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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close May 10 – May 17, 2023 187 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 20 · Issue 137 Get it by email ↓
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Vice files for Bankruptcy

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Business 9 stories

  1. Vice files for Bankruptcy

  2. Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter

  3. Mormon whistleblower says his church is a “clandestine hedge fund”

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  1. Majority of gig economy workers are earning below minimum wage: research

  2. IRS files $44B claims against bankrupt FTX

  3. FUTO – An independent software lab and grant fund

  4. Companies to pay $615k in investigation over faked net neutrality comments

Sports 17 stories

  1. When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think

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  1. 100K Context Windows

  2. Three Companies Impersonated Millions to Influence Internet Policy

  3. Morris Tanenbaum, inventor of the silicon transistor, has died

Technology 150 stories

  1. GitHub Copilot Leaked Prompt

  2. Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI

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  1. IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax prep giants

  2. JPMorgan Chase and Co tracks employees to dystopian extents

  3. Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease

  4. Pixpaint

  5. YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

Entertainment 6 stories

  1. Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news

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  1. Show HN: Willow – Open-source privacy-focused voice assistant hardware

  2. Artists must be allowed to make bad work

  3. Turn ideas into music with MusicLM

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