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Maxime Eyraud retweeted
May 15
"working class" is anyone who still has to Post
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May 5
This is a cool (new-ish?) feature from Spotify.
I haven't caved since I don't like audiobooks but I imagine the recommandation-to-listening pipeline must be quite high. Podcasts are well-known for leading to book sales.
I wonder if the rec is host-made or automated?
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May 3
There's actually an entire genre out there
Apr 10
"you better not be a pensive speckled stoneware bottle when I get there"
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May 1
Stupid prediction, because why not:
A new discipline (and, inevitably, a new class of grifters) will emerge to teach agents the same best practices we have IRL: Amazon's writing culture and two-pizza teams, RACI, "stakeholder alignment", etc.
May 1
Research proves that current AI agent groups cannot reliably coordinate or agree on simple decisions.
Building teams of AI agents that can consistently agree on a final decision is surprisingly difficult for LLMs.
But problem is that developers frequently assume that if you have enough AI agents working together, they will eventually figure out how to solve a problem by talking it through.
This paper shows that this assumption is currently wrong. Even in a friendly environment where every agent is trying to help, the team often gets stuck or stops responding entirely. Because this happens more often as the group gets bigger, it means we cannot yet trust these agent systems to handle tasks where they must agree on a correct answer.
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Paper Link – arxiv. org/abs/2603.01213
Paper Title: "Can AI Agents Agree?"
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Maxime Eyraud retweeted
Apr 30
Lofi Beats truly is the encapsulation of 21st century culture: an easy-to-digest monocultural soundtrack heard in cafés around the world, made by quasi-anonymous artists, played in a Chaykaian algorithm stream
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Maxime Eyraud retweeted
Apr 26
Rage baiting
Thirst trapping
Vague Posting
Clip Farming
The 4 Horsemen of the attention economy apocalypse.
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Apr 25
Maisonrickie does excellent analysis of concepts like Bourdieu's distinction, habitus, etc. without ever dumbing down his content.
He understands taste better than most people waving it around on this app
this is such a good breakdown of the fascination with any kind of content that is tradwife adjacent and how it's linked to the sociological theory of conspicuous waste among other things (and what the uranus in taurus transit was all about)
(via maisonrickie on ig)
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Maxime Eyraud retweeted
It’s not just new, it’s newspeak
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Apr 17
I dare you to find a more French song than this song about cheese.
open.spotify.com/track/33Syh…
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Apr 10
"you better not be a pensive speckled stoneware bottle when I get there"
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Apr 6
There are many factors to this.
Lack of space - especially in cities.
Logistics - mispriced gems like these are often sold by older people in remote areas who can't or don't want, to handle the logistics. Many Parisian stairs can't even accomodate this stuff.
Apr 5
An example of how cheap great quality antique furniture is now. This George III mahogany secretaire bookcase originally sold in the 1980s for £29,000, this just sold on the 2nd of April for £400 at auction.
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Apr 6
If you know how to use Google Lens and have the car and the time to move around, there's probably a lot to do. Buy, curate, bring context.
Just be aware that "mispriced" is a fuzzy concept and your buyer group may be super premium but is also very small.
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Apr 6
Also interesting to observe micro-trends on second-hand apps.
For example Lumax glass ashtrays (yes it's niche) can command high prices just because the model was supposedly designed by Perriand.
So small items can serve as entry points into a designer's work in that way.
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Apr 5
Fascinating and envigorating conversation between @jacksondahl and @mynameisceline on cultivating one's curiosity, and helping others do the same.
Resonated deeply with some long-held convictions of mine.
Probably my favorite episode so far!
open.spotify.com/episode/7iD…
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Maxime Eyraud retweeted
Apr 3
sorry but "put data centers in space" won't cut it.
every generation had its version of pushback - luddites, nuclear protests, GMO bans. the @PessimistsArc is full of them.
the difference now is that the public is networked - the cost of revolt has collapsed to zero - a single viral moment can fck-up 10 years of regulatory work.
the real lesson of the last 10-15 years is that the general public is a now a STAKEHOLDER.
you cannot build in their neighborhoods, in their bodies, in their infrastructure, and pretend they're not in the room. "let's go to space" is just the latest version of pretending they're not in the room.
technology - now exponential across AI, bio, robotics, all hitting simultaneously - needs a better story.
one that at best invites the public into the future being built or at MINIMUM is honest and transparent about what that future looks like and why it matters. top down PR doesn't cut it - people smell bullshit from miles away - even from space lol
we need an actual narrative about the world we want, written collectively, even though it's chaotic and nonlinear and we don't have all the answers yet.
the founders who get this are building narrative alongside product from day one. the ones who don't are building in a vacuum - and won't survive the revolt of the public (cc @mgurri).
Apr 2
Maine is poised to freeze large data-center construction, which would make it the first state to enact such a measure as communities across the U.S. grapple with fallout from the AI boom on.wsj.com/4tIF3Lt
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Maxime Eyraud retweeted
Mar 25
everything online looks like this now
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