AC @AhCarr

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice. You thought it was you. It is not you. Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse. Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like. The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation. Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first. What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland. Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved. They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data. The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment." The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible. This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis. The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world. Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.

Wendy’s U.S. same-store sales fell 11.3% in Q4. McDonald’s U.S. same-store sales rose 6.8% in the same quarter. That’s an 18-point gap between the #2 and #1 burger chains, and it tells you everything about where fast food is heading. The entire industry is going through a sorting event. Starbucks closed roughly 400-500 locations. Jack in the Box is shutting up to 200. Noodles & Company closed 42. Denny’s shuttered 150. Red Robin planned 70. The common thread: mid-tier chains that couldn’t figure out how to be either the cheapest option or a premium experience are getting squeezed out. McDonald’s cracked the code. They relaunched Extra Value Meals in September, ran the Grinch Meal (which set their all-time highest single-day sales record), hit 46 million active loyalty app users, and grew global systemwide sales to nearly $140 billion. They’re opening 2,600 new restaurants in 2026, targeting 50,000 total by 2027. Wendy’s response? Close 300-358 stores, guide EPS down from $0.88 to $0.56-0.60, and let franchisees stop offering breakfast because they can’t make it work. The stock went from $16.20 to $7.48 in under a year. Market cap: $1.4 billion. McDonald’s market cap: ~$233 billion. The ratio between them has never been wider. The consumer math explains all of it. When a family of four can eat at McDonald’s for $20 with value bundles, Wendy’s $4-6-8 “Biggie Deals” menu isn’t differentiated enough to justify the trip. Wendy’s was always positioned on quality (“fresh, never frozen”), but that premium identity collapses when your customers are trading down and your competitor is spending billions on Minecraft meals and loyalty infrastructure you can’t match. And the CEO who was supposed to fix this left for Hershey after just 18 months. The guy calling this a “rebuilding year” is the CFO filling in as interim CEO. When your turnaround plan is called “Project Fresh,” your big innovation is a cheesy bacon cheeseburger, and you’re telling investors 2026 will be worse than 2025, you’re not rebuilding. You’re managing decline.

Breaking911 @Breaking911

4 months ago

BREAKING: Wendy's to close hundreds of restaurants in 2026, what interim CEO Ken Cook calls a 'rebuilding year' -FOX

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Nobody really talks about this, but once you start healing past trauma and your body comes out of “fight or flight” mode, your body will crave a lot of rest and silence. Your body finally starts to feel safe in the peace, quiet and calm. You aren't lazy. Your body is just catching up on all the years it didn't have this stillness. You deserve this.

I'm dying here 🤣🤣🤣

Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz

6 months ago

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I

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In 2006 Will Ferrell surprised the SNL audience when he joined musical guest Queens of the Stone Age as his "Cowbell" character from six years earlier. When lead singer Josh Homme kept laughing during rehearsal, he was told to try to think of Will as a serious musician so he wouldn't break 😂

A mi me gustan mucho de estos: 🤤❤️

Hace demasiado tiempo que no llegaba a las 2 am leyendo un libro ❤️

UPDATE: The AI didn’t just ghost your resume. It discriminated. A federal judge just ordered Workday to hand over a full list of employers that used AI to rank job applicants. Not just their tech… but every company that enabled HiredScore. And now it’s evidence. 🧵👇

Así como a veces toca vivir duelos que no esperabas todavía te falta vivir felicidad que no te imaginas

Una versión mexicana de 'The Bear' en la que un egresado del Instituto Culinario México que trabajó como chef en Quintonil tiene que regresar a su natal Monterrey a hacerse cargo del restaurante de tostadas que su hermano dejó al fallecer. Obviamente se llama 'El Oso'.

Te dices fan de oasis pero no le has metido un putazo a tu hermano hoy