President Trump says he's breaking off all trade negotiations with Canada because someone in Canada ran an ad that accurately quoted Ronald Reagan. See, advertising really does influence people! Trump, Canada, & the Reagan Tariff Ad Examines the Canadian advertisement featuring Ronald Reagan and the immediate political reaction...
What does any tangible handmade good mean when it can be cheaply replicated by machines? Duchamp’s response was in part to say that an object’s value comes from the human connection between giver and receiver.
As we start our small yet mighty community, we're starting to see some cool briefs. Here are a few for today: * PTA's Political Canvas: Power Struggles in "One Battle After Another" // Examines how Paul Thomas Anderson's established themes of ambition, corruption, and...
Everyone is focused on how to make our platforms less addictive. But maybe we should think about how to make them work to better understand ourselves. (Note: Welcome to our newsletter! We promise to have interesting, fresh and new thoughts as we go forward, but I'd like to...
So one of the things that I’ve really loved in working on Rover these past few months is how it inverts that dynamic, and what it means for social interactions.
What does any tangible handmade good mean when it can be cheaply replicated by machines? Duchamp’s response was in part to say that an object’s value comes from the human connection between giver and receiver.
We’re at that stage with AI now. While everyone is complaining about the quality of the product (It’s slop! It’s soulless! It’s completely inaccurate!), I think we miss the deeper issue, which is this: Almost everyone is using AI to do the same thing they did before, just faster/cheaper/easier.
First off, and to avoid any confusion, we are not the pet sitter marketplace. (Yes, I know. I'm disappointed too.) Instead, Rover is an audio-first, AI-driven social content platform. What does that mean?
