Business Socializer Brief 10-29-2024
Your AI "friend" is here, Be better at group chats, Inflation is way more than officially reported
The age of the AI “friend” is here and your teenager might have one.
When did the movie Her come out?
Brazil sues Meta and TikTok for over $500 million for not protecting minors
This isn’t about kids. This is about government controlling speech. Same reason Brazil’s heavy handed government went after X.
Microsoft accuses Google of orchestrating ‘shadow campaigns’
Because you know Microsoft is like, you know, totally ethical and would never do something like that.
How to Be a Group Chat Pro
I have way too many group chats and I am definitely not a pro. But maybe this article will help you.
So if one pays for an actively managed fund one has a better than 50% chance of performing worse than the S&P.
Remember this the next time you talk to your financial advisor.
I Wore Meta's Orion AR Glasses: A Wireless Taste of a Neural Future
We’ve been waiting.
Why Nobody Believes The "Data": Surging Prices Of Everyday Items Are Excluded From CPI
"The CPI is capturing the goods and services that you purchased for consumption, but there are things that affect your cost of living that are outside of that," explains Steve Reed, a BLS economist. For instance, interest charges on rising consumer debt are largely absent from the CPI. Roughly $628 billion in revolving credit card debt now bears an average interest rate of about 22%, yet these costs aren’t reflected in consumer inflation data.