Mathias Black

@mpblack
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Hey, I'm Mathias - a strategic communications and content marketing consultant based in Copenhagen, DK. I love all things storytelling (and have written and published 14 novels in my "spare" time). Let's connect!
Websitehttps://www.mathiasblack.com
I've been harping on about the qualitative vs. quantitative divide in #contentmarketing so when I saw this article by Mark Ritson in Think with #Google, I had that lovely, tingly feeling of another human validating my own point of view. Maybe you'll like it too.😄
https://business.google.com/en-all/think/search-and-video/mark-ritson-bothism/
Before you continue

What is powering AI?

YouTube

Could you produce the energy needed to make a piece of toast? This is such a helpful way to make the cost of energy tangible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4O5voOCqAQ& #energy #climate

Olympic Cyclist Vs. Toaster: Can He Power It?

YouTube
Is #Pixelfed on #iOS not working? Or even defunct? I've tried the app, but it keeps giving me an error and then crashing. I can see the last update was 6 months ago...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@protonblog/116224894486530783

I wonder if eventually we'll see #Meta also remove E2E encryption from Messenger and #whatsapp

When I first left the ex-Twitter platform, I expected to use #Bluesky a lot. But I keep gravitating more toward Mastodon. It might be because #Mastodon feels genuinely different, whereas Bluesky keeps reminding me of what #Twitter used to be.
The way I read this: countries have the ability to turn wealth into trust, but the richest nation in the world fails to do so.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/12/01/where-most-people-trust-others-and-where-they-dont-around-the-world/
Where most people trust others and where they don’t around the world

Trust tends to be higher in the high-income countries surveyed than in the middle-income ones.

Pew Research Center

This chart from Pew Research Center shows the level of public trust across 25 countries. There's a clear correlation between wealth and trust.

BUT, the U.S. deviates from many of its fellow rich nations:

"While the U.S. has the highest per-capita gross domestic product (GDP) of the countries surveyed, the share of Americans who say most people can be trusted is similar to that in less wealthy nations like Indonesia and Spain."

This LLM often hallucinates. It fails to handle intense inputs and may simply freeze at crucial moments. It runs on outdated software and data.

Yet we don't define clear validation to mitigate hallucination. Nor consider its physical limitations when it comes to inputs. Or do the work to update its software and data.

I'm talking about non-artificial intelligence, of course: the human.

Gartner says #AI investment will reach $2.5 trillion in 2026. Imagine if we spent that on #mentalhealth.

After years of unexamined Apple #iPhone fandom, I’m seriously considering an #Android.

Have you gone from iPhone to Android, and what do you think? How was the move? How do you like your smartphone now?

I’m particularly interested in the #NothingPhone. A big motivation here is cost. The Nothing Phone 3a and 4a are so much less expensive than a comparable iPhone. Any thoughts on Android phones/models?