 Welcome back! Time for a filter pass...
Dave Winer: ChatGPT clearly has a place. As a sidekick for coding... 
 Can't disagree.
An oldie but goodie: The Oatmeal: Believe. I wonder if ChatGPT and it's brethren can digest this yet?
John Battelle: As AI moves in, let's not forget why we like people. "My first take on Amazon Go is this: F*cking A, do we really want eggplants and cuts of meat reduced to parameterized choices spit onto algorithmized shelves?"
Elon Musk: What we need is TruthGPT.
 Steven Wolfram: What is ChatGPT doing ... and why does it work? A long explanation, but the best I've read. Two takeaways: as with all AI models, the training data is critical, and the randomization leads to unexpected results. This is the good and the bad of them.
 A reminder from Jamie Zawinsky. We are now closer to the Y2038 "bug" than we are to Y2K. In which the *nix systems' internal 32-bit time rolls over to zero.
 Oh my: The Maserati GranTurismo Is An Unexpected Shock Of Lightning. Wow, might be my next car :)
I've mentally flirted with the Lucid Air but while their hardware is amazing their software is well behind Tesla. With the Maser ... who cares :)
Apropos: Tesla has fully overtaken BMW for US luxury crown. Who woulda thought? At first slower, then faster, then wow it happened.
Also this: Tesla recalls 362,758 vehicles over FSD software safety concerns. Alternative headline: Tesla pushes software update to 362,758 vehicles to improve safety. Sheesh.
 Leonardo da Vinci's surprisingly accurate experiments with gravity. The recognition that gravity's effect is an acceleration seems profound.
No! WSJ: To increase equity, school districts eliminate honors classes. Unbelievable. Will they also eliminate basketball teams?
Don Surber: Fetterman Nation. I link, you read, but quite a bit of this is beyond parody.
Finally - and you knew I couldn't make a filter pass without crypto - a look at Bitcoin's five maintainers. In the long run the project structure of Bitcoin might end up being more interesting than the tech.
 Charlie Munger: sometimes I call it crypto crap.
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