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…

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

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…

“The metaverse is going to be far more pervasive and powerful than anything else.” - Tim Sweeney – Bengaluru Airport's T2 becomes first terminal in the world to offer a Metaverse experience. On Tuesday they announced the first phase launch of the 'BLR Metaport'. The airport will offer a 3D interface that will allow customers to interact with the airport …

"The future of collaboration is the metaverse" - Dave Waters – Aiming to educate organizations about the metaverse, The World Economic Forum has partnered with Accenture and Microsoft to launch a new metaverse platform ‘Global Collaboration Village.’

Welcome to this week’s episode of the All About The Metaverse podcast, presented by your co-hosts Chris Bruno and Alexis Nicosia. In this episode, we are joined by Gaurang Torvekar, CEO at Indorse and Co-Author of ERC-5606, the multiverse NFT standard

“The Metaverse is here, and it’s changing how we participate in the world, from the factory floor to the living room” - Satya Nadella, Microsoft Forbes is making its way to The Sandbox metaverse with a collaboration with Polygonal Mind. Users can expect an NFT showcase, quests, scavenger hunts, parties, and more.

Querido amigo; Hace poco comenzamos nuestro intercambio de ideas de forma mensual y hemos abordado nuestra propia y particular perspectiva sobre algunos temas, así que el día de hoy me gustaría, sin el afán de volver a incidir en demasía en los tópicos que hemos comentado, transmitirte una fábula que me ha hecho ver la vida con otra perspectiva.

As explained in my previous article, messages are weapons in 5th-generation warfare (5GW). And politicians jam their speeches full of destructive messages to attack their enemy — you. I recommend you read my previous article, "You are in the deadliest stages of a modern hybrid war. Here are the secrets of war

By MICHAEL WESTENDORF MIDLAND, Mich. — It started out as a loud chorus of parental voices in opposition to school district policies designed to battle COVID-19. However, after the arrests of a couple …

Social-media reaction to the “He Gets Us” ads airing on the Super Bowl yesterday — reaction that was almost entirely negative from both the sociopolitical right and the sociopolitical left — shows how much the rise of Christian nationalism has corrupted American Christianity.

Ask a politically conservative Christian how she applies her faith to politics, and she may answer that she votes for Republicans because she is opposed to abortion and in favor of religious freedom. Ask a politically liberal Christian how he applies his faith to politics, and he may answer that …