Q: What are Pop, Crackle, Snap, and Hiss? A: Four things I have never heard from my music in 40 years since I got my first CD player. The sheer joy of throwing out a stack of shitty hissy sounding tapes was profound. I finally took my 900 lp's to the record store in 1990 and got about $1500 for them. I have never regretted either of those decisions once in my life.

Strangely, I now have Tinnitus - it sounds just like the evil hiss of a cassette tape. It really does seem like life is not without a sense of humor.

You mean like Google Flights? Google plays with a few apps, but they don't play with the serps willy-nilly.

Getting tired of every time the gorilla sets where it wants too, we decide it is about the thing that was flattened and not about the gorilla.

...Sooner or later, we have to deal with the Gorilla.

No doubt - full on Google is the goal.

This is no different from when all the streaming services turned their lowest subscription into 'ad supported'. Where was the outrage there?

A Morpheus asked Neo, "What is Real"? There is no entity we call "AI" that is a universal definition. No way this stuff holds up in court.

Also, lets not forget that the 'Rush was born in Russia and the bulk of SemRush's tech was built by Russian coders who are no longer with the company after it left.

Q) Who needs funding in AI?

A) everyone but Google.

If a bot can get the content without logging in, then so can a human. You can not call content behind a simple JavaScript screen "paywalled".

I think we're looking at the wrong metaphor when we talk about the Nvidia-China / US AI "race." There's *no* finish line in AI - it's more about innovation, system-building, and capacity than a single "winner". That matters because when we talk about one-side owinning, we assume: a) an endpoint, b) uniform criteria for a win, and c) that everyone plays by the same freaking rules.

In reality:

• AI progress depends on many moving parts - hardware, software, data, talent, regs, infrastructure.
• The US-China differ so much in strengths and constraints that a winner takes all model doesn't fit here.
• If China builds a large scale system or captures large share, that doesn't mean the we lose. Both sides can advance in different ways.

I am concerned that framing it as a race might lead to urgency-driven shortcuts in safety and ethics.

So when Jensen says China "is going to win the AI race", what he might be signalling is: China will win its version of dominating infrastructure or deployment for various kinds of AI, but that doesn't equate to a final victory in AI writ large.

For us thinking about strategy (in SEO, marketing or tech), the takeaway is: Dudes, there's no finish line. We should ask instead: What infrastructures are being built? How will ecosystems evolve? What are the governance, data flows, talent networks doing? And where can you position yourself within that evolving system?

Really cool to hear today that Lilly is working on a version of Brenipatide + GLP+GIP (Mounjaro/wegovy) that is specifically to treat addictions like alcohol and opiode use disorder.

That the diet of the American people - not by choice - has been degraded by money grubbing corporates that have addicted ppl to crap food through marketing and over processed foods? Yes, I agree with that.

nice! You are one of the very few who can do that. I ran marathons for years and couldn't keep it off on 1500 calories a day. But on tirzepatide, I was doing 600-800 cal a day and dropped 110lbs in 10 months.

>obesity rates have grown dramatically in America over the last few decades.

Yes, carbs in the avg diet went up in the 70-80's by a stunning 40-55% (google it - cdc "Trends in Intake of Energy and Macronutrients --- United States, 1971--2000"). That increase equals those in their 40's and 50's getting over weight from 90's to 10's... Sugars are the great enemy of the healthy.

Maintenance of lost weight and long-term management of obesity: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a...

> lack of exercise

Is not an issue for most over weight. I ran marathons for a few years and put on weight.

>What will their health be like in the long term

Mass majority drop in A1C, liver enzymes stabilize, cholesterol comes down, blood pressure comes down, heart rate comes down. All that is good news for health long term.