Ryan Parker

Ryan Parker

@ryanparker.xyz

New year, new social, new memes

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I want to know who asked for the AI to say "mmhmm" while you're talking

Techmeme@techmeme.com

OpenAI rolls out two versions of GPT-Live: GPT-Live-1, powering ChatGPT Voice for Go, Plus, and Pro users, and GPT-Live-1 mini, the default for free users (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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"We need to teach them how to read, so they can read the Bible for themselves and become Protestant." [400 years later] "Ah shit, dammit, look what they've done. They've written 'Ulysses.' Jesus."

The story of his generation. Counter culture borderline hippie in a traditionally conservative family who gets successful in business despite pissing off everyone he works with and them dragging him to the finish line, decides later in life that fascism is good because he’ll pay fewer taxes.

This sucks

Techmeme@techmeme.com

Mozilla says it is building AI Window, a Firefox feature that will include an AI assistant and let users choose the model, but offers few additional details (Elissa Welle/The Verge) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Still thinking about the absolutely insane experience I had finishing Death Stranding 2 last night.

Ryan Parker@ryanparker.xyz

Just finished Death Stranding 1+2 over the past few weeks, if you’re curious what kind of headspace I’m in

MS NOW@ms.now

Former President Barack Obama issued a warning about the future of American democracy, while speaking at an event in Connecticut. Obama cautioned that the country is “dangerously close” to normalizing behavior “consistent with autocracies.”

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beyond the thin veneer of concern behind all of these opeds is the much simpler truth that their authors desperately want to describe something that is very obviously their problem (fewer people want to post in the venues they like more) as though it were our problem

Roy Edroso@edroso.bsky.social

More friendly advice from your mortal enemies.

Look, “town square” social media is more profitable than “living room” social media. I suspect you know this already. People bitch and moan in town squares.

Mark Cuban@mcuban.bsky.social

Why would anyone stop using Twitter if the only topic that is acceptable to you is news and politics ? Think people want to talk about other things ?

Modern billionaires are destroying society and politics because they decided not enough people like them. Mark is complaining that when he posts an unpopular take that people let him know about it.

Mark Cuban@mcuban.bsky.social

The lack of diversity of thought here is really hurting usage. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... Opinion | Bluesky’s decline stems from never hearing from other side - The Washington Post

I try to do inbox zero, but I let my personal inbox go over the weekend and I'm up to 72 e-mails and counting. Whoever decided that persistent e-mail marketing is the gold standard, will not see heaven.

I can’t stress enough how terrible that Captain America Brave New World movie is. I mean, plot is bad for even comic book movies. Editing is awful. Direction, everything is just miserable.

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I can’t stress enough how terrible that Captain America Brave New World movie is. I mean, plot is bad for even comic book movies. Editing is awful. Direction, everything is just miserable.

I am begging a publication to run polling on Sankey and give us the net favorability by demographic

Brett McMurphy@brettmcmurphy.bsky.social

SEC’s Greg Sankey, on if there should be a college football czar, jokes: “A czar didn’t work well for Russia & a drug czar didn’t solve anything in the 80s”