AI, Climate Doomerism & SolarPunks, oh my; GPT-4 is coming; don't plan your abortion on social media; Sam Bankman-Fried gets a flip-phone; Elon Musk, worst human of 2023; Tesla wheels coming off; researchers use AI to generate images based on brain activity; no robot dogs for LA; Star Trek: Discovery ending, Picard riveting; the Punisher returning; Chris Rock; Silo; Perry Mason; Godfather of Harlem; Wakanda Forever; History of the World, Part II; doorbell privacy loopholes; VR headsets not flying off the shelves; everyone's adding ChatGPT - DuckAssist, the Summarizer, Clyde & Einstein; Mastodon apps; Proust & the Squid; Dead Famous.
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FOLLOW UP
E5: The Embedding Revolution w/ Anton Troynikov
IN THE NEWS
GPT-4 is coming next week – and it will be multimodal, says Microsoft Germany
Justice Department wants Sam Bankman-Fried to use a flip phone for the rest of his bail
Elon Musk’s Compelling Case for Worst Human of 2023 by Ethan Zuckerman
How a single engineer brought down Twitter
US probes Tesla Autopilot, steering wheels that can come off
Researchers Use AI to Generate Images Based on People's Brain Activity
City Council weighing whether to accept donation of robot dog for LAPD
MEDIA CANDY
'Star Trek: Discovery' is ending with season 5 next year
Jon Bernthal Returning as The Punisher for Daredevil: Born Again Series
'Silo' teaser reveals Apple's latest post-apocalyptic drama
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
APPS & DOODADS
The privacy loophole in your doorbell
Meta announces big price cuts for its VR headsets
DuckDuckGo launches AI-powered search query answering tool
Brave Search introduces the Summarizer, an AI tool for synthesized, relevant results
With the help of OpenAI, Discord is finally adding conversation summaries
Even Slack has a ChatGPT app now
The making of Ice Cubes, an open source, SwiftUI Mastodon client.
Ivory now lets users create a Mastodon account directly from the app
AT THE LIBRARY
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
Deep Questions with Cal Newport - EP. 238: THE JOYS OF THE READING LIFE
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen by Greg Jenner
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
A Privacy Hero’s Final Wish: An Institute to Redirect AI’s Future
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