If quality info producers can’t fund producing high quality info it won’t matter how many agents you deploy

One thing that is under-discussed about becoming an AI native worker is the importance of writing evals.

If your job now depends on getting good answers from an AI agent, you need to be good at validating your agent has enough context to regularly give correct answers.

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Businesses don’t exist without customers. Product Management is an empathy role (empathy for customer AND business needs)

Then this is just a chicken and egg situation. If no large reliable organizations had hosted email servers nobody would have used email either.

Not sure I understand. This is exactly the same as Mastodon. You can use an existing sever in which case your account is tied to their sever, or you can set up and host your own.

Why did they do it for email?

But that has nothing to do with the protocol. Google could start a server tomorrow if they wanted

To be fair, the same is true of email

The social web beta is here You can now try out ActivityPub on Ghost(Pro)

The Ghost ActivityPub Public Beta is here!

(Well, for ghost(pro) users…)

I forgot how good it was

Print copy of the Toronto Star Newspaper being held in a living room

I just re-subscribed to a print newspaper for the first time in years and I cannot fully express how pleasurable it is to sit down with my coffee and read the newspaper. 10/10 no notes would recommend.

When I left Twitter I had a 1M followers and 100K tweets. You know what happen to me when it was all gone? Nothing.

To the Twitter refugees who I see fretting about losing contacts and content by deleting Twitter, trust, you'll be fine. They have convinced us that we need them. Nope. They need US.

App idea. Search for what you want on Amazon, then this app shows you a small mom and pop store near you that has the same thing.

strong early pandemic vibes at the Costco today

This city took fluoride out of the water. Now it’s putting it back in Calgary, which has endured ten years of worsening dental health and is reversing its decision, is a cautionary tale for Robert F Kennedy Jr

Calgary is reversing its decision to remove fluoride from its water supply after experiencing a significant increase in dental decay and cavity treatments among children since the removal in 2011.

www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda... via @snowhydro.bsky.social‬

If Canada’s response to Trump’s tariffs is described as “measured” or “reasonable” our government has failed us.

This is a “don’t blink” moment… our natural resources are one place where we have outsized strength - this is the moment we need to punch the bully as hard as possible & not back down.

I would say 911 dispatchers provide a valuable service but it would be ok to criticize them if you called them and instead of sending an ambulance they said "Someone should do something about this!" and hung up

Welcome, teens coming here from tiktok. I think you’ll find that through the magic of the written word I am able to craft sentences that are as vivid and compelling as any short-form video!

Photo of a small crab from NOAA’s social media. It’s covered in spikes

Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found

What happened during a wrong-way police pursuit on Highway 401? Video, audio tell the story of the dramatic moments before fatal crash The Star compiled video, emergency dispatch audio, photos and internal reports to piece together what happened ahead of crash that killed four.

This is so well done. Offers visceral experience of what happened and sense of why two police officers have been charged

www.thestar.com/interactives...

You can’t tell a story with bullet points.

what a beautiful natural experiment

So here's what's cool about my job:

Yesterday morning I said, "We really ought to have TWIN PEAKS available." So then a bunch of people scrambled, worked really hard, and now you can watch every episode of David Lynch & Mark Frost's original series for free on Pluto TV: pluto.tv/us/on-demand...

The whole point of naming laws after victims is to stampede over the unpopular fact that the Bill of Rights revolves around protecting the rights of the accused

John Frankensteiner @JFrankensteiner Time to bring back one of my favorite anecdotes ever: Charles Bukowski gets cable, first thing he sees is Eraserhead, he assumes all things on cable will be that wonderful, never enjoys another program again (Screenshot) BUKOWSKI: We got cable TV here, and the first thing we switched on happened to be Eraserhead. I said, "What's this?" I didn't know what it was. It was so great. I said, "Oh, this cable TV has opened up a whole new world. We're gonna be sitting in front of this thing for centuries. What next?" So starting with Eraserhead we sit here, click, click, click-nothing.

Exclusive: Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes More good news for those looking to exit Meta's social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent developer is building a

Let's Gooo!
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Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...