Peter Lewis

If there’s one thing we know about Warner Brothers is when it’s sold it stays sold and it always works out well for the company that bought it.

My theory:

Macro people look at crude markets (over supplied, fairly benign)

Energy people look at product markets (oh god did another refinery just blow up?)

A bold late-career pivot, but he was still typecast after all the Thin Man sequels

Believe in your work. Stop ending papers with “More research is needed” and start concluding with “No more research on this topic is needed.”

Imagine taking something that's led to tons of death threats against professionals in different sports (video games included) and thinking it would be a good idea to stake it on politicians' lives instead

WTF does this mean?

deepfake images are getting out of control

It took me forever to make these, and then the museum just comes up with this whole other back story

i'm taking a brave stance that may get me canceled: there is no reason for the pervert glasses to exist

I was wondering why the guided meditations on this podcast felt so quick and easy… turns out that removing the silent parts is a real game changer

Commuter rail systems should just start closing one station every year, in the town that approves the fewest new housing units

Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.

False text meaning hallucinated/summarized, or from the wrong document?

Now let me design the plan with a Plan agent. [...] Excellent analysis from the Plan agent.

claude giving claude a medal never gets old

Where are the Customers' Bots? For investors in consumer-facing sectors, the most important question about agentic AI is where it will drive increased price discovery. But even as this discourse heats up, it still has some major bl...

New from me: what would it look like for a consumer AI agent to really be aligned with consumers' interests, and what will it take for that kind of agent to emerge?
www.thedrawingboard.net/where-are-th...

FWIW I think the real plan for in-store surveillance pricing is targeted coupons on your phone (and it hasn’t been all that effective)

I do like Spotify’s new VH1 Pop Up Video notes, even if they’re a little LLM-padded

Genuinely unsettling, like an alien imitating Mr Rogers

Pauline YouTube video by Eleni Mandell - Topic

One of the all-time single-chord jams, this Eleni Mandell classic has a lip-smacking malevolence that’s all the keener for being underplayed. I always savor the bongo fills that enter around 1:31; they sound like a rattlesnake. #dailysong youtu.be/FKglgs3H1Uc

It’s especially hard if you’re relying on Spotify, where the credits are wrong so often that I rarely check them anymore. I wonder what “Zedtone” is

I've Got A Tender Heart

This is a cover of a little-known late Merle Haggard song when his voice was going, and Eleni Mandell’s version is much better. It’s actually hard to tell the covers from the originals on this ”country” album, which is a real credit to her songwriting
open.spotify.com/track/57M2Cp...

"What do you mean I'm not allowed to talk at the school again?"

the amount of bovine-gaze confidence with which some people insist that "using LLMs means you aren't learning" seems to suggest that they've never typed "explain the impact and meaning of these two alternatives, with examples" to them

which—because they have not learned how to use LLMs—tracks, tbh

not once have I ever needed a text message or email summarized in my entire fucking life

Opening paragraphs, #14:
Harry Mathews

SCIF = Some Closet in Florida

The Last Samurai, or Zuleika Dobson

Claude flattering me: “Okay, now I have a really clear picture. Let me also check on lan Pointer's blog post since he literally seems to have tried LEAF + ModernBERT already.”

“But Doctor…”

Yeah it did strike me as an odd hill to die on, in comparison to domestic surveillance

Even the WSJ is now mixing up marginal and blended tax rates?
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...