Pitstops

Musings and outbursts

It feels like we're reaching some inflection point where the only escape velocity is ✨taste✨.

Money can't buy you taste, but having taste can make you a lot of money.

If you're a Gen-Z on tiktok, you're being berated that (your) sense of style has been algorithmically coerced into a commodity aesthetic.

We're literally watching regression to the mean play out in real time through the push and pull of statistical technologies.

There's something really interesting going on right now:

If you're an AI-aware millennial, you're being hyped that the *doing* is much easier now--the floor of what is possible is being raised.

How is it the year of our lord 2025 and people are still scrolljacking their websites?!

There's something very dystopian/ironic/funky about tech companies doubling down on AI, which is basically a system of knowledge distillation, while simultaneously funding an ignorance-based realpolitik.