The magic of this mysterious technology is starting to lose its luster. What looked like magic is turning into work.

The current state of personal AI infrastructure. via ondiscourse.substack.com

Corporate profit margins have risen to nearly 20%, which is double the historical 10% levels seen in previous decades. via Eric Basmajian x.com

You don't need to do all three. You might not need to do any of them. But if Reddit matters to your audience—and increasingly, AI is making that decision for you—pick one approach and commit to it properly.

Wild Signal provides AI search optimization services that help brands earn citations in the digital landscape. They pair communications experts with geospatial tools to deliver strategic intelligence. via wildsignal.agency

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Star Trek's unproduced 'Phase II' series from the 1970s included 19 episode scripts that were never filmed via kottke.org

The trouble with these calculations is that they mire us in epistemically tricky terrain. I’m bothered by how quickly the discussions of AI become utopian or apocalyptic. ... It also forces thinking to be obsessively short term. People start losing interest in problems of the next five or ten years, because superintelligence will have already changed everything. The big political and technological questions we need to discuss are only those that matter to the speed of AI development. Furthermore, we must sprint towards a post-superintelligence world even though we have no real idea what it will bring.

Dan Wang's 2025 annual review letter.