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Themes appearing throughout technology and culture.

Ancient Roman myths and AI girlfriends
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Ancient Roman myths and AI girlfriends

Apps like Replika and Character.AI are continuing a 2,000-year-old trend of artificial companionship.

13 min read — Jan 7, 2024
What happened to CNET?
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What happened to CNET?

It’s still the same website... but it’s not the same website.

12 min read — Dec 14, 2023
After AI Drake songs, nothing was the same
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After AI Drake songs, nothing was the same

Record labels are cracking down on AI generated music.

11 min read — Apr 23, 2023
AI memes are going mainstream
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AI memes are going mainstream

AI generated “by Balenciaga” videos are taking the internet by storm — so I made one myself. Let’s see Paul Allen’s meme.

14 min read — Apr 9, 2023
Sydney, Spotify, and Speedy
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Sydney, Spotify, and Speedy

Comparing three very different interpretations of artificial intelligence.

12 min read — Mar 12, 2023
People are using AI to imagine movies that were never made
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People are using AI to imagine movies that were never made

What would happen if Alejandro Jodorowsky made ‘Tron’?

3 min read — Jan 16, 2023
Indistinguishable from magic
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Indistinguishable from magic

Magic is a fun and pragmatic lens for understanding generative AI — cast a spell and conjure content.

8 min read — Jan 15, 2023
Say goodbye to robotic computer voices
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Say goodbye to robotic computer voices

The latest text-to-speech model from Eleven Labs can convincingly imitate emotions in speech — including laughter.

2 min read — Dec 30, 2022
An AI generated these portraits of me
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An AI generated these portraits of me

The photo editor app Lensa dropped an AI selfie generator, and the results are truly impressive. But there’s a dark side.

6 min read — Dec 24, 2022
OpenAI invested $100mm in these four startups. Why?
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OpenAI invested $100mm in these four startups. Why?

What Descript, Harvey, Mem, and Speak each mean for OpenAI’s vision of the future of AI.

8 min read — Dec 15, 2022
Thinking about thinking
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Thinking about thinking

How can computers help us be better at remembering things — without having to wear a camera on our face?

8 min read — Feb 20, 2022
Typetura is typesetting for the 21st century
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Typetura is typesetting for the 21st century

A primer on the future of typography, typesetting, and why details matter.

16 min read — Aug 13, 2021
On Mirror, digital publishing meets cryptocurrency
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On Mirror, digital publishing meets cryptocurrency

This invitation-only, blockchain-based publishing platform is enabling new business models for writers by giving power to the people.

8 min read — May 19, 2021
Get paid for seeing ads with Basic Attention Token
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Get paid for seeing ads with Basic Attention Token

Basic Attention Token is a cryptocurrency that's about more than just about the money — it's also about where the money goes.

14 min read — May 6, 2021
How I roll my own custom newsfeed with Feedbin
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How I roll my own custom newsfeed with Feedbin

Email newsletters are experiencing a renaissance in 2021, but there's one problem: I don't like email! So I use Feedbin, which lets me read email newsletters in RSS reading apps.

5 min read — Apr 29, 2021
Everything Chrome can do, Brave can do better
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Everything Chrome can do, Brave can do better

Brave makes surfing the internet fun again. It's time to ditch Google Chrome.

6 min read — Mar 18, 2021
NFTs are Redefining the Internet's Idea of Art and Value
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NFTs are Redefining the Internet's Idea of Art and Value

Art was seemingly left behind during the internet revolution — but Non-Fungible Tokens are here to change that. What Bitcoin is to currency, NFTs are for collecting.

12 min read — Feb 10, 2021

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