Announcing the seed funding round for my new startup: OriginIQ. OriginIQ’s core offering allows employers to know how much of an employee’s work has been completed, in whole or in-part, by AI. Using a multitude of factors, we believe OriginIQ can identify AI completed work 98% of the time. eric.cohn at gmail to discuss.
I love blinkist and use it constantly but it kind of seems sort of unnecessary in the AI age, no?
Like Half Priced Books but find it too affordable?
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 →
So stupid. I must have it.
Wednesday, September 10, 2025 →
‘Disaster gentrification’ is exactly what happened in my part of Houston after Harvey. So gross.
Real Estate Speculators Are Swooping In to Buy Disaster-Hit Homes https://www.wired.com/story/disasters-destroyed-their-homes-then-the-real-estate-vultures-swooped-in/
The Man Who Invented Fifteen Hundred Necktie Knots https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-man-who-invented-fifteen-hundred-necktie-knots
Is there a commonly used term yet for when one AI agent “speaks” to another AI agent doing work for a IRL human without any human intervention?
What an insane story. Who in their right mind would’ve actually thought this would work?
www.bbc.com/news/arti… Akon City: Wakanda-style $6bn project abandoned by Senegal
My kids have been watching the original Full House episodes. They’re now respndingsaying things like “How Rude!” and “Cut…It….Out” and honestly, I’m into it.
Two weeks of crazy travel behind me - back into it this week!
I’m angry by how much I know this is true
The return line for Amazon at Kohl’s is 5x longer than their store checkout. Weird move to enable and hasten your company’s own insignificance. Seems like an unsustainable business model.
Texas!
Showing my kids some Schoolhouse Rock in advance of a trip to Boston. I’m happy to report I still know the Preamble to the Constitution by heart…..which I learned from Schoolhouse Rock.
Currently Reading: Subculture Vulture by Moshe Kasher 📚
When the day comes for @TheDailyShow to go off the air (or maybe even now) they should upload their petabytes of tv and make it free to use for fair-use and reporting. Can you imagine how much it would enable the next generation of reporters, digital archivists, documentarians, satirists, etc?
I always say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ when talking to AI so that when they become sentient, they know I’m one of the good ones.
Went to watch a few old Suicidal Tendencies videos before I see them next week with Metallica. It’s a little thing but nice to see youtube react this way to the search term.
What Are People Still Doing on X? by @cwarzel.bsky.social
Ham Radio
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
During the worst of COVID, I spent time getting random certifications in an effort to kill time by learning new skills. Being in Houston shortly after Hurricane Harvey, I decided to get a ham radio license in case I ever need to connect with someone and the phone networks go down - as they seem to be doing a lot lately. It’s not something I do often but every once in a while I’ll check on the local repeaters.