This is crazy! So many tax and other financial forms out in the open. But the most interesting file I’ve seen so far seems to be a book draft titled “HOOD NIGGA AFFIRMATIONS: A Collection of Affirming Anecdotes for Hood Niggas Everywhere”. I made it to page 27 out of 63.
I dunno, page 27 is where it started getting good. I actually have to admit I like this guy's relentless positivity and he actually spent real money to pay someone via Fiverr to typeset it, edit it, etc. for him.
after reading it, it's super positive and really great. I wouldn't consider myself the target audience for this, but ill probably work it into my morning practice a little for a couple weeks.
I found someone's manuscript, at first I thought it would be scandalous to find it ghost written, but it actually is just annotations and someone proof reading it, the annotations come up in the PDF
I found the author on Amazon and the book still hasn't been released
- It’s crazy to me how they have pictures of four chimps “hugging it out” one year and then four years later, three of them are killing the fourth.
- “The last offspring produced by a male and female that lived in different postfission groups was conceived in March 2015. After 2015, all offspring with known parentage were conceived by males and females from the same group… A few Central females and their dependent offspring occasionally joined Western chimpanzees at fig trees.” This is like when the Red Cross organizes family reunification events during conflicts.
— “For help organizing and analyzing spatial data and formatting final versions of the figures in R, we used Claude (models: 3.7 Sonnet, Opus 4, and Opus 4.5; Anthropic, 2025).”
Ha, I had the same idea before I realized it’ll just be used for ads. It would be cool for pilots’ announcements on a flight, or approaching stations on the train etc. But CVS will use it to tell you to download their app and enroll in ExtraCare Rewards. Or “Did you know you may be due for more than fourteen vaccines all at no cost to you?”
There was a story recently about how large landlords use salary data to raise rents. If they see you got a raise, they’ll increase your rent accordingly. And pretty soon, retailers will do the same. Your personalized price for a gallon of milk at Walmart will reflect your annual raise. I love living in the future!
Large institutional landlords use Equifax data, TWN, and other 3rd party financial tracking systems to dynamically price renters across the board; new rentals, security deposit, renewals, etc. These are pricing strategies insurance companies use to their advantage, often partnering with landlords to ensure they're getting risk-reduced renters.
Presumably this also means if you don't get a raise, they don't raise your rent as much, knowing it would make you more likely to move. They no longer have to guess about your ability to pay.
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