Yury Molodtsov (@yury.molodtsov.me)

Yury Molodtsov

@yury.molodtsov.me

PR & Comms COO & Partner @ ma.family Blogging at https://molodtsov.me Based in Lisbon

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There's a way to tie @AcquiredFM last episode to AI My wife loves soups, so need to cook some

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A touchscreen MacBook will enable thousands of vibe coders to finally touch their girlfriend

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You think you're underestimated? What if you were correctly estimated the whole time?

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Don't buy iPhone Duo. It's the worst folding iPhone.

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The hottest new trend in startup PR is employee-run comms. Token-starved vibecoders don't follow OpenAI, they follow Tibo (or Thariq, until last week), waiting for a limits reset. Corgi, and before them, Warp paid "employees" to post on X. https://molodtsov.me/2026/10/let-the-builders-talk/

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Everyone wants to copy it. Few understand why it works. And most copy the wrong part. Here's why it works and how you can do it:

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Google approved Calendar API access for my Acropolis extension! Meet the best new tab for Chrome. Time, weather, calendar, integrations with @readwise, @matter, @instapaper and @brian_lovin 's Shiori, your shortcuts and bookmarks. Search with Google (+AI Mode), ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Grok.

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Custom themes, wallpapers and dark mode. What else should I add? Guys, I know there's Antropic's S-1 to read, but I'd expect more reactions

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Finally replaced my new tab in Chrome with something better

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I think Dark Matter Season 2 is probably the best piece of art on the dangers of technology right now. A lot of people watched the first season, but I’ve barely seen anyone discussing the second one. It no longer follows the book, although Blake Crouch helped write S2.

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It becomes an infinite story of unintended consequences since Leighton can’t possibly judge all those side effects, yet time and time again he pushes the technology forward. I wish more technology criticism was this smart. If you haven’t watched it, I highly recommend it.

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It’s hard to follow at times. Every main character who went into the box has infinite copies, and they all look the same. Thank you Apple TV.

Jason Dessen and his family are just trying to fix their lives and find a place to live. Leighton is rebuilding Velocity Labs across worlds. Despite everything that happened, despite entire worlds destroyed because of the box, he still wants to push forward. And he has bright ideas.

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He uses the box to deliver vaccines and move technologies from one world to another. But the people using it also carry diseases into other worlds.

Most movies, TV series, and even books don’t. From Silo to The Social Network Part II, they give us basic, one-dimensional characters, rewrite history, and serve up cartoonish evil billionaires and tech oligarchs you’re meant to laugh at. Dark Matter does it right.

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The first season was centered on the box, a technology that lets you travel to other versions of your reality. In season two, everything unravels around it as copies of people who passed through try to figure out what they want.

And it’s a much better way to criticize technology. I’m a techno-optimist. But it’s the nature of art to discuss these things and raise questions. Unfortunately, most of the art I’ve seen on the topic is just lazy. You have to earn the right to criticize.

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This is the level of most "experts" on TV. Why? Because the assistant producer ends up frantically messaging anyone they know 3 hours before the recording to find at least someone credentialed enough that they wouldn't be ashamed to put on the screen.

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One or the best articles I read this year https://www.economicforces.xyz/p/prices-are-signals-and-politicians

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DST is the worst form of optimal light distribution, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Glad I built the DST notification feature in my converter https://time.molodtsov.me

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Jev is such a great tool that makes it easy to solve age-old computer problems. It now runs a whole bunch of activities in Horus and it still costs <$2 per month. For example: catching your company's and competitors' media coverage. A substring search alone isn't enough.

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Especially if the brand name is just a common noun. So we have Jev look at the title and text to decide if it's actually a story about the company or something else. And it works perfectly.

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Today is a PHP appreciation day where we learn how many websites and products are still run on PHP Because they have to be urgently updated or disabled to fix two critical vulnerabilities found by OpenAI https://php-web-museum.vercel.app

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PHP was the main programming language of the internet Here's my museum of the most common tools, platforms and forum engines of the 2000s

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Started the day with 5 tasks Did 4 of them Now I have 9 tasks

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Can't understand why Netflix reported the slowest revenue growth in history They have no hits other than Stranger Things, their median quality is mid and they keep raising prices Such a mystery

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Remember when "recognizing the image of a bird" was a complex problem in CS?

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Carta's doing some dirty SEO tricks

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The fact that you can do something doesn't necessarily mean that you should. Sometimes people defend it with "others will build this anyway". There are many AI detectors online. Pangram is the best one. So their humanizers are also quite bad.

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We're so early with AI, especially on desktop machines and phones. Needed to apply for a UK visa and they want your travel history for many years prior. Recalled that I saved the filled in doc from the last time. Can't remember how or where. So I just asked Claude to find it.

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It figured possible dates, formats (HTML or PDF) and went looking, checking each possible file. Now imagine the same functionality built into your OS. That's how it should work, obviously.

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I guess they published this for billionaires

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Never liked Chrome's new tab that hasn't been properly updated in agents, so finally decided to replace is with something better.

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I implore @lulumeservey to get a Roadster with a "Rostra" plate, just look at this

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TIL Americans take a 500mg ibuprofen after workouts for "prophylactics" Btw, If you're still unsure about the difference between ibuprofen and paracetamol, here's a great up-to-date guide https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/the-mystery-in-the-medicine-cabinet

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one thing many people unfortunately don't get about their career how nice it is to work with you and be around you is just as important as your skills and professionalism

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AppleTV for $300 is a bit crazy becuase you can literally get a 55' TV for that money But the software will be shit

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Really liking my home screen right now. Especially since two apps here are my own.

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Imagine if AI creates a drug whose mechanism we don't get, oh no, would we even use it The medical community:

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Super intelligence is raw milk. Let me explain. In the current memetic battlefront, it's absolutely irrelevant what you actually believe. It's all about signaling.

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Once a meme emerges, you get a higher status within a left/right group by committing to the bit regardless of reason or your own belief. The crazier, the better. This explains everything from the certain right-wing salutes certain people did in 2024 to how we call AI.

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What matters is that you follow the bit to the extreme. It's a friend-or-foe system.

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I'm still missing the old visuals of 2000s websites and forums like PHP Nuke or phpbb2. AI is great for digital preservation, so I started this PHP Web Museum. https://php-web-museum.vercel.app

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All the engines (except proprietary ones) are built in a VM from the original code and filled with synthetic data. A PHP CMS was one of the first big things I ever coded and it worked well enough for myself and a few friends. https://php-web-museum.vercel.app/forums/ipb/index.html

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The good old days! Invision Power Board was for cool rich guys (or the people who stole the code).

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I believe Machine Intelligence would have been a far better term than either AI or Super Intelligence MI

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Turns out Scandinavian cuisine is "we cook other people's food better than they do" It's awesome!

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What's weird about Norway is everyone here speaks English but outside of touristy areas most people try to speak Norwegian to me

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Being an adult is cool but why cutlery is so expensive? This one is €45 euro for a 1-person set. And I want it.

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When you suggested one place during a 2-week trip completely planned by your wife