477: Honoring an encryption hero, ChatGPT's inner workings, and tasteful trash artSF is more expensive than I remember from only last year. Both sandwiches and Ubers are now almost $20! Must be the inflation. I bought a ticket to Austin for SXSW time next week on a whim. Will be there from the 15th-21st - you around? And I attended Peter Eckersley’s touching…
476: Objective DMT, Marx the class traitor, and muddy Green DayHello from back in California! Sheesh, it’s still winter here, isn’t it? Cold and rainy under the storm of the decade, I hear, and I can believe it. Still, good to be back. I attended a bestie’s wedding this weekend in Joshua Tree with a novel format: they had a
478: Austin, the GPT-4 CEO, and 30 feet of snowSkipped issue last week due to the craziness of SXSW in Austin. Was good to see the city again after the pandemic though. It’s changed drastically since I was last there in 2014. And so has SXSW - either I’m jaded or the event has degraded greatly towards corporate noise over…
475: Brazilian Carnival, Decolonizer coaches, and $500k / year with a newsletterLast week was Carnival in Brazil, and it was mental. Think many many thousands of people descending on the central areas of towns to pack the streets shoulder to shoulder with partying. Ostensibly from the same origin as Mardi Gras, to partake in excess before Christian lent.
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