Most Baby Boomers are as socially conservative as our parents were.The desire for social regression still abides.

Generative AI is going through a human process, for which humans commonly take responsibility. But there’s no way the business model of Google can handle that risk at scale.

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If you want a mass market, you don’t just serve the class market. Don’t just build Cadillacs, build Model Ts that can be upgraded later with better batteries and electronics as they’re perfected. Think IBM PC.

Time is money, it’s more important than money, and if your entertainment isn’t worth our time we’re not buying. It’s the viewer, not the programmer, who now has the power of the remote.

There is peace in Germany right now. But the Germans are worried about us. And the Ukraine War has hit them much harder than it has hit the U.S.

Fixing search engines will be well down the list when Americans finally get on their hind legs and decide to end enshitification, assuming we ever do. But that work has yet to begin. Until it does, enshitification will continue.

You will notice that the oil journal oilprice.com isn’t spooked by the latest Saud move on oil prices and is featuring a lot of stories now about renewables.

While too many people are still forced to fill out too many forms, there are now electronic records on most of us. Hospitals can find out what patients are supposed to be doing and (through test results) whether we’re doing it.

If the cops, the analysts, and the journalists all keep quiet, you can get away with murder in this market.