I spent three weeks staring at the NYT "54% prefer AI" study. Everyone drew the wrong conclusion from it.

The automation crowd sees vindication. The skeptics see apocalypse. Both wrong.

There's a third read that nobody's talking about. It changes the math for solo creators entirely ⤵️

54% of readers in a NYT study preferred AI-written articles over human ones.

Everyone's celebrating or panicking. Both wrong.

It tested AI vs. average unassisted human writing. Not AI vs. a human who's documented their patterns and co-writes systematically.

The 54% doesn't prove AI writes marginally better than humans. It proves AI writes better than humans who don't know what they're doing.

That's a different claim entirely.

AI slop is a tax. And quality creators are the ones paying it.

Your good content gets buried under mediocre AI output that algorithms can't tell apart from yours.

The slop factories profit on volume. You lose on visibility.

The incentives will flip. They always do. The question is when you build for it.

My OpenClaw agent Momo is supposed to find content I'd love and send it to my second brain.

Today's haul: n8n tutorials, AI breakdowns...

And Rick Astley 🤦‍♂️

Never gonna give you up, Momo.

I have 147 content ideas in a Notion database.

I've published eleven.

One of them says "Voice + tempo + the pizza thingy???"

Here's what I built instead of another idea list 🧵👇

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I accidentally built a knockoff JARVIS this week. With a VM and 20 minutes of effort.

Anthropic dropped two updates that, separately, are just nice features.

Together (with one dumb hack) they're a full mobile-first AI workflow.

Here's the setup 🧵

Just read a newsletter about authenticity that contains zero authentic voice.

Not written by AI. Written by a human so marinated in the content meta-game that his writing about being different sounds identical to everyone else writing about being different.

Ensloppification caught in the act. And the call was coming from inside the house.

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Butters 13th birthday is coming up. He's about to be a teenager!

Don't tell him he's about to get the #Labubu he (we) always wanted 🤫