Blaire O'Neal

Why is LinkedIn so awful? I can barely stand to be there for more than 10 minutes.

Thank you for this post.

I've been thinking about this, too. It seems like DT is never held accountable for one unforgiving thing because by the time the news breaks on said thing, he's already done another 20 unforgivable things.

+1

Citing DoorDash to prove the American economy is doing well is like using ER waiting-room traffic to prove everyone’s healthy.

George Orwell: "Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”

Here's hoping I can scrape together some PTO.

Election night was great for democrats and fans of the words “rebuke” and “repudiation”

i'm not writing this for you | the age of AI curation. I’m new to Bluesky, but apparently, in some of its circles, I am what they would call an X-refugee. The moniker feels slightly pejorative given we’re talking about a social media platform (not a war-t...

penned my thoughts on AI curation, Grok's new role, and so-called 'X refugees'. dr-b.ghost.io/im-not-writi...

what makes this feel inevitable: tech follows incentive structures. attention is scarce, automation scales.

what makes it feel weird:
human expression is now mediated by non-human intelligence.

my question is: what kind of content survives? and what gets lost when AI becomes the gatekeeper?

this evolution becomes awkward for someone like me who uses social media to critique tech culture.

if I were still seeking an audience on X, I would have to make THIS THREAD criticizing the fact that I have to appeal to an AI APPEALING to an AI.

now we're in the AI curation phase. on X, that means Grok, an AI reading 100M+ posts daily, decides what's 'interesting'.

you're optimizing for an AI's interpretation of what humans want.

then the algorithms show up and now we're all optimizing.

digital media strategy is king. you're considering the best times to post. hashtag strategies. immediate hooks.

you're not creating for people anymore. you're creating for the machine that shows your content to people.

in early social media, you posted what YOU wanted to say, hoping the right people would find it.

authenticity was the currency; your audience was the judge.

we've gone from: creating for audiences --> to creating for algorithms --> and now, to creating for AI.

this progression feels both inevitable and deeply weird.

🧵 here are my thoughts

the thing is, these works build the model, informing every single response it generates. $3,000 payment doesn't reflect that ongoing value.

it's like paying a session musician $100 once, then selling millions of albums that include their contribution forever. what about mandatory licensing?

petition to replace doom-scrolling with "taking a scroll"

I'm imagining Jeff Bezos walking around a creepy lair, orating this article with delight to a Post writer as the flames from the nearby fireplace reflect in his eyes.

moving day. I’m beginning this endeavor with a brief, warm introduction to no one, in hopes of, someday, someone.  Ghost only showed up on my radar yesterday, precipitated by an impassioned—and clearly convincin...

leaving Substack before ever creating a post is barely a revolutionary act.

it feels like half-heartedly saying 'fuck off' to an empty room you never moved into.

nonetheless, hello, @ghost.org

hello, open source. hello, owning my work.

more thoughts here: dr-b.ghost.io/moving-day/