Itโs pretty amazing that almost every single โAI generated videoโ that went viral has been revealed to be 1% AI generated content and 99% animation, rotoscoping and VFX work done by a professional team of artists who put in hundreds of hours into the project but receive no credit
Today's newsletter is the story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how an email chain from 2019 began a cascade of events that would lead to him running it into the ground.
Prabhakar Raghavan is a painful example of what happens when you allow the tech industry to be run by managers and management consultants who don't use the things that make them rich. He's responsible for killing search, and I want you to know his name. wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-kiโฆ
This is the story of when I first realized how throughly compromised ANOM, the encrypted chat app the FBI secretly ran, really was. It was the moment I saw a mass of messages and data gathered by the app.
If you have a bunch of trauma and youโd rather channel it into possessions than get therapy for it, my grandmother chose hoarding and my grandpa chose stockpiling and I gotta say, stockpiling is way easier to deal with after you die, so I recommend that one.
UFC fighters failed to unionized, in fact many fighters are scabs who actively fought collective bargaining
The result has led to UFC fighters being by far the lowest paid athletes in term of revenue sharing. While boxers make millions for title fights, UFC fights after payingโฆ