Watched this great "video essay" over the weekend on the death of the internet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gNLViWfCA0

It traces the history of the early social platform companies, why they rose and fell, and makes some predictions about the immediate future of the bot internet.

He also cites this video by Maggie Appleton on designing AI products for human flourishing, which was also very good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXkDaDDJjoA

Blog post version:

https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest

This sent me on a bender of watching conference talks. Causal Islands (where Maggie gave her talk) wasn't that great, but it caused me to remember Strange Loop, which remains an amazing conference.

I listened to three Strange Loop talks on Saturday (while raking the thatch out of my lawn), on birdsong as music, programming by voice with Cursorless, and a history of Go, all of which were great.