Alexander Klöpping

"Dad books" — which this article, and some publishing insiders, use to describe "serious nonfiction" books across biography, current affairs and business and economics — are reportedly in a free fall, with sales declining every year for the last few years “The trend couldn’t be clearer,” said Jonathan Karp, the former chief executive of Simon & Schuster and publisher of the new Simon Six imprint. “When we have internal meetings to talk about this problem, it always comes around to podcasts,” said Jonathan Burnham, president and publisher of the Harper Group at HarperCollins Publishers.

Unitree Unveils: GD01, A Manned Transformable Mecha, from $650,000 👏 The world's first production-ready manned mecha. It can transform. It's a civilian vehicle. It weighs ~500kg with you inside. Please everyone be sure to use the robot in a Friendly and Safe manner.

"There are three levels of story for a company. The first level is just literally: what are you even doing? Half of startup founders probably can't even articulate just that. Level two is: what does that represent? What is the upshot of you doing this successfully? Level three is: what is the shape of the dent in the universe and in society, if this works? For SpaceX, level one might be: we're building a rocket. Pretty cool, not maximum cool. Level two is: we're building a rocket to restore American space flight from the private sector to revive an industry that's been stagnant for decades. More inspiring, not final form. Level three would be: we're restoring space flight from America, humanity's last best hope, because we need to make mankind an interplanetary species."

Sam Altman texts Mira Murati November 19, 2023

May 1st celebration in Chongqing. Drone Swarm returning to nest after performing. This is something to behold.

Hoe erg is het in de rest van de wereld dan wel niet

Drone warfare has reached such a level that many fighters have lost hope of escaping or resisting. For example, the final strike on the barracks is terrifying.

ChatGPT Images 2.0 (Pro) generates a photo of a cake decorated with SVG that when transcribed to a file renders another cake

Addiction to short-form videos is associated with reduction of brain activity in the frontal lobe and weakened focus.