How to Take Out the Drudgery of Day to Day Life

Marissa Myers' new company is supposed to be all about taking out the drudgery of day to day life. She's heard that actually the services are really good for that sort of stuff. Some people are really good at this, my mom was for no particular reason. Could just tell you what it was. You could tell me a phone number once and I would remember it for years. And then I discovered alcohol, which was around the same time the cell phone came out. So causation is not correlation. Correlation is not causation. Just ground on the fall of the hard edges of your memory.

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RIP, Metaverse; nobody knows how LLMs work; CEOs that don't go into offices want you to go in; ChatGPT is low-paid people; sure, let's let AI generate mRNA vaccines; OURA acquires Proxy, but not science; MTV News shuttered; writer's strike; Spotify removes tons of AI generated songs; Google text-to-music in beta; Tucker turns to Twitter; the Diplomat; Slow Horses; Silo; Ted Lasso; Succession; Barry; the Muppets Mayhem; Bupkus; Beetlejuiice 2; Foundation: here be dragons?; Good Omens 2; FAST; Apple spatial audio; Blueky; sexy Alf; the Mission; Factory Records; Chip War; Star Wars: Visions; Citizen & Nextdoor; AI John Mayer; outsourcing inspiration; the EGOT of the internet.

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