Six quick links for Sunday afternoon

Focus on quality and authenticity to surround yourself with quality and authenticity. Building communities by doing, rather than aspiring to be part of the “in-group” resonates so hard.

“It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.”–Peter Drucker. Call it confirmation bias if you like, but I think of myself as an opportunity exploiter, rather than a problem solver.

10 Self-Defeating Behaviors You Need to Let Go. I’ve worked hard to overcome a bunch of these the past 5 or so years. The struggle is real and I suspect, forever.

Convert videos of people speaking into videos of them speaking one of several different languages (including English, Spanish, Hindi, and French) with matching mouth movements. As Kottke says, the results are definitely in the category of “indistinguishable from magic.”

As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging. Speaking of AI, there’s a large global workforce being exploited doing “bullshit jobs” for low wages? Quelle surprise!

AI’s massive compute load doesn’t just generate carbon – it uses huge amounts of fresh water for cooling. While we’re still on the topic, it’s all the rage, and perhaps there’s a future, but as far as I can tell, it’s currently a large Wizard of Oz-style illusion.