634: How the Sausage is Sequenced
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634: How the Sausage is Sequenced

AI Carlin was people; FTX not coming back; Neuralink implants a human; Yaccarino invents a new company; Senate hearing on online child exploitation; Universal pulls its music from TikTok; music piracy is back; Comcast forced to drop misleading 10G Network claim; 23andMe almost worthless now; FCC takes on AI-generated robocalls; Musk's bad week, Tesla sued, Musk loses case, voted most overrated CEO, SpaceX sued; Monarch: Legacy of Monsters; Eugene Levy; SiriusXM vastly overpays for SmartLess; Hulu cracks down on password sharing; Masters of the Air; Monsieur Spade; Star Trek ghost sex; Apple Vision Pro; Snap drone fireballs; AI & blockchain bullcrap; This Book May Save Your Life; Daily Laws & Daily Stoic.


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FOLLOW UP

That AI-generated George Carlin comedy special was written by humans

Study finds that once people use cargo bikes, they like their cars much less


IN THE NEWS

Thank God FTX Won't Be Coming Back

Elon Musk Says Neuralink Has Implanted Its Chip in a Human for the First Time

X CEO Linda Yaccarino claims company has 90M US users, less than 1% are teens

Senate tells social media CEOs they have ‘blood on their hands

Universal Music Group Warns It Will Pull Songs From TikTok After Deal Expiration

TikTok Is Thrown Into Disarray As Music From Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande Disappears

Music Piracy Is Back in a Big Way—Especially From YouTube

Comcast reluctantly agrees to stop its misleading “10G Network” claims

23ANDME HAS LOST BILLIONS, ALMOST WORTHLESS NOW

FCC moves to outlaw AI-generated robocalls

iRobot and Amazon call it quits, terminate acquisition agreement

Tesla sued by 25 California counties for allegedly mishandling hazardous waste

HEAVY METAL DRUMMER COST ELON MUSK $55.8 BILLION

Tesla Lawyer Cried at a Deposition Because He Loves Elon So Much

ELON MUSK VOTED "MOST OVERRATED CEO" BY HIS COLLEAGUES

SpaceX sued for negligence in accident that led to worker's coma


MEDIA CANDY

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

The Reluctant Traveler with Eugene Levy

SmartLess Podcast Moves to SiriusXM in Exclusive $100 Million Deal

Hulu is the latest streaming service to crack down on password sharing

Masters of the Air

Monsieur Spade

22 Years Later, Cillian Murphy Might Return for 28 Years Later

30 Years on, TNG's Ghost Sex Episode Remains as Unhinged and Awful as Ever

Wilson Bethel's Bullseye Returning for Daredevil: Born Again (Exclusive)

Richard Prince to Pay Photographers Over $650,000 In Copyright Lawsuits


APPS & DOODADS

Apple Has Sold Approximately 200,000 Vision Pro Headsets

Apple says the EU accounts for just 7% of its global App Store revenue

Snap Recalls All of Its Selfie Drones Due to Fears They'll Become Flying Fireballs

Sam Altman Says GPT-5 Will Be ‘Okay’

How AI Works

How AI Doesn't Work

The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications

Pivot: Deepfake Regulation, Media Layoffs, and Guest Chris Dixon

Read, Write, Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet by Chris Dixon


AT THE LIBRARY

This Book May Save Your Life: Everyday Health Hacks to Worry Less and Live Better by Karan Rajan

The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy, and Human Nature by Robert Greene

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman

The stoics and the Sex Pistols: Philosophical roots of punk rebellion go back to ancient Greece

Itchy by Teresa McNulty

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