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  • DeepFake Videos Going Mainstream (Everyone Can Create Them Now)

    This is happening faster than most of us anticipated: This is the deep fake technology that is availible right now. FREE. We should have open and honest conversations about it. Pretending its going to be some niche thing and hard to access is a huge mistake. 2 months i'm guessing, Millions will have access. pic.twitter.com/7jZVECGNWD…

  • Douglas Adams On Technological Progress

    Douglas Adams wrote a famous essay back in 1999 called: How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet. Since this is a time of drastic technological change, it’s worth recalling “the way these things work” according to Adams:

  • Spin Up Red Cells: What It Means

    To best understand what “spinning up red cells” means, let’s use an example: Changing the way a large bureaucracy works is almost impossible. What you can do however is spin up red cells. In this context, “to spin up red cells” refers to creating independent groups or teams (red cells) within the organization. These groups…

  • Curated Documentaries

    There are A LOT of documentaries out there, but not many are great. Here’s a site that has curated some topnotch documentaries: https://rocumentaries.com/

  • Adobe Firefly AI Image Gen? Not Impressed

    Tested Adobe Firefly image generation… and I’m not impressed at all. Pictures come out weird (and not good weird. Just awkward AI weird.)

  • Create Diagrams With ChatGPT + Kroki

    Kroki has a ChatGPT plugin which makes it super easy to create diagrams from any text within ChatGPT. Here are some of the types of visuals that are possible: Been playing around with this recently—it’s very cool.

  • Change These Chrome Settings If You Don’t Want To Be

    Chrome rolled out some new very aggressive ad tracking features in their latest in stall. Here’s how Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator, phrased it: And that’s basically all you need to know. Go to chrome://settings/adPrivacy and turn off the toggles on each of the three subpages. A bit more background: While Google is promoting…

  • The Korean Restaurant Boom Explained

    A lot of Korean restaurants suddenly opened up in the US recently. They took a page from the Thai tourism playbook. Thailand launched an initiative in 2002 that’s been termed gastrodiplomacy. TLDR: They supported Thai people who wanted to open Thai restaurants abroad with money and training. The thought was: If more people abroad like…

  • AVANT-GARDE: WHAT’S THAT?

    When something is ahead of its time, it’s avant-garde. Vincent van Gogh’s work was avant-garde. The “original” avant-garde was during the period of 1830 to 1939, but the term avant-garde is used to describe art today that’s daringly innovative, pushes boundaries, breaks the rules—and often rebells about the status quo. It’s not in line with…

  • WHY DO SOME PEOPLE HAVE A GOOD SENSE OF DIRECTION?

    I’m wondering what it is. Some people just seem to be naturally gifted navigators. They have a great sense of direction and orientation. They instinctively know how to find their way around. Others don’t. And it makes me wonder why that is. What are the contributing factors to a highly developed spacial navigation skills? I…