AI is sold to us as "God-in-a-box" but if you keep unpacking the box, going deeper and deeper, you begin to see it's empty, and come to realize you were/are/will always be the only thing filling it up.

AI is fueled by self-doubt, indecisiveness, and fear of the unknown, and sold as the antidote to endless/aimless inquiry, but it's really a shell game leading to increasingly interminable inquiry, expansive fear, and incalculable self-doubt.

Gun Lobbyists and Cambridge Analytica Weaponized Gun Owners’ Private Details for Political Gain Documents and interviews reveal how the now-disgraced political firm targeted potential voters by combining its cache of confidential consumer data with information secretly collected from millions of...

NEW: Documents and interviews reveal how the now-disgraced political firm Cambridge Analytica targeted potential voters by combining its cache of confidential consumer data with information secretly collected from millions of gun buyers, sporting goods shoppers and others.

You can fully grab the bag, and 100% miss your shot

The objective-minded won't like this, but it's REALITY 🤷‍♂️

The truth is - everyone thinks THEY are Luke Skywalker, and anyone who isn't, is the Dark Side. Main Character Bias slaps hardest in the home.

The real challenge isn’t understanding every nuance of an audience—it’s having the curiosity and courage to understand ourselves.

it's so fucked!

The lucrative imagination of the criminal-mind is far more extensive, and far more lucrative, than the imagination of the business-mind, and grifters 1,000% count on this gap and use it against us.

oh hell yes! Great breakdown brother - would be great with that new BBQ sauce you got....🤤

The one about DeepSeek A special edition

For those who missed it - there will be no Strategy in Praxis today; it came out on Wednesday. And, well, here it is:

just created a replica of DeepSeek using only these items; what's your excuse!?

I need to know who at my company believes in the Rapture. Not because of anything religious, but because if they think they are going to be magicked into heaven AT ANY MOMENT, they are probably dragging their heels on a bunch of work, because, you never know. Am I wrong here? 🤔

And they just shut registration because of a cyber attack 🤷‍♂️

Melrose Place-holder

You like reading founder stories from really big brands!?!

That's how you're gonna succeed, right?

Well......might I suggest looking at the MOUNTAIN of information from the failures, instead of thinking you can ape the tight set of circumstances that made Amazon big. 🤷‍♂️

ooooh - hell yeah! Grabbing that right now

Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power How global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control

Given what is happening with X, it's a good time to propose for anyone interested to read the "Algorithms of Resistance" by T. Bonini & E. Trere. It offers ways to challenge the logic of the platform, and there is a lot of research backing up the arguments of the book. It's open access too!

Karl knows!

If there's anything I could've done to help, please let me know later. Thanks in advance!

FYI

Until we see a truly gripping, Michael Bay/Spielberg-esque blockbuster type edge-of-your-seat data story, I’m gonna assume the best “data stories” are just well explained dashboards…🧐

thinking about him again....