Encounter #115: Bottomology

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Hitty Titty Pond, Tijuana salsa, and low hanging fruit. Executive producer: serpent Show NotesMiniDisc - Wikipedia Magneto-optical drive - Wikipedia We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business – Eye on Design Floppy disks Hitty Titty Pond – Windham NH History The Maine lake full of sunken steamboats - BBC Travel Why There Is A Fight Over The Potatoes Used To Make Lay's Chips Official website of Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Authority, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers WelfareThe Indian plant IP rights organization. Pussy flavour Potato chips CHAZZBecause vagina is the chip flavour we've all been missing. The world's first trombone rhythm game is instantly a GOTY contender | PC Gamer The Decipherment of Linear Elamite Writing and a Curious Way of Doing  Journalism: A Rejoinder to Andrew Lawler and the Smithsonian Magazine – A Guest Post by Gianni Marchesi | Zwinglius Redivivus Have Scholars Finally Deciphered Linear Elamite, a Mysterious Ancient Script? | History| Smithsonian MagazineThe article in question. John Carmack on TwitterThe AI image generation explosion in recent months is delightful to watch from an ecosystem anthropology point of view as well as for the actual content. You have Google with conventional pure research, OpenAI conservatively building APIs, Midjourney doing the scrappy startup play, and then Stable Diffusion dropping a completely open source bombshell. I suspect OpenAI, with all their lavish funding and priority tensions, will have a hard time competing with the more agile efforts at a business level.

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