Ok, this was surprisingly good. Gotta admit this adjusted some of my priors.

Pocket Casts

#399 – Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East

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Culture Series > Dune https://archive.ph/2023.10.14-215613/https://www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/2017/11/12/why-the-culture-wins-an-appreciation-of-iain-m-banks/

John Robb’s Substack 🔥

Onward to the Hollow State

Is the US hollowing out? The ongoing migrant crisis indicates it is.

If this is the first step in using LLM-generated headlines based on the content within, I’d welcome it. Editorially-written newspaper headlines are a significant source of audience manipulation.

X (formerly Twitter)

Kylie Robison (@kyliebytes) on X

Scoop: X/Twitter, is planning a major change in how news articles appear on the service, stripping out the headline and other text so that tweets w...

Read this earlier today and now I really want to see Simone Biles move to the high jump.

Matt Levine is a smart guy, but his schtick is to write something pithy that includes lots of snarky pointing and laughing. He could educate his readers about demand response, or tell them about how Bitcoin mining acts like a giant flywheel that smoothes out the potentially damaging shifts in short-term energy needs in a large grid that supplies an area with unpredictable weather. But that would limit the pointing and laughing.

Bloomberg.com

You Can Sell the Bitcoins You Don’t Mine

Also Morgan Stanley succession, VC platforms, activist hedge funds, Yellow’s value, the size of the pepperoni market and bribe refunds.

And here it is. Next bet is that they shooting to launch this with the Vision Pro or in an early point release.

Bloomberg.com

Apple Tests ‘Apple GPT,’ Develops Generative AI Tools to Catch OpenAI

Apple Inc. is quietly working on artificial intelligence tools that could challenge those of OpenAI Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and others, but ...

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