Well, folks, I promised you I’d be working on interviews on Things of Internet this year. And what a fine way to start this will be. Utsav Mamoria is a dear friend who runs a short-format travel podcast called Postcards from Nowhere. It’s a travel podcast but rather than give influencer-style clickbait about places to visit, Utsav encourages you to slow …

Welcome to BIG, a newsletter on the politics of monopoly power. If you’d like to sign up to receive issues over email, you can do so here. Google just lost its first antitrust trial, as a San Francisco jury returned a decision that Google harmed rival Epic Games, maker of the popular video game Fortnite, in the $48 billion dollar app store Android market…

As formerly (thankfully!) striking writers justifiably emphasized, AI is transforming Hollywood. It already has. The major streaming services have long used artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance overall viewing experiences, accelerating cord cutting – and fundamentally transforming Hollywood economics - in the …

Next Week in The Sequence: Edge 329: The second installment of our series about fine-tuning covers the different types of fine-tuning methods, MIT’s research around multi-task prompt tuning and the Lamini platform. Edge 330: We discuss DSPy, a new language model programming framework that represents an alternative to LangChain an…

I have just got back from an epic month of travelling. I have been to Trinec in the Czech Republic twice, flying into Katovice and then Krakow airports, and then driving two hours. Its the first t…

Members, Just a quick tactical note. This will be informal and concise. About 2 Months ago during the SVB crisis back in March, I found opportunities to help our folks here to take advantage of tactical disloc…

We took part in a quick rapid fire interview with Larry Cheung, CFA covering AI, geopolitics, financial markets, and other areas we frequently speak about. Larry Cheung is a CFA Charterholder, professional Investment Strategist, and the Author of one of Substack's most popular finance newsletters called "Letters from Larry: U.S. & China Investment Strategy." In this ne…

The Best Buy PS5 restock date and time in July 2022 will come to you via my PS5 restock Twitter tracker – follow and turn on notifications. That’s because I’m now tracking where and when the PlayStation 5 is in stock at retailers in the US, including Best Buy, where there has been a PS5 restock nationwide once in July. Now that demand for the Sony cons…

Some of you have been dying for Pittsburgh Steelers content (okay really just one of you) but I didn’t feel the need to write about them. Until now. The Steelers took on the Washington Football Team on Monday afternoon in a game that was postponed because of the Steelers-Ravens game postponement the week before. Pittsburgh entered Monday’s game 11-0 whi…

Welcome to the In The Chips with Barry previews email for the week of 12/7. Let’s get in the chips, shall we? Arnott’s Shapes Variety Pack Yes, sent all the way from Australia by the good folks at Treats From Oz, it’s a snack called “Shapes.” I’m not going to lie, that is not the most imaginative name but then again I don’t taste the name so we’ll leave i…

This evening’s announcement that the Transition is officially commencing comes as the anxious denizens of the nation’s capital are scouring the roster of the Biden-Harris “agency review teams” to see if our friends and frenemies made it onto these august bodies. But what do “ARTs” actually do?

over the past few months, i’ve been having a conversation—mostly with myself—about spiciness. i’m not really looking for an answer. in Jamaican cuisine, your meal’s heat is overstated. for the uninitiated, a chicken that’s truly been jerked can taste incendiary, or life-changing, even—at least for a little while. my parents used to throw a lot of parties…

What’s better than having all of the most up-to-date sports news and live scores? Getting the fakest news that truly has nothing to do with anything, really. Game on!

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Happy Mother’s Day to all of the beautiful mommy’s and mommy’s to be. In light of today, book club will be postponed this evening to next week. I hope you all enjoy your Sunday! Love, AuJene’ x

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As someone who has been fascinated with technology and its impact on society for many years, I have always been interested in exploring the evolution of technology and how it has shaped the way we live, work and play. With this book, I take a deep dive into the history of the personal computer and how it has paved the way for the current exciting develo…

PTSD Pup© By Joseph P Dougan Eventually, though there are thirteen or more chapters in my Vietnam Life as an RLO stories, I will ultimately run out of wartime thoughts. I will get the June chapter out next week. In the meantime, writing is my form of entertainment. I ran across this story I posted last year that needs to be included in my subStack accou…

OMG! They Still Make Good Kids© By Joseph P Dougan The following story is a local human interest. I had posted it on a couple of closed neighborhood sites. The stories can’t be forwarded without a lot of copy&paste. I had a couple of requests to make the story more widely available, so I am putting on my substack site. I think you will like it.

Grieving the loss of a loved one who has died by suicide is a lonely experience. My family had all but erased my Uncle Benny after his death. Maybe we feared talking about his life would inevitably get us talking about the way he passed, and the pain of that felt like too much. So when I encountered my uncle during my psilocybin trip, it felt like one o…

I’ve been following the ChatGPT brouhaha with some amusement. I’ve tried it out a bit, and the smooth plausibility of its language is undoubtedly impressive. But my overall conclusion was that the only people it might put out of business are New York Times editorial writers. In other words, the artificial intelligence is good at things that don’t requir…

Had an illuminating conversation recently with a semi-fictional friend of mine, or perhaps I should say a former friend. I’ve sensed a certain coldness and distance for some time now, which has wounded and puzzled me. But purely by chance – long story -- an opportunity offered to ask about it.

I recently had occasion to rent a late-model car. I don’t like cars, and I don’t approve of them, but if you live in the US, this is sometimes the only way to get around. This car was quite nice in many ways. It would let me know if I was wandering out of my lane, for example, a thing which old and inattentive drivers have been known to do.