Ian Kennedy

"Whether people like that or not"

This administration has a real problem with the truth. It lies constantly, and then also tries to hide anything truthful that damages its narrative or debunks its lies.

Pritzker calls for Trump's removal from office under 25th Amendment Gov. JB Pritzker for the first time is calling for President Donald Trump to be removed from office under the 25th Amendment, after the president said cities like Chicago should be used as “training g...

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/vide...

Thank you for your service and thank you to the CAC for seeing through the glitzy PR campaign, push polls, and bused in “supporters” A casino does not belong next to the United Nations or affordable housing.

Thank you for restoring my faith in (local) democracy!

Leaving NOLA, highlight was the drunken tourist who was stumbling towards me and shouting “Touchdown Jesus!!” I looked at him, confused, then turned around to see this.

That’s him posing in the photo.

oh ok, i guess i misinterpreted the president’s memes and newfound enthusiasm for helicopter emojis.

Oh right! Apologies for getting my notes mixed up. Very informative presentations from all nonetheless. Wish I could have joined you all today!

Rupert Manfredi speaking at Protocols for Publishers

"Epistemological Fractures" a new term learned yesterday from
@ruperts.world at #ProtocolsForPublishers

Robot boxing takes over San Francisco The “world’s first robot combat league” has been drawing sell-outs and online FOMO.

There is something deliciously dystopian about the fact that tech workers are sending robots into cage match fights and betting on the result.

sfstandard.com/2025/08/10/r...

“Nuclear deterrence is nothing more than the power to intimidate.”

Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.

How one man crawled out of a delusional, ChatBot-enabled rabbit hole with the help of another ChatBot.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...

My dear fellow, the scofflaw police are out about to cuff any ruffians sulking about in Gotham.

The building blocks necessary for successful Publisher/AI marketplace. IAB Tech Lab kicked off a task force to collaborate on the design of a marketplace for AI Agents and publishers. This could be the future the online publishing ecosystem.

Some thoughts on how publishers and their CDNs can work together to drive up value and redirect LLM searches to licensed & monetized distribution routes.

WeRide launches Southeast Asia's first fully driverless bus Chinese autonomous vehicle company WeRide launched Southeast Asia's first fully driverless bus service on July 17, operating without safety personnel aboard...

Driverless Buses in Singapore

Park Slope 'Car Condominium' Sells For $250K Amid City Housing Crisis - Streetsblog New York City A parking spot in Park Slope just sold for $250,000.

How expensive is housing in NYC? So expensive that parking lots are going for six figures.

nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/07/14/p...

Freedom Plaza Updates At 1pm today, there is a kick-off meeting (page has a YouTube link to view remotely) to discuss the mandated public information sessions and other aspects of the Community Advisory Committee (CAC). The six member of the CAC will ultimately recommend the project to the New York Gaming Facility Location Board and help determine which three (out of eight) applicants ultimately receive a casino license. If you have any interest in this project, I would encourage you to learn more by viewing the livestream. Work will keep me from watching but I would love to hear what you think.

Freedom Plaza Updates

At 1pm today, there is a kick-off meeting (page has a YouTube link to view remotely) to discuss the mandated public information sessions and other aspects of the Community Advisory Committee (CAC). The six member of the CAC will ultimately recommend the project to the New…

Luxury Top Real-Time Translation Translator Earbuds & Earphones The Timekettle WT2 edge also called the W3 Real-TimeTranslator Earbuds device supports bilingual conversation translation for up to 6 people. With 95% accuracy in 40 languages and 93 accents, it's the...

Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide’s to the Galaxy imaged the Babel fish, an actual fish that you would slip into your ear and it would translate for you. We now have that device www.timekettle.co/products/may...

Just watched, American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden

“Your prompt is showing”

Abbottabad, Pakistan

Introducing Pay per crawl- enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content.

More details on Pay-Per-Crawl and a sketch of the marketplace they are putting in place explained on CloudFlare’s blog blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-...

"The Studio" The Oner (TV Episode 2025) ⭐ 9.0 | Comedy, Drama 25m | TV-MA

Thoroughly enjoyed the second episode of Apple TV’s The Studio about a single cut scene, shot in a single cut. m.imdb.com/title/tt3490...

Cloudflare’s new mission Cloudflare sees about 20% of the world's internet traffic cross its network. Matthew Prince, CloudFlare's CEO, has a pretty good handle on trending internet behavior. In the video below, he summarizes the impact of AI "answer engines" that summarize what they find in response to questions put into AI chatbots such as Google's AI Overview or Open AI's Chat GPT. What he concludes is that the exchange that allowed the search engines to index a site in return for referred pageviews is no longer equitable and is growing increasingly lopsided. …

What if we rebuilt the internet into one that rewarded Knowledge and not Attention. The "attention economy" brought us clickbait and distraction. What if we rebuilt the internet into one that rewarded publishers that gave more than they took away?

Perplexity’s YouTube Moment Perplexity acquisition rumors echo when Google was about to acquire YouTube. Risky at the time but a game-changer in hindsight.

Perplexity’s YouTube Moment

Perplexity acquisition rumors echo when Google was about to acquire YouTube. Risky at the time but a game-changer in hindsight.

Maybe the RIAA will have more spine than the Supreme Court.

Using AI to role play with your salespeople (can i use this to answer my spam calls?) www.sellible.ai #foundersedge

Index your video so you can search objects by text and splice together a supercut of highlights get.camcorder.ai #foundersedge

The SEO tools are all moving to help you rank on the Answer Engines. www.openforge.ai

A casino next to Tudor City? What do the candidates say? The largest open lot in Manhattan is in my neighborhood and developers want to build a casino there. I ask candidates for city council what they think.

A casino next to Tudor City? What do the candidates say?

The largest open lot in Manhattan is in my neighborhood and developers want to build a casino there. I ask candidates for city council what they think.

What I Learned at #nytechweek Last week NYC erupted with over 1,000 small pop-up events across the city, loosely curated by the NY Tech Week team on this calendar. I would describe this as a decentralized SXSW where the events are hosted without much central control which results in an explosion of activity and an opportunity for participants to expose themselves to a wide range of ideas while visiting workspaces all across the city. The events begin to come together in the months leading up to the annual event. Most of them are invite-only so you need to sign up in advance.

What I Learned at #nytechweek

Last week NYC erupted with over 1,000 small pop-up events across the city, loosely curated by the NY Tech Week team on this calendar. I would describe this as a decentralized SXSW where the events are hosted without much central control which results in an explosion…