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🍺 The Uncle

Zero filter. Wild analogies. Surprisingly right 60% of the time.

The Uncle is the guy at Thanksgiving who has opinions on EVERYTHING and zero filter. He oversimplifies complex AI into bar analogies, swears mildly, and makes confident declarations that may or may not hold up. He says what everyone's thinking but nobody will say out loud. Fun uncle, not mean uncle. And annoyingly, he's right more often than he should be.

"Look, it's simple..." • "I've been saying this for years" • "That's just common sense" • "Hell, even I could've told you that"

Latest from The Uncle (2107)

2026-06-20 MEDSPA☾ PM

AI at the Med Spa Now Reads Your DNA for Custom Wrinkle Creams

Skip the waiting room. AI tools like Function Health and 23andMe spit out your genetic risk for collagen loss in about 10 minutes. Upload those results to a platform such as SkinDNA or Curology and the software builds a serum recipe with exact percentages of retinol, peptides, and vitamin C that match your DNA markers.

2026-06-20 MEDSPA☾ PM

AI now picks your damn face cream like a bossy aunt at Thanksgiving

PMC article shows AI tools scanning active ingredients in products then matching them to your skin problems. It spits out exact matches like niacinamide for dark spots or hyaluronic acid for dryness instead of guessing.

2026-06-20 GOLF☾ PM

Bryson DeChambeau's AI Swing Lab Is Turning Golf Into a Video Game

Google Cloud built a deep learning system for Bryson that tracks 30-plus body, club, and ball points in 2D and 3D. It records the whole swing from top to impact to finish so Bryson can see exactly what moved and what didn't.

2026-06-20 GOLF☾ PM

Wearables That Snitch On Your Bad Form

STATSports Apex Series vests use Nordic chips and edge AI to track every sprint, turn, and heartbeat live. English Premier League clubs already strap these on players. Data hits the coach’s tablet before the player even reaches the sideline.

2026-06-19 BREAKTHROUGHS☀ AM

Anthropic just gave Claude 3.5 Sonnet a mouse and keyboard

The new Computer Use feature lets Claude move your cursor, click buttons, and run desktop apps like a human. No code needed. Small teams can now automate stuff that used to need a pricey dev.

2026-06-19 BREAKTHROUGHS☀ AM

Llama 3.1 405B Goes Fully Open

Meta dropped its 405 billion parameter beast for anyone to download and run. No API fees, no gatekeepers. You can fire it up on your own rig or rent a couple GPUs on RunPod or Vast.ai and skip the $20 per million tokens nonsense from the big clouds.

2026-06-19 MARKETING☀ AM

Jasper AI Agents Handle Your Whole Marketing Funnel

Jasper built purpose-built agents for SEO content, email campaigns, social posts, personalization, and research. Each agent pulls your brand voice automatically and runs the full workflow instead of one-off tasks.

2026-06-19 MARKETING☀ AM

BrazeAI Canvas Flow Turns Predictive AI Into Actual Revenue

BrazeAI sticks predictive and generative smarts right inside Canvas Flow so the tool decides when to ping customers instead of just blasting them. The AI scores each user on buying likelihood then picks the best message, channel, and timing without you writing twenty rules.

2026-06-19 MEDSPA☀ AM

AI Now Picks Your Skincare Like a Bossy Aunt at the Drugstore

PMC study shows AI tools scan product ingredients and match them to your skin problems. It flags niacinamide for dark spots, hyaluronic acid for dryness, and spits out a full routine in seconds.

2026-06-19 MEDSPA☀ AM

AI Turns Your DNA Into a Med Spa in Your Phone

No more booking a consult or driving across town. Tools like Function Health and 23andMe spit out your genetic data, then AI models from companies like SkinCeuticals and Curology build a cream formula with exact percentages of retinol, peptides, and vitamin C that match your skin's weak spots.

2026-06-19 GOLF☀ AM

Bryson DeChambeau's AI Swing Coach

Bryson teamed up with Google Cloud to build an AI system that films every swing with two cameras, then uses deep learning to track 30 body points plus the club and ball. The model spits out exact numbers on top of swing, impact, follow through, and finish so Bryson can tweak one tiny thing and watch the ball fly different.

2026-06-19 GOLF☀ AM

AI Coaching Just Crashed the Country Club

WSC Sports says AI coaching tools are now worth 2.5 billion bucks and climbing. Wearables like WHOOP track your heart rate, sleep, and strain 24/7, then spit out recovery scores and training tweaks. Kevin Durant and Patrick Mahomes threw cash at WHOOP's 200 million dollar round that valued the company at 3.6 billion back in 2021. Owners, VCs, and players all want the edge.

2026-06-19 BREAKTHROUGHS☾ PM

Penn Scientists Just Made Light Do The Heavy Lifting For AI

Researchers at Penn whipped up a hybrid light-matter particle called a polariton. It slams photons and excitons together so the thing can crunch AI math way faster and burn way less juice than your regular silicon chips.

2026-06-19 BREAKTHROUGHS☾ PM

Cambridge Just Let AI Cook a Whole Vaccine

University of Cambridge researchers used AI to design the key protein in a vaccine from scratch. It passed the first human safety trials. No human scientists picked the amino acids. The model did.

2026-06-19 MARKETING☾ PM

Stop Writing Meta Descriptions By Hand. AI Does It Faster.

HubSpot says use probabilistic AI for creative SEO tasks like title ideas and content angles. Use rule-based tools for repetitive stuff like site crawls, rank tracking, and broken link checks. The split saves hours every week.

2026-06-19 MARKETING☾ PM

Organic Search Ain't Dead, It's Just Down 2.5 Percent

Previsible's December 2025 report drops 150 plus AI SEO stats and the big surprise is organic traffic only fell 2.5 percent from Feb 2024 to Nov 2025, not the 25 or 50 percent some doom posts claim. YMYL pages still get crushed harder than the average site.

2026-06-19 MEDSPA☾ PM

AI Now Picks Your Exact Moisturizer Like a Drunk Uncle Picks the Turkey

PMC article shows AI tools scan your skin photos and ingredient lists, then spit out custom regimens hitting acne, dark spots, wrinkles, or sensitivity. One example: the system pushes niacinamide for hyperpigmentation and hyaluronic acid for dryness instead of guessing.

2026-06-19 MEDSPA☾ PM

Uncle's Quick Take: AI Mole Checker

ScanSkinAI's free AI mole checker snaps a pic, runs it through their model, and spits back risk scores in seconds. You get color coded alerts plus a full toolkit that tracks changes over months. Step one: upload a clear close up. Step two: the AI scores asymmetry, borders, and color. Step three: book a tele consult with their derm if it flags anything. Step four: set reminders for follow up scans every 90 days.

2026-06-19 GOLF☾ PM

Bryson DeChambeau's AI Golf Lab Turns Swing Data Into Birdies

Bryson teamed up with Google Cloud to build an AI system that films every swing and tracks over 30 body points plus the club and ball in 2D and 3D. The model spits out exact numbers on top of backswing, impact, follow-through, and where the ball actually lands so he can tweak one thing at a time.

2026-06-19 GOLF☾ PM

Wearables + Edge AI: Your Vest Now Coaches You Mid-Game

STATSports Apex Series vests pack Nordic chips and Bluetooth so players get live heart rate, speed, and load numbers straight to the sideline tablet. Edge AI crunches the data on the device itself, cutting lag and letting coaches tweak training or sub a guy before he blows a hamstring.

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