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In “Mountainhead,” a savagely entertaining but somewhat shallow new satire written and directed by the creator of “Succession,” tech is never morally in the black, and the people who create it are no better than despots—inept ones at that, @chaykak.bsky.social writes.

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built-in ball pit in this DC rowhouse www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

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can't tell if "video podcasts" are an end-state of digital content or if they'll be as quickly replaced as, say, original videos on facebook when those were getting heavy promotion. I guess AI-generated custom avatar podcasts lol

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running a fun thing in One Thing newsletter where anyone can submit a link / rec / promo blurb and we'll share it in a future newsletter to 9k subs, hope no one from here clicks on it and suggests a fun travel destination or craft-y side project... onethingnewsletter.substack.com/p/plaid-for-...

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Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.

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Damian Hirst is like the paperclip maximizer of art. Unless he's stopped, he'll convert all the earth's resources into shitty spot paintings and put all its creatures into tanks of formaldehyde news.artnet.com/art-world/da...

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scoop: Business Insider is reducing staff by 21% as it reduces its reliance on “traffic-sensitive businesses.” Memo from CEO Barbara Peng:

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gen z is learning to light videos the same way millennials learned to communicate their thoughts in AIM-length boxes of text

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On the internet, the winning ideas are often not the best ideas but simply the most transmissible ones. Can this problem be solved?

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this trend of people attaching self worth to the performance of their favorite website, video game, piece of media needs to die a violently fast death and i'm so serious we are not fucking shareholders calm down nerds

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"traditional browsers, as we know them, will die." browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-...

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Rather fascinating read about this platform and its CEO @jay.bsky.team by @chaykak.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Imagine you’re drowning and a robot appears in the sky yelling “don’t fight the current because the current is your currency,”

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alice coltrane could build artificial general intelligence but AI could never write Journey in Satchidananda

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this is a good word

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raising $6 billion dollars from OpenAI to make pokemon real

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I asked ChatGPT to render what the next generation of all-encompassing portable personal AI device is going to look like

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obsessed with this 17th century Provence bastide www.green-acres.fr/en/propertie...

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Just learned that in his first general audience address yesterday, Pope Leo used a specific painting—Van Gogh's 1888 Sower at Sunset—to interpret the well-known parable of the sower. Here's the painting in question, and the relevant text from Leo's address. Good to know the new Pope is an art fan!

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In which I use my extensive experience :cough: torture :cough: testing AI hardware to make an educated guess at this roller coaster of a news week.

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im sick of staring at my phone screen, instead i want to wear semi-transparent screens over my eyes every second i'm not unconscious

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is nothing sacred

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The Verge, NYmag, and of course New Yorker are the digital subs I read the most, without fail

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SCOOP: I have acquired leaked preliminary renderings of OpenAI x Jony Ive's new device

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clear, depressing set of observations from @randomwalker.bsky.social - "The decline of reading-for-pleasure (due to video) and reading-for-information (due to AI) will accelerate each other, as reading text without an intermediary will come to be seen as a chore."

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I have a growing sense that everything I have learned over the past 30 years has led me to this post

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I've been working with Olivia and Cara since we launched the Barbed Wire and they're both excellent journalists with unimpeachable integrity. They did not deserve to have to deal with this: www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...

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damn now what's going to happen to jony ive's raincoats with magnetic buttons

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Jony Ive and Sam Altman announce that OpenAI is buying Jony's device company io… Whooboy, super curious to watch this. (Also an interesting set up having announce it over a staged coffee in a coffee shop is really interesting— Adds a fun, cinematic twist.) https://youtu.be/W09bIpc_3ms?si=UrgaQzKy

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Beneath all the laser blasters and X-wing spaceships on Disney+’s “Andor,” you’ll find some of the most trenchant mainstream critique of contemporary political gridlock on TV, @chaykak.bsky.social writes.

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joshua citarella is the left/acc joe rogan

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