The Independent Variable
Kevin Humdrum
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theneedling.comCould you imagine how sad it would be if a foreign terrorist destroyed or ended your life instead of domestic one? Not on our watch.Would be funny if it weren't so true.
motherjones.com7 years of free school lunches. 3 years of Medicare dental coverage. 2,000 Trump heads on Mt. Rushmore.This is the argument I and others have been making for years. These war mongers don't blink an eye at spending billions on killing people, but when it comes to trying to help people who could use it...
techcrunch.comSuch a shift could represent a solid revenue driver for Apple. Google has included ads in its navigation app for years, and Bing Maps also offers a similar advertising capacity to local business owners.Apple should use all that cash to take themselves private. Seriously, come on. Y’all did it, you made...
theverge.comFridman, the podcast’s host, defines AGI as an AI system that’s able to “essentially do your job,” as in start, grow, and run a successful tech company worth more than $1 billion.“Essentially” is doing a whole lot of work in that definition. No matter what the definition, a real AGI would be smart enough...
nytimes.comIn an email to The Times late on Thursday night, Ballard denied using A.I. to write “Shy Girl,” contending that an acquaintance she hired to edit the self-published version of the novel had used A.I.On the one hand, I love that publishers are taking a stand against AI. On the other, I’m increasingly...
youtube.comHonora by Flea is my most anticipated album of the year and it comes out this Friday. He and his band absolutely kill it during this performance. I need more of this in my life and hope he gets to do a Tiny Desk concert based on this album.
worldofreel.comNetflix executives reportedly “laughed off” the idea that they require movies and TV shows to repeatedly recap their plots for audiences.If I were a betting man, I would wager a lot of money that either a) the executives are lying or b) it’s a case of things lost in translation in a giant company...
worldofreel.comNo word on whether he will actually get credited for the rewrite, but he definitely did extensive work, and this was, according to Sneider, at the request of DiCaprio.I didn’t love Killers of the Flower Moon and after hearing PTA did extensive rewrites on it, I felt like I could see the seam a bit. I...
aftermath.siteAs does Jensen Huang's commitment to looking like a huge dork.I can’t help but absolutely love the compare and contrast here. It does amaze me that these billionaires like Huang and Musk don’t pay someone to dress them. Although they probably think no one could possibly make a better decision than them.
m.youtube.comMartin McDonagh has been on a (slow) heater as of late and now he gets to work with a fine cast in John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits, and Parker Posey.
thehtml.reviewthe html review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the webHaven’t gotten to it yet myself, but The HTML Review is always wonderful and always a huge inspiration for how we can do publishing different on this thing we call the interwebs.
comicsbeat.comAnouk Ricard's celebrated graphic novel, Animan, is a clever sort of anti-superhero parody that is always working toward the next joke.It's honestly been awhile since I've read some comics given I'm behind in basically ever aspect of my life, but this is going to the top of the to-buy list for me.
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