Tooling

Artist and design professor Rob Ray shares his favorite tools, including a Panasonic cassette recorder, Hagoromo Fulltouch Chalk, and the Metatext app. via Cool Tools

Tyler Cowen and Sam Bankman-Fried discuss stablecoin regulation, leverage in DeFi, and the role of memes in asset pricing.

Matt Webb of Interconnected is experimenting with a clickable mind-map to better organize his blog's archive of past posts. via Interconnected

This Cool Tools Recomendo features an interactive map of Anthony Bourdain's travels, plus recommendations for a standup special and a sci-fi horror novel. via Cool Tools

Matt Webb thinks online shopping could be more experiential, like visiting a physical store, and imagines a future of personalized online storefronts integrated into social media profiles. via The source of this content is the blog "1,000 shops in your pocket (Interconnected)".

This webcomic includes romance, sarcasm, math, and language. via xkcd.

ReserveBar is launching on-demand delivery for its premium spirits and gifts after acquiring Minibar Delivery. via Modern Retail.

Alex Tabarrok discusses AI deepfakes and their potential applications, such as creating synthetic video content and impacting online communication. via Marginal REVOLUTION.

Andy Baio explores the ethical implications of AI image generation, including copyright infringement and the potential impact on artists. via @waxpan

Stability AI publicly released Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image AI model, under a Creative ML OpenRAIL-M license. They are planning future releases with additional features, optimizations, and tools to enhance the model's positive impact.

Games for Grown Ups is a new game recommendation featured on the design blog swissmiss, run by Tina Roth Eisenberg, who also runs TeuxDeux, CreativeMornings, and the coworking space Friends Work Here. via swissmiss