Attention — Oct 7, 2026
What caught my attention on Oct 7 (16 items).
“Cycular” Financing w/ GamersNexus
Better Offline · 04:36
CZM Rewind: The Man That Destroyed Google Search
Better Offline · 09:00
The Rot Society
Better Offline · 09:56
William Lazonick on How The Stock Market Killed Tech
Better Offline · 10:58
The Streisand Effect with Mike Masnick
Better Offline · 11:59
A Nobel Economist’s Plan To Tax Digital Ads
Better Offline · 12:53
A Requiem for Prabhakar Raghavan
Better Offline · 13:24
Embedding Gemma 2: Multimodal Search & RAG (Free Colab)
Prompt Engineering · 13:33
The video introduces Embedding Gemma 2, a compact open multimodal embedding model from Google DeepMind that maps text, code, images, video, and audio into a shared vector space. The presenter explains why this matters for search and retrieval-augmented generation: much real-world data is visual or auditory, and text-only RAG cannot retrieve photos, screen recordings, voice notes, or videos unless…
“Cycular” Financing w/ GamersNexus | Better Offline
Better Offline · 13:56
In this episode of Better Offline, Ed Zitron and Steve Burke of GamersNexus discuss Nvidia’s “cyclical” financing and growing concerns that the AI boom is being sustained by circular deals, debt, and questionable data-center promises. They argue that Nvidia’s revenue is heavily concentrated among a few large buyers, many of whom may not have deployed the GPUs they purchased, raising fears of an AI…
Data Vampires with Paris Marx
Better Offline · 14:26
Zephyr Teachout On Corruption
Better Offline · 15:23
The Subprime AI Crisis
Better Offline · 16:29
Why OpenAI Is A Terrible Business
Better Offline · 17:35
Mythos: not the magical AI hacking tool after all
Pivot to AI · 18:23
In this Pivot to AI episode, David Gerard argues that Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, marketed in April as an exceptionally dangerous AI hacking tool, has not lived up to that reputation. Although Mythos was promoted as so effective that the US government temporarily restricted it, Gerard says its apparent success relied heavily on Anthropic’s subsidies and extensive human review. Anthropic’s Project G…
The Department of Justice V Google Ads: Part 4
Better Offline · 22:06
How To Break the Internet with Chris Stokel-Walker
Better Offline · 23:21