Month: June 2023

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Time To Say Goodbye - A.I. scab-bot$, with Max Read

Hello from Montréal! 

🥳 Reminder: Join us THIS SATURDAY, June 10th, in Brooklyn, for our subscriber picnic! Subscribe on Patreon or Substack for more details. 

This week, we welcome back our friend Max Read—dad, Twitter lurker, hat seller, and creator of the incredible Read Max newsletter—for an anniversary chat. (12:30) We speculate about the next phase of A.I. ascendancy and (28:25) large language model pioneers, and (44:00) unpack the labor dimensions of these technological shifts. Speaking of labor, (45:30) we get Max’s inside perspective on the WGA strike (in which, again, A.I. …) and express solidarity with the Insider journalists who just went on strike for a fair contract! 

In this episode, we ask: 

Will the next generation be expected to know how to write? 

Who will ChatGPT threaten to (awkwardly, inadequately, terrifyingly) replace? 

Is A.I. doing to writing what earlier technologies did to the music industry? Are we getting schooled in notions of collective authorship? 

For more, see: 

* Max’s newsletters on the WGA strike and A.I.: 

* Why I'm on strike

* I cannot believe the s**t that morons are getting up to with ChatGPT

* Yet more of what I'm reading about A.I., a great mixed-reality TV show, and a great new music newsletter

* His previous TTSG appearances! 

* Crypto fraudsters with Max Read

* TTSG disinformation campaign with Max Read 

* John Herrman’s New York piece about Google’s in-search generative A.I. experiment

* Our last episode about A.I., in which Ben Recht gets skeptical: What can’t A.I. replace

Thanks for listening! Keep in touch via Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter, and email us at timetosaygoodbyepod@gmail.com.



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60 Songs That Explain the '90s - “If It Makes You Happy”—Sheryl Crow

Rob is back to share the 10 worst songs he performed during his college open-mic-night phase, as he dives into Sheryl Crow’s “If It Makes You Happy.” Later, Rob is joined by 'Baltimore Banner' columnist Leslie Gray Streeter to discuss Sheryl Crow’s career and the mistreatment of women music stars by the media (53:00).

Host: Rob Harvilla

Guest: Leslie Gray Streeter

Producers: Jonathan Kermah and Justin Sayles

Additional Production Support: Chloe Clark

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Not born yesterday: the world’s ageing population

Fertility rates are falling to worrying levels, and an older, smaller, global population is bad news for economic growth. Apple’s new headset could revolutionise the virtual reality world, but only if it sells. And, despite being in decline for decades, the tide is turning for Britain’s seaside towns. 


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The Best One Yet - ⛳️ “Just tap it in” — Golf’s money marriage. Vita Coco’s coconut surge. Coinbase’s big lawsuit.

The PGA Tour is merging with LIV Golf, because those Saudi pockets are just too deep. 

A top-performing IPO from 2021? It’s Vita Coco — The stock has doubled because coconut water is in 10% of American fridges. 

Coinbase’s stock fell 20% the past 2 days because it’s trying to obey the laws of crypto… but there are no laws of crypto.

$COCO $COIN $BTC

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Money Girl - What Happens If You Over-Contribute to a Retirement Account?

Laura answers a listener’s question about contributing too much to a 401(k) and reviews contribution limits for various accounts, how to correct overpayments, and avoid penalties.

Money Girl is hosted by Laura Adams. A transcript is available at Simplecast.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 6.7.23

Alabama

  • Governor Ivey signs anti-ESG bill into law
  • State lawmakers to send resolution to DC re: Space Command in Huntsville
  • AL to get 1.4 million in settlement with drug makers of Suboxone
  • Peruvian judge sets extradition date for Thursday of Joran Van Der Sloot
  • Millbrook city council votes for one cent sales tax increase 
  • Charges dropped for Madison man re: Jan 6 2021 events in DC

National

  • Appeals court strikes down law prohibiting guns for non violent offenders
  • Oversight chairman talks about FBI contempt hearings for this Thursday 
  • Arkansas judge now threatening jail time for Hunter Biden for noncompliance
  • CA state law on race/gender quotas for corporate boards, struck down
  • Group of Covid 19 vaccine injured people launch lawsuit against Biden
  • VP Harris visited this week with son to George Soros, won't say why
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Bell Labs (Encore)

What do lasers, photovoltaic cells, the transistor, digital cameras, cell phone technology, the communication satellite, computer networking, radio astronomy, and the UNIX operating system have in common?

They were all invented or developed at the same place by the greatest collection of scientists and engineers ever assembled.

Learn more about Bell Labs, the greatest research laboratory in history, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. 


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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Lib Dem ambulance claims, affordable rent and goat meat

The Liberal Democrats say 120 people a day in England died last year whilst waiting for an ambulance. We investigate whether the claim stands up to scrutiny. Also Rishi Sunak's pandemic-era scheme Eat Out To Help Out is back in the spotlight. How much did it really contribute to a second wave of infections? We look at a claim that no single woman in England on an average salary can afford to rent a home of her own. And Jonathan Agnew said on Test Match Special that goat is the most eaten meat in the world. Is he right?

Presenter: Tim Harford Series Producer: Jon Bithrey Reporters: Jo Casserly, Nathan Gower Editor: Richard Vadon Sound Engineer: James Beard Production Co-ordinator: Brenda Brown

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NBN Book of the Day - Robin James, “The Future of Rock and Roll: 97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence” (UNC Press, 2023)

In 1983, an Ohio radio station called WOXY launched a sonic disruption to both corporate rock and to its conservative home region, programming an omnivorous range of genres and artists while being staunchly committed to local independent art and media. In the 1990s, as alternative rock went mainstream and radio grew increasingly homogeneous, WOXY gained international renown as one of Rolling Stone's "Last Great Independent Radio" stations. The station projected a philosophy that prioritized such independence--the idea that truly progressive, transgressive, futuristic disruptions of the status quo were possible only when practiced with and for other people.

In The Future of Rock and Roll: 97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence (UNC Press, 2023), philosopher Robin James uses WOXY's story to argue against a corporate vision of independence--in which everyone fends for themselves--and in favor of an alternative way of thinking and relating to one another that disrupts norms but is nevertheless supported by communities. Against the standard retelling of the history of "modern rock," James looks to the local scenes that made true independence possible by freeing individual artists from the whims of the boardroom. This philosophy of community-rooted independence offers both a counternarrative to the orthodox history of indie rock and an alternative worldview to that of the current corporate mainstream.

Robin James is a writer, editor, and philosopher. She is the author of four books including Resilience & Melancholy and The Sonic Episteme. Robin on Twitter.

Bradley Morgan is a media arts professional in Chicago and author of U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America. He manages partnerships on behalf of CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM, serves as a co-chair of the associate board at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and volunteers in the music archive at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Bradley Morgan on Twitter.

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