New web game that takes 2 min to play (and perhaps a lifetime to master?): Outsmart. “Five rounds, first to 3 wins. In each round, the higher bet wins. You have 100 total points, so bet wisely. Can you outsmart the machine?” [labs.davidbauer.ch]
Danke für den Hinweis. Kommt auf die Leseliste.
See what matters most: AI Inbox Your inbox is filled with updates; some are critical, others are just noise. The new AI Inbox filters out the clutter so you can focus on what’s most important. AI Inbox is like having a personalized briefing, highlighting to-dos and catching you up on what matters. It helps you prioritize, identifying your VIPs based on signals like people you email frequently, those in your contacts list and relationships it can infer from message content. Crucially, this analysis happens securely with the privacy protections you expect from Google, keeping your data under your control. This lets high-stakes items — like a bill due tomorrow or a dentist reminder — rise to the top. We’re giving trusted testers access to AI Inbox before making it more broadly available in the coming months.
Gmail is introducing a new AI Inbox, basically a personalised briefing based on your emails.
So much for email as the last channel where algorithms don’t get between you and your audience.
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🏆 Epic Out of This World Video of The Year: @epicspaceman.bsky.social
I made up some awards, because someone had to.
🏆 Most Morbidly Useful Listicle of The Year
🏆 Enshittification of The Year
🏆 Gut Punching Pause of The Year
🏆 Uncomfortably Honest Field Guide to The Deeply Bizarre Now-Now-Soon of The Year
🏆 and 9 more…
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A little update to my ever growing list of ways in which I use AI for work, life and play. I now have a COO for my one man newsletter business. What could possibly go wrong?
If you find any of these use cases and prompts helpful, feel free to use and adapt them.
Full list 👇
Seconded. I made the move from Substack to Ghost a few years ago and never looked back. It's just better to have a platform whose incentives are aligned with yours as a newsletter writer.
La bonne reco du mois : DataGuessr
Notre data designer Clément vous recommande ce jeu addictif conçu par @davidbauer.ch : chaque jour, classez 7 pays selon un indicateur 📊
Le principe : quel pays a le plus haut taux d'enfants vaccinés ? En Birmanie, c'est 71%.
Et au Bénin, c'est plus ou moins ? 🤔
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Everything is A LOT lately. It's all so uncertain. And the way I try to make sense of things is with data. So, that's what Not-Ship is all about. Come chart the chaos with me.
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I mean we all knew China is building out solar and wind energy on a massive scale. But this 🤯
«The 22m tonnes of steel used to build new wind turbines and solar panels in 2024 would have been enough to build a Golden Gate Bridge on every working day of every week that year.»
Data for all these quizzes is sourced from @ourworldindata.org. 🙏
Dataguessr Update your knowledge of the world. One quiz at a time. With an arrow, the word "warming" is added before "world". The word Dataguessr uses the warming stripes that illustrate warming global temperatures over time as background. At the bottom, a button saying "Start now"
🤝 Which countries have increased or reduced their emissions the most since the Paris Agreement in 2015? dataguessr.com/topic/emissi...
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«The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.»
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Stylised screenshot of davidbauer.ch website showcasing eight digital tools in a grid layout. Featured projects include: Dataguessr, a playful way to update your knowledge of the world. How I Use AI, a collection of use cases, ready to use and adapt. You Don't Know Africa, a simple game that has already humbled millions of people. Choose Impact, an online tool to compare job opportunities. Priority Compass, a tool to focus your energy on what really matters. Climate Questions, a playful conversation starter. And One Minute Challenge, a little meaningful distraction to refocus. Each tool is displayed as a card with preview images and brief descriptions.
Gave my website a little glow up to bundle all the web apps I've created over the years that people might still find useful.
Have a look: davidbauer.ch
To quote my friend @drkatemarvel.bsky.social, climate change won't make humanity extinct but we can do better than "not extinct". Raise your standards people!
How long until Substack introduces an all-you-can-read subscription?
Where will most people live in 2100?
My Dataguessr score:
✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
Can you match that?
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Where do the most people die from air pollution caused by fossil fuels?
My Dataguessr score:
✅✅✅✅🟥🟥🟥
Can you do better?
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Favourite extremely nerdy feature in @ghost.org.
Viel wird zur Zeit gestritten über die Frage, ob und wie wir sprachlich verschiedene Geschlechtsidentitäten adressieren sollen. Mir scheint es schlicht eine altmodische Geste der Höflichkeit, Menschen so anzusprechen, wie sie angesprochen werden möchten. Das verlangt mitunter, von bislang üblichen Sprech- und Schreibweisen abzuweichen. Das ist nicht immer leicht. Ich probiere es vorläufig mit einem Doppelpunkt und will neben männlichen und weiblichen Personen auch nicht-binäre mit ansprechen. Ich vermute, wir werden verschiedene schriftliche und mündliche Formen ausprobieren - manche als verletzend, manche als unpraktisch wieder verwerfen. Und uns nach und nach auf etwas verständigen, das den Test des Alltags besteht. Bis dahin werden wir stottern oder holpern - aber das tue ich sonst im Leben auch. Der letzte Satz ist gelb hervorgehoben.
Lese gerade das neue Buch von @emcke.bsky.social und liebe diesen pragmatisch-poetischen Hinweis, wie das manchmal Holprige und Ungewohnte an inklusiver Sprache wirklich gut auszuhalten ist.
Bar chart with the title «Solar and wind sloooooowly push out fossil energy» comparing electricity generation changes from H1 2024 to H1 2025 across five regions. Worldwide: demand rose 369 TWh, solar and wind grew 403 TWh, while hydro fell 42 TWh and fossil fuels dropped 27 TWh. China: demand up 198 TWh, solar and wind up 247 TWh, fossil fuels down 58 TWh. United States: demand up 76 TWh, solar and wind up 49 TWh, fossil fuels up 18 TWh. European Union: demand up 9 TWh, solar and wind up 16 TWh, hydro down 33 TWh, fossil fuels up 25 TWh. India: demand up 12 TWh, solar and wind up 28 TWh, fossil fuels down 29 TWh. Source: EMBER Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025.
⚡️For the first time, solar and wind covered all electricity demand growth, sloooooooowly reducing fossil fuel dependency.
My chart, data from the newly released @ember-energy.org Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025 (ember-energy.org/latest-insig...).
