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bag_boy··on A Texan who built an empire of ecstasy
Jam band tours
bag_boy··on What New Orleans Taught Me
Hmmm - not sure why either! Probably just a warped reading style.

Didn’t mean to come off as rude.

bag_boy··on What New Orleans Taught Me
Formatting of the photos and new paragraphs looks off FYI. It’s distracting enough to make the article difficult to read.
bag_boy··on How to get noticed by Garry Tan? I'm a 10 yr old AI founder
Build something that people use and don’t focus on the novelty of your age.

Good luck!

bag_boy··on Help ChatGPT discover your products
My bet:

Eventually Ecommerce brands will pay OpenAI to display more fields/include more product data.

The chat model will probably tell users something like, “here’s all of the products from your search, unbiased as usual!”

BUT some of those products will have tags that encourage clicks and conversions:

- “on sale now!” - “4.8/5 reviews” - “inventory in your size”

Who really loses here? I think this an acceptable advertising model for LLMs.

bag_boy··on Help ChatGPT discover your products
And ecommerce brands will happily pay up if the conversion data is there.
bag_boy··on Help ChatGPT discover your products
There are already 25+ “SEMrush but for AI” tools lol.
bag_boy··on Help ChatGPT discover your products
Disagree. This signals that they want ecommerce brands to eventually spend money in their platform.

Marketers for small ecommerce businesses have been wondering for years how they’re going to upload merchant data to LLMs.

This is their first moment of clarity.

OpenAI is building their own Google Merchant Center.

bag_boy··on George Mason University calls cops on student for article criticizing Trump
The secondary headline adds some valuable context:

GMU student Nicholas Decker’s Substack essay “When Must We Kill Them?” earned him a visit from the Secret Service

bag_boy··on Apple Computers Used to Be Built in the U.S. It Was a Mess (2018)
Artificially prop up the salaries, fed and state investment in training, free training…basically incentives from government entities with deep pockets.

It will happen soon. If you work with state innovation departments in small states, you can see them souring on SAAS. It’s going to swing to manufacturing.

bag_boy··on People say they’ll pay more for “made in the USA” so we ran a test
What kind of stuff made in red states are you boycotting?
bag_boy··on A Reddit bot drove me insane
One thing I have noticed about many of the astroturf accounts is a long gap, like 3-5 years, in posting history.
bag_boy··on A Reddit bot drove me insane
I used to love Reddit, but the astroturfing has become unbearable, especially by political groups.

After this last election, I think political groups realized local subreddits were underutilized and have regrouped accordingly.

While I still trust some appended Reddit searches on Google, I'm losing faith there too. Product/service recommendation threads are really easy to manipulate.

bag_boy··on Rare Beatles Audition Tape Surfaces in a Vancouver Record Shop
What’s the track listing?
bag_boy··on xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B
People who use marketplace
bag_boy··on xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B
Can you cite your sources on Altman not owning Reddit?
bag_boy··on My Home Office Setup
And an Aeron chair?
bag_boy··on ‘Bluey’s World’: How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became a Juggernaut
Absolutely.

Bandit is a fantastic role model and I have learned a lot from this pretend dog dad lol.

My father is deceased. I feel like a lot of the advice he would have given me, I picked up from watching Bluey.

bag_boy··on ‘Bluey’s World’: How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became a Juggernaut
I became a better parent from watching the show.

I take role playing with my daughter more seriously now.

I used to feel a little uncomfortable being really silly (hard after a stressful day).

Now I try to embrace how silly she is and try to play along. It takes A LOT more concentration.

What a wonderful show. Contrast this with Cocomelon, which is basically screen crack for kids.

I hate that my daughter watched one second of Cocomelon!

bag_boy··on Claude can now search the web
But who is creating honest articles about which rice cookers you should buy?

BTW - the search you suggested gives you Reddit links first followed by other trusted sites trying to make an affiliate buck. There’s no spam on the first page.

bag_boy··on Reddit Rated Sell as Redburn Flags Risk from Google Algorithm
I have never spoken to anyone who has had a positive ROI advertising on Reddit.

Advertisers keep going back to Meta and Google because their ads work really well. SMBs can get started on either of those networks really fast and get good results.

How is Reddit going to create a strong base of SMB advertisers? I can’t see it.

bag_boy··on How many artists' careers did the Beatles kill?
The careers they really affected were artists who signed to Apple.

George Harrison tried his best at producing, but he just didn’t have it. Doris Troy’s album under Apple has very little soul.

Too bad John and Paul didn’t care enough to consistently produce other artists.

bag_boy··on Tyler Cowen, the man who wants to know everything
I did not expect him to have such a messy room lol.
bag_boy··on GPT-4.5
I tried it and if it’s more natural, I don’t know what that means anymore, because I’m used to the last 6 month’s models.
bag_boy··on Ask HN: Who Are Your Favorite Photography and Generative Coding Artists?
Generative art - I produced a collaboration with Gee’s Bend, Anna Lucia, and the Artist Rights Society.

It’s called “generations.”

It was a pretty crazy project that took 2+ years to produce.

Anna is really talented. The Gee’s Bend quilters are some of the finest artists in America.

bag_boy··on [dead]
If they're continuously improving the the site, they should work on search and sort functionality.

When you hover over the header row, the default cursor becomes a pointer. It gives the impression the columns can at least be sorted.

bag_boy··on Critics say new Google rules put profits over privacy
What’s your definition of going out of business?

Google search becoming antiquated in 10-15 years?

bag_boy··on Apple Resumes Advertising on X
Out of sight, out of mind.
bag_boy··on Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'
That’s insane lol. Is there a clip of that? Can you provide more context?
bag_boy··on Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]
No - but that does fit the criteria now that I think about it, lol. It's Hardware Park.
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