick shout to all the marketing folks making their way to connect via @randfish.bsky.social's LinkedIn post 👋🙏

I can’t believe TikTok is basically our Reichstag

A real world proof of a foundational law of UI/UX 👇

My canned reply to the cold outreach from marketing agency saas providers: "This offer made sense in 2022. Now I have ChatGPT. Good luck 🫶"

What it looks like when you forgot to build a symbolscape 👇👇👇

Saw an interesting post in Google news, so I clicked. Goes straight to a long leadgen form. 🥴 WTF? Bro, I’m still in awareness mode, what's the offer here? ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ Result? Pogostick! ✌️ Classic example of how an agency completely wastes a client’s budget, and loses an opportunity.

Here is a pic of Murano for your morning zen ☕️

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

"misinformation is powerful, not because it changes minds, but because it allows people to maintain their beliefs in light of growing evidence to the contrary" from @cwarzel.bsky.social and Mike Caufield www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

x X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app? If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.

Exxon Mobil sued California’s attorney general, the Sierra Club and other environmental groups on Monday. The lawsuit alleges that they conspired to defame the oil giant and kneecap its business prospects amid a debate over whether plastics can be recycled effectively.

"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...