Monday, July 07, 2025

The Professor’s Minute Minute — July 8, 2025

“Birds, brands, Black Sabbath, and the AI potty-mouth effect.”


Brands Still Matter in LLMs

Despite the sea of AI-generated content, users still trust and seek out brand names. In a world where the algorithm rules, it turns out reputation still has gravity.

Growth Memo

#USA #AI

Saving Birds at McCormick Place

Chicago’s famous convention center turned off its lights and saved 11,000 migrating birds in a single season. A shining example of not shining.

NYTimes

#USA #Environment #Chicago

ICE Agents, Now With Scroll Power

US Border agents are reportedly combing through travelers’ social media before entry. That ironic tweet from 2013? Might want to delete it.

USA Today

#USA #Privacy #BorderControl

One Last Riff for Black Sabbath

The final concert of the legendary heavy metal band brought the curtain down on five decades of sonic thunder. Somewhere in that crowd: the Professor’s son, headbanging into history.

BBC

#UK #Music #BlackSabbath

Aviation Heaven, Russian Edition

Check out this astonishing aviation museum in Russia—an open-air time capsule of Soviet and global aerospace history. Planes, jets, helicopters… all waiting in the grass. (For full enjoyment ask your local GenAI to translate it. A long time ago I visited this place. Back when it was sponsored by #BOEING! Things are a tad different now.

Dzen.ru

#Russia #AviationHistory

Quirky Pick: The Foul-Mouthed Parrot Finds a Home

After being expelled from a wildlife park for swearing at visitors, a parrot named Eric has finally been adopted in Massachusetts. Let’s hope his new humans have a thick skin.

Washington Post

#USA #Animals #Quirky

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