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Wild Speculation Regarding the OpenAI Fiasco

First, I feel I need to make one thing clear: I'm nobody and have no special inside information. I'm just a random terminally-online guy who spends way too much time on Twitter and Hacker News. Like everyone else who fits that description, I've been…

Quitting while you're ahead

I often wonder, how many actors are there who quietly disappeared beacause they made a bunch of money from one lucky success? Hollywood, from the perspective of a layperson, is a lot like a lottery. You throw your chips in, by moving to LA, going to…

A Manifesto for the Metaverse

What is the Metaverse? Wired tried to figure it out recently and the results were inconclusive. Where is the metaverse? How do we log in to it? Nobody knows! But we kind of have an idea of what we think it should be. We read Snow Crash. Futurama…

Michael Keaton is Underappreciated

Two things. Michael Keaton starred in the film Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) in 2014. Three years later in 2017 he played The Vulture in Spiderman: Homecoming. That is, a literal Bird-Man. Do you expect me to believe that's a…

Fix a Pothole

The goal of media is to make every problem, your problem. — Naval Ravikant Today we hear about every problem around the world as it happens. We also have Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and countless other ways to voice our opinions and propose solutions…

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