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When explaining AI to non tech friends I have realized that:

ChatGPT has become a generic

Like KLEENEX for Tissues

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Stop hiring humans - the era of ai employees is here - sheesh

I C a n ‘ t E v e n 🤦🏻‍♀️

A meta-analysis of technology use and cognitive aging - Nature Human Behaviour The first generation who engaged with digital technologies has reached the age where risks of dementia emerge, and the question emerges how digital technologies have affected cognitive capabilities. T...

Attn GenX - finally a study that shows we have good timing in one area. We may have been born in the sweet spot for reducing dementia as we age.

We say a really active brain in youth and midlife is a brain that is more resilient later,”

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Afraid to read - cuz , ya know - I’m a slacker 😜

Actually where you are on GenX timeline makes huge diff - imho

Nostalgia overload watching #breakingthebird.

Often omitted from early social web stories is how folks were driven by content/art/society etc. Hlad it’s included in arc of this story.

Popped up in an old feed. SXSW 2015. Wow
Great times. Great peeps. With one bittersweet RIP.

Thx for the intro Jason

Laura - I need to listen to those church bells on repeat - this Jewish girl finds em magical and “transportive”

I know ya feel me - I am extremely frustrated by our diffuse online channels these days - cognitive overload has reached max on who to reach where.

@kevinmarks.com

👋 💕 sometimes one just wants to wave across the pond

I’m the baby with parents who unusually got married in their early 30’s back then.

So true- tho my folks a generation removed - so more like the 50’s for them 😜

No no no - that was - gulp ‘95 🤦🏻‍♀️ - GenX geek touchpoints all.

Cyberspace Movies in 1995: Silicon Valley Meets Hollywood Three Hollywood movies were released in 1995 with internet themes: the Keanu Reeves cyberpunk film Johnny Mnemonic (with an accompanying website), The Net with Sandra Bullock, and Hackers.

Three Hollywood movies were released in 1995 with internet themes: Johnny Mnemonic, The Net, and Hackers. In this post I also look back at William Gibson's now extinct mid-90s website & the equally lost to time Johnny Mnemonic net.hunt. cybercultural.com/p/cyberspace... #InternetHistory #90smovies

Happy to see @rabble.nz and @chrismessina.me represented - good sign that this doc will cover the good stuff

Made me smile cuz -- this is also the Hebrew month of Adar- so I did a double take!

And ::wave::

So you’re telling me romance *is* dead 😳

Grift is his raison d’etre

And to confirm your point offhand comment this AM

“We need someone like Elon and his algorithms and expertise to fix government”

- Speaker Mike Johnson on ABC this AM

OMG. This offhand comment.

“We need someone like Elon and his algorithms and expertise to fix government”

- Speaker Mike Johnson on ABC this AM

You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to

@kevinmarks.com @clivethompson.bsky.social

Federal govt daily standup-courtesy of Musk- huge crowd of people

My reaction to the Musk memo. Federal gov’t just ain’t a tech startup 🤦🏻‍♀️

So true - ha

Good for them - ha- will send separately- was a recent interview Kara did

Cc @heathr.bsky.social

Sadly, yeah- tho would be quite the emotionally aware and creative scammer - rare, no?

Yes! Our drive for efficiency and scale and productivity is sapping the soup from our lives. Reminds me of many Tummelvision.tv episodes. @kevinmarks.com

www.instagram.com/reel/DFa5ZnL...

Aww - love those events - miss em - 👋 from the other coast

I’m revisiting and ruminating on Granovetter’s “strength of weak ties” in 2025 — how is it holding up? A few questions to start:

-Do we naturally crave stronger ties as we age, or has tech/social media changed driven change?

-Are weak ties holding up in our current zeitgeist?