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.
Pitstops
Musings and outbursts
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.
a very poignant battlecry about the way we interact with (digital) things by @wattenberger.com wattenberger.com/thoughts/our...
And what a gorgeous page with cute little dolls!
Our interfaces have lost their senses
wattenberger.comIt's not vibe-coding; it's declarative english
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.