Quite a statement from Apple about Spotify. I can’t recall ever seeing something quite like this. I’m sure Daniel will post a video on LinkedIn any minute.
Between January 2016 and December 2022, the monthly antidepressant dispensing rate increased 66.3%, from 2575.9 to 4284.8. Before March 2020, this rate increased by 17.0 per month (95% confidence interval: 15.2 to 18.8). The COVID-19 outbreak was not associated with a level change but was associated with a slope increase of 10.8 per month (95% confidence interval: 4.9 to 16.7). The monthly antidepressant dispensing rate increased 63.5% faster from March 2020 onwards compared with beforehand. In subgroup analyses, this rate increased 129.6% and 56.5% faster from March 2020 onwards compared with beforehand among females aged 12 to 17 years and 18 to 25 years, respectively. In contrast, the outbreak was associated with a level decrease among males aged 12 to 17 years and was not associated with a level or slope change among males aged 18 to 25 years.
From Antidepressant Dispensing to US Adolescents and Young Adults: 2016–2022 via Marginal Revolution
I had to read this a few times before it registered. This is some dark stuff, especially as the father of a daughter. What are we doing?
Anthropic announced Claude 3 today. Depending on who you ask and what the prompt deals with, it seems like this is about as close as anyone has gotten to GPT-4 performance. We live in ever-exciting times.
RIP Richard Lewis. One of the greats. I guess Larry has an answer now.
A day will never pass when I don’t type ⌘-K in Slack to hyperlink a word instead of ⌘-V. Every time I do it, I curse out loud. I cannot think of another equivalent in my life.
Kottke posted about the new Robert Putnum documentary, Join or Die, which looks absolutely fascinating.
Thank you for jumping on this last-minute Zoom meeting. As you’re all well aware, this has been a great year for us. Profits are at an all-time high. Our stock price is at an all-time high. Growth projections for the coming year are through the roof. You all have done an amazing job ushering in a new era of success for this company. So amazing, in fact, that we have no choice but to let you all go.
It’s the end of the web as we know it. The end of wading through unhelpful results to get reliable information?! OMG what ever will the advertisers do?? Publishers and content owners will license their content, the AI Answer Companies will pass along the costs to consumers just as they’re used to accessing everything for free, subsidized by venture capital and it will just become another monthly subscription. What am I missing?
Excited to have acquired a first printing of The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet, written by some of my favorite writers about all things Internet.
It feels like American society is getting ever more polarized. Conspiracies, especially among right-wing extremists, can be a force multiplier for radicalization. The problem is that once people believe in a conspiracy, they aren’t likely to change their mind.