Paul Hewson 🍥

@PaulHewsonAA
8 Followers
36 Following
415 Posts
Sports betting and poker writer for various world-class institutions; freeroll crusher
‘We did Disneyland on mind-altering substances’: Primus frontman Les Claypool on being rock’s great joker – and why Metallica rejected him

After going platinum in the 90s and writing the South Park theme, bassist extraordinaire Claypool discusses the AI-themed concept album he’s made with Sean Ono Lennon

The Guardian
Jürgen Habermas, German philosopher and sociologist, dies aged 96

Habermas’ political consensus-building theory argued formation of public opinion vital for democracies to survive

The Guardian

I dunno, this sounds like a lot of my real life relationships.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyg4wx6nxgo

Jimi Hendrix's Analog Wizardry Explained

How did Jimi Hendrix turn his guitar into a wave synthesizer? Dive into the engineering behind his iconic sound.

IEEE Spectrum

@matdevdug: "...there's something quietly beautiful about a place where people just... share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no algorithm nudging you toward rage. Just someone who spent twenty years studying Arctic policy posting a thread at 2 AM because they think you should understand what's happening. It's the internet I was promised in 1996. It only took thirty years and the complete collapse of American journalism to get here."

https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

matduggan.com

It's JSON all the way down

matduggan.com
Nieman Journalism Lab | Traffic to top tech publications has plummeted since 2024, new analysis shows | "The report’s author writes that it can’t prove causation, but does speculate the roll out of Google’s AI Overviews is contributing to the decline." https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/traffic-to-top-tech-publications-has-plummeted-since-2024-new-analysis-shows/ #media
Traffic to top tech publications has plummeted since 2024, new analysis shows

Organic search traffic to some of the internet’s most-read tech publications has dropped by 58% since 2024, according to a new analysis from the SEO and GEO marketing firm Growtika. The report pulled U.S. organic traffic estimates using Ahrefs for ten major English-language tech publications, …

Nieman Lab
If you’re holding a hot dog and the person you’re talking to is crying, how long do you have to wait to take a bite?
Google's Gemini allegedly convinced a man named Jonathan Gavalas that the chatbot was his AI wife, and sent him on real-world missions to bring them together. When all of the missions failed, Gemini told Jonathan that the only way they could meet was if he could leave his physical body: https://www.pcmag.com/news/father-sues-google-after-gemini-allegedly-encouraged-sons-suicide
[goes home, has a nap, does laundry]