andrew wright 🐿 🔥

Achieving victory one failure at a time.

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

@effthealgorithm enshittification of everything

X is filled with comments mentioning the negative returns of AI and AI bubble. While that may be the case for most "out of context" topics, the difference AI is making is clear across industries. Here's latest stats for asset management companies:

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Wall Street’s newest hires don’t have MBAs. They’re Grok, Claude, and GPT. And @auquan_'s agents. Great talking to Daniel Singer on who can encode real institutional judgment into AI built for finance. Finance is standardizing on a two layer model. Foundation models that can read, reason, and operate across tools, and a vertical layer where firms hard wire their underwriting logic, risk culture, and controls. In high stakes workflows like credit, raw model intelligence breaks quickly. What works are tightly constrained agents embedded in audited, repeatable workflows. Systems that behave like experienced associates following the firm’s playbooks, not generic AI assistants. This shift moves the advantage from hiring more analysts to turning judgment into infrastructure, where scale comes from software rather than headcount. Worth a read if you are thinking seriously about AI in finance: startuphub.ai/ai-news/artifi…

@edthesoundman It’s better when it doesn’t try to be skeuomorphic with tiny faux rusty screw controls

Is modern technology user friendly?

@edthesoundman I love playing jamband music

Pro tip: Music that’s fun to play isn’t always fun to listen to.

@nicnacnaturals @RealCirrus @hubermanlab It’s insane that I can’t buy this in Maryland

@RealCirrus @hubermanlab Thank you so much for your support! 👏 We really tried to formulate the cleanest nicotine product on the market, we’re also very picky and wanted something we’d actually be comfortable consuming lol

Do you use non-smoked (or vaped, or dipped) nicotine? It’s an interesting stimulant b/c it also tends to relax people. It can be habit-forming & it does raise blood pressure. Not carcinogenic on its own. The oral health MDs & dermatologists tell me it’s bad for teeth & skin.

@justinamash There is a process though, and it doesn’t run in vibes

Many people are claiming a president must spend whatever Congress has appropriated. While this is generally true, it is not true in the absolute sense. A president can legitimately refuse to spend money if he or she believes and asserts that the specific spending is unconstitutional. The president’s discretion here is connected to an aspect of the separation of powers that is often ignored or mistakenly denied. Each branch has an independent obligation to interpret and uphold the Constitution within its sphere of power and responsibility: making laws, executing laws, or deciding cases.

@calleymeans How quickly y’all shifted from anti-war to conquer-hungry imperialists

Denmark is not a friend to the US. Half the country’s economic growth is from one company, Novo Nordisk. The majority of Novo’s profits come from rigging US healthcare laws (top 10 lobbying spender) and charging taxpayers 14 TIMES more for Ozempic than they pay.

For five years, I have been covering what is unquestionably the biggest criminal justice scandal in American history. Today it ended when the most corrupt cop in history took his life. But it's not over. A thread.

@washingtonpost Democracy dies in a food coma

Here are some of our favorite uses for leftovers from our recipe archives to help you make the most of surplus turkey, vegetables, mashed potatoes, stuffing and cranberry sauce. wapo.st/4ikgyPM

@SurfThrash Monday lineup and no Friday lineup is weird!

It’s reported that 670,000 people attended the 3 day festival in total. Heavy Metal Sunday drew the largest crowd with an estimated 500,000 attendees. New Wave Saturday drew an estimated 160-200,000 attendees.

no one tell Cher about my other songs

The last thing you see before waking up in a bathtub with one kidney

@AlanLevinovitz Dems have ceded this space to conspiracy theorists on the right. There is big reform needed to address aggressively marketed ultraprocessed foods, basing scool lunches on them, regulatory capture, etc. But Dems and allies seem to think there’s no role for govt on this. Crazy.

There's been a LOT about why RFK Jr is a terrible pick, but I want to focus on something that is very concerning to me, but no one seems to be mentioning. He appeals to a widespread, common-sense idea that the problem with our food is that it has "lots of artificial ingredients". Get the artificial ingredients out — no chemical additives! no food dyes! no high fructose corn syrup! — and our health problems magically resolve. This is 100% incorrect, and fundamentally misunderstands the problems with our food system.

@AlanLevinovitz While not arguing with the facts you lay out, this is like Dems saying “we have the best economy and the people are wrong for thinking otherwise!” Chronic illness is epidemic with Americans - esp kids! - and highly addictive unhealthy ultra processed foods are a big cause.

@HeathMayo Watching Dems + allies scoff at the idea that there’s a serious problem with our food/health system as our chronic illness epidemic worsens - esp with kids - while M*GA seizes upon the issue is disheartening to watch. RFK Jr should not have been given this opening.

@HeathMayo People didn’t change, the system did. Aggressive mktg of addictive ultra processed foods to kids + adults (+basing school lunches on them). Inadequate regs + reg capture by big ag/pharma. A health system focused on treatment over prevention + wellness.

Government isn’t going to make us eat healthier—we’re going to have to do that ourselves. Practically every major food brand has already developed organic and lower-calorie options in response to consumer demand. Plus, the “artificiality” of an ingredient has nothing to do with whether it is healthier for our bodies. If we want to be healthier, we need to choose to eat smaller and healthier portions. It’s that simple. Neither the government nor the food manufacturers can make that choice for us. Only we can.