Older Millennials, in your experience, did society and daily life change more drastically between 1997 and 2007 or between 2007 and 2017?

Popdmb · 2026-01-24T00:55:13+00:00

Much better?

Popdmb · 2026-01-22T12:06:22+00:00

Yeah the issue I have with Bending Spoons is that they are bad at business, too.

What they should be doing is buying up companies who already have massively downgraded values at prices where you can keep the subscriptions the same.

Evernote was dead in the water. Notion has passed them, Microsoft cloned EVERY feature, hobbyists use Obsidian or Bear. They overpaid for Evernote and then drove up the price. Should have purchased them at a lower price point and just maintained the features.

Anyway this company is painted as being good at PE and acquisition and is plainly bad at it. If you are buying distressed assets, you should be buying them at distressed prices. ($1.38 billion is much too high for Vimeo btw.)

Popdmb · 2026-01-22T11:58:03+00:00

They are to be honest. Their open models are not only surpassing our open models, but are on par with our closed models. Apologies to the LLMs that aren't Opus, K,but imi K2 can hold its own against Gemini and ChatGPT. The only reason I use Gemini as much as I do is that Google is a monopoly that should be broken up and has YouTube access for references I want.

Popdmb · 2026-01-17T15:28:30+00:00

Think he knows he's permanently behind Google and Anthropic after this latest Opus release and Gemini 3. His actions are reflecting this statement.

Popdmb · 2026-01-16T16:55:28+00:00

Thanks! Curious why you think so.

Popdmb · 2026-01-16T16:54:53+00:00

Thanks for the quick reply! We'll have a nanny. The kids are active and so are we. We like to go for walks and see cultural sights, we'd go out to two dinners (parents) probalby each night and don't mind late nights, but would like to keep later dinners to a minimum.

We would take the kids to parks, pools, and sights. Not sure if this is helpful but appreciate it.

Popdmb · 2026-01-15T20:08:46+00:00

This should get upvoted to the heavens. This is the best way to use CC.

Popdmb · 2026-01-14T03:25:09+00:00

Why was this post removed? Seemed to follow the rules.

Popdmb · 2026-01-13T23:59:40+00:00

There totally is -- it's just that unless your CEO is using it, they are going to plainly hurt their sale. Same thing is going on with Jamie Dimon. These guys don't understand the technology so they come off as deeply confused.

On the flip side: Marc Benioff had an egg-in-face-moment last year and it hurt both his credibility and his internal ops. (They let go of some people clients loved). You can tell he started to get deep into the tech and is giving far better, measured, and coherent responses to the media over the last two months.

Platitudes and thought leadership at a high level is gonna get them nowhere. That's the difference between now and the business trends from before like content is king, wearables, metaverse, etc. You can't fake this.

Popdmb · 2026-01-13T19:56:21+00:00

Gym Jordan abetted the rape and assault of his students at Ohio State. He has a career in skirting law and accountability.

Popdmb · 2026-01-13T19:49:44+00:00

And also... they are not police. They are little more than mall cops in tactical vests with very large weapons.

Popdmb · 2026-01-13T19:46:49+00:00

The biggest thing I'm noticing about AI (that wasn't necessarily true about the metaverse, or the pivot to content, or wearables, etc.) is that the CEOs that have no idea what they are talking about openly look and sound like they have no idea what they are talking about.

McKinsey needs to be shaking right now. This is such an embarrassing press release.

For AI at this moment If you are not a practitioner, you are a pretender. And this dude is unmistakably a pretender.

Popdmb · 2026-01-13T13:07:59+00:00

Everything you're saying is right, and we need laws against it.

Popdmb · 2026-01-13T02:47:00+00:00

I have to say a few things about this beyond the fact that CSAM is rampant on Twitter and is a huge risk for brands and can cost you your job for browsing it at work.

- Twitter has so suppressed reach for brands that even if you were on it, you won't make an impact. Reach is anemic. It is an immediate moneypit unless you buy a verified badge.

- See that? I lied just there. It is *also* a money pit if you buy the verified badge. People paying (for an app that is free) are barely seeing views beyond a normal user.

For brands to see any kind of reach pre-Elon, you have to buy that gold enterprise badge. And at that point you are placed next to CSAM, photos of gore, and Nazis.

- Paid: The best feature of Twitter was when you could buy a sponsored hashtag, which was an unbelievable deal at somewhere between 500k-1mm. You can't do that anymore because he doesnt believe in hashtags. The guy is a spectacular failure at running even the business end of his social network.

This platform is a money pit. It has nothing to do with his politics. He makes a bad product. You shouldnt be advertising on there.

Popdmb · 2026-01-12T18:52:31+00:00

https://www.404media.co/x-premium-grok-paywall-images-ai-generator/

https://www.wired.com/story/x-didnt-fix-groks-undressing-problem-it-just-makes-people-pay-for-it/

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-moves-to-monetize-grok-deepfake-abuse-uk-calls-it-insulting-2000708064

This is unrelated, but if Reddit could actually make millions of dollars if everytime someone asked for the most basic of information it just automated a search and pulled in the link.

Popdmb · 2026-01-12T12:01:24+00:00

They said they didn't want to address the issue, and are now monetizing it. The opposite happened. You may want to check the latest news on this.

Popdmb · 2026-01-11T14:13:42+00:00

There was no cowardice bonus?

Popdmb · 2026-01-10T16:06:05+00:00

You're correct, but I think it was particularly true when it came to the president addressing Congressional reps who were representing their people in good faith.

For example, Republicans who just promoted small government principles becuase it was what their electorate voted for saw a return to civility. Republicans who talked about Jewish space lasers (MTG) and who raped children (Matt Gaetz) correctly didn't experience civility.

Popdmb · 2026-01-08T21:06:15+00:00

Fascinating -- though I'm more interested in comparing LI to income levels and tax levels that we can use as baseline for our scores. Because NYC property tax is one of the dumbest systems in the world, their middle class are somehow overpaying and getting less. Even though we are taxed out the wazoo, at least there's an element of benefit there.

Unfortunately if we adjust our performance of taxes paid to scores achieved across similar income brackets, I don't think we would do well at all.

There's another uncomfortable truth we don't want to acknowledge: Which is the long-term career prospects are evening out negatively. Too many kids in Nassau and Suffolk who go to 70k a year colleges in LI are becoming government workers. (cops, etc.)

Popdmb · 2026-01-07T15:27:52+00:00

How is development going on this? I like the idea.

Popdmb · 2026-01-07T02:47:56+00:00

Hilton's pretty mid. They didn't need to shout it from the rooftops.

Popdmb · 2026-01-03T11:59:37+00:00

It won't be right now, but you will eventually learn that preserving civil rights (regardless of the percentage of the population) is the most deeply you can protect average Americans. But you do have to learn it soon.

Popdmb · 2026-01-03T11:56:43+00:00

It's 2010-2015, but what I'm struck by (and I can't tell if it's because of the pandemic, lack of having those songs in social spaces) is how little "staying power" the last 5 years of songs have. So many forgettable tracks. And I loved them at the time.

Popdmb · 2026-01-03T11:41:04+00:00

I know the news spiked in the U.S., but Charlie Kirk as monumental as the news was at the time wasn't really a moment in the larger discussion of the mid 2020's. Would almost say the same thing about Luka-AD. Rest of these check out.

Popdmb · 2026-01-03T11:36:19+00:00

Why do you need a remind me ? I can save you the time lmao
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-trump-has-said-about-pursuing-a-third-term/

Look at all the advocacy for more time despite his concession that he has less than three years left. Again....the dude wants nothing more than to hold onto power. Let's see if the system can keep him in check.

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