April 15, 2023

597: Annoyingly Well-Informed

597: Annoyingly Well-Informed

The MoviePass Titanic; real-world costs of crypto & generative AI; Tesla class-action lawsuit; Twitter is now X Corp., NPR & PBS leave; cold culture war has gone hot; Scotland's driverless busses; NASA launches new pollution tracker, gets new director; Google's Bard to bring transparency to their black box; Twitter Circles are broken; Iceberg Slim; I'll Sleep When I'm Dead; Succession; Picard; Bye, HBO, you're now MAX: Star Wars news; Skate Punk; playlists aka mix-tapes; YouTube Premium perks; weather apps suck; Schmigadoon!; the Mandalorian; PayPal scam; don't login to company assets after leaving the company; Layoffs.FYI; OpenAI bug bounties; Juice Jacking is crap; cutting the cord, but what about baseball?

The MoviePass Titanic; real-world costs of crypto & generative AI; Tesla class-action lawsuit; Twitter is now X Corp., NPR & PBS leave; cold culture war has gone hot; Scotland's driverless busses; NASA launches new pollution tracker, gets new director; Google's Bard to bring transparency to their black box; Twitter Circles are broken; Iceberg Slim; I'll Sleep When I'm Dead; Succession; Picard; Bye, HBO, you're now MAX: Star Wars news; Skate Punk; playlists aka mix-tapes; YouTube Premium perks; weather apps suck; Schmigadoon!; the Mandalorian; PayPal scam; don't login to company assets after leaving the company; Layoffs.FYI; OpenAI bug bounties; Juice Jacking is crap; cutting the cord, but what about baseball?

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FOLLOW UP

Everything You Should Know About the New MoviePass

The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin

The mounting human and environmental costs of generative AI

Tesla slammed with class-action lawsuit following report that employees internally shared private photos and videos taken from car cameras

Twitter Isn’t a Company Anymore

Twitter Reverses NPR Label, Tweaks to ‘Government Funded Media’

NPR is ditching Twitter over 'government-funded media' label on its main account

PBS has also quit Twitter over its 'government-funded media' label

Elizabeth Holmes Will Have to Wait Out Her Appeal in Prison

Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee — tech exec’s alleged killer also worked in tech

Who is Nima Momeni, alleged killer of Cash App founder Bob Lee?


IN THE NEWS

Driverless bus service to start in Scotland in 'world first'

NASA launches powerful air quality monitor to keep an eagle-eye on pollution

NEW NASA GODDARD DIRECTOR EXPLAINS WHY SHE WAS SWORN IN ON A CARL SAGAN BOOK

Google Bard's new 'experiment updates' page lets you know what's new

Vimeo to pay $2.25M in AI-related biometric privacy lawsuit

Twitter Circles Is Broken, Revealing Nudes Not Meant For The General Public

Elon Musk is moving forward with a new generative-AI project at Twitter after purchasing thousands of GPUs

FTC fines supplement maker $600,000 for 'review hijacking' Amazon listings


MEDIA CANDY

The Labours Of Hercule - The Adventure Of The Cheap Flat

Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp

I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead

Perry Mason Season 2

'The Americans' cast celebrate show's 10th anniversary

Succession

How Brian Cox Felt About That Big Episode 3 Twist in ‘Succession’

HBO’s Succession Podcast

Sure, 'Max' sounds dumb, but HBO Max needed a reboot

Picard

For the first time, you can now watch every Star Trek movie in 4K HDR

'Star Wars: The Bad Batch' is getting a third, and final, season

Disney is bringing ‘Star Wars: Return of the Jedi’ back to theaters on April 28th

Honest Trailers | Avatar: The Way of Water

The Continental: From the World of John Wick | Official Teaser | Peacock Original

The Ongoing History of New Music Podcast by Alan Cross - History of Skate Punk


APPS & DOODADS

YouTube Premium adds more perks with SharePlay support, higher quality video and more

Spotify is shutting down Heardle, the Wordle-like music guessing game it bought last year

The Problem With Weather Apps

Awesome Screenshot

Stable Diffusion

What Kind of Mind Does ChatGPT Have? by Cal Newport

Finalmouse Centerpiece Keyboard Reveal

FINALMOUSE CENTERPIECE KEYBOARD


AT THE LIBRARY

Make Something Wonderful - Steve Jobs in his own words

Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen by Greg Jenner


THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

Schmigadoon!

10% log back in to 'disrupt' business, report

Layoffs.FYI

Announcing OpenAI’s Bug Bounty Program

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