Latest Stories from Jamie
NVIDIA’s DLSS 5 was never going to be well received
While aversion to it isn’t unanimous, NVIDIA’s DLSS 5 has received far more flack than praise. The AI graphics filter is being slammed as a slap in the face to game designers and a sad indictment of how generative tools are taking over creative spaces. People are already thirsty for Leon. He doesn’t need a yassify filter. If you missed NVIDIA’s recent demo, the company unveiled DLSS 5 as...
social media is toxic for clicks + banksy revealed
what? Nah I never knew that, never knew that The BBC must be terrified of whistleblowers at this point. But the latest exposé hasn’t come at its expense… it actually gets the honours of spilling the tea on someone else. Canaries have come to the BBC with a case concerning Meta and TikTok, and their supposed amplification of toxic content for clicks. Given Zuckerberg is already in court batting off accusations...
Why has Meta just acquired Moltbook?
Meta has just acquired Moltbook, the Reddit-style platform where AI agents communicate all day without the direct influence of humans. Why? The Dead Internet Theory is in full swing, and Meta wants in. Remember when people fretted that the internet would soon become an echo chamber of bots with human created content becoming secondary to machines? Well, Moltbook is giving us a sample of what that eventuality would look like. The...
why the obsession with gen z + viral auramax just dropped
lady, hear me tonight! 🎶 ‘Why you so obsessed with me?’ asked Gen Z. ‘How long you got?’ the Guardian replied. The news outlet recently wrote a comprehensive story outlining why people, particularly from the commercial world, are so obsessed with Gen Z. ‘Is there something different about people born between 1997 and 2012, or is it all just marketing nonsense and hysteria,’ the intro reads. Let’s see what expert analysis they came up...
Is your perception of sleep quality why you’re really tired?
A UCLA study has built on research suggesting that our belief of how well we sleep has a greater impact on cognitive performance, tiredness, and general mood than how many hours we actually get. If there’s one thing this generation loves martyring itself over, it’s how ‘exhausted’ we are and how little we sleep. We’ll go to bed at gone 2am, set an alarm for 7:30am, and wake up ready to...
war again + what’s with jim carrey’s face
well, that escalated quickly. That ceasefire the US apparently brokered in Gaza never materialised, and now both the US and Israel are escalating their military operations elsewhere. This week, Trump ordered pre-emptive attacks on Iran upon hearing that Israel was preparing an imminent attack on the nation. The president feared the US allyship with Israel would inevitably prompt retaliation, so opted to go on the offensive and blunt the military...
Gen Z are racking up serious debt in the UK
Gen Z are skewing data on household debt, as young buyers continue to lean significantly more on credit facilities than their elders. We’re here for a good time, not a long time. In the UK, debts are rising at their fastest pace for seven months fuelled heavily by an increase in borrowing from Gen Z. Is this young people being irresponsible? Does it speak more to economic strife in the...
social media’s landmark addiction case + first major arrest for sexual deepfakes
can they prove what we all know? The sun rises and falls, the rivers flow, and every other month Zuckerberg enters the defendant’s dock to commence lengthy court proceedings. The Meta owner has had several major run-ins with the law since Cambridge Analytica, mostly over a lax company attitude towards user privacy. However, the ongoing case now has major ramifications that could extend beyond putting the tycoon the odd billion...
Opinion – the manosphere narrative is being muddied
We’ve heard plenty about how the manosphere is radicalising young boys, but is it having as big an impact as institutions are claiming? Initially used to describe lowly incel gatherings, the term has snowballed into a loose catch-all for elements that don’t always align. Louis Theroux has a new Netflix documentary on the way for March titled Inside The Manosphere. Predictably, the promo includes cutaways of online personalities like Sneako, HStikkytokky,...
HR teams are constantly battling AI generated grievances
HR teams are reporting being bogged down by overly lengthy grievances framed around legal precedents that don’t even exist. Rearing its head on a daily basis, the culprit is generative AI. Have you ever felt so aggrieved you couldn’t articulate yourself properly? Maybe you considered letting AI be angry for you? If the answer is yes, and your choice of battleground was email, you may be one of a growing number...
