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NotebookLM: Newly Magical And Actually Useful

NotebookLM is the most interesting consumer AI product currently available, period, full stop. Don’t look away. This is not just for nerds. NotebookLM is also potentially the most useful AI assistant for you - yes, I’m looking at you, you special snowflake. It is...

Libby, Libraries, And The Shocking Cost Of Ebook Licenses

You can read almost any book in print for free, new or old, using an app named Libby. It’s legal! In fact, it’s encouraged. Maybe I’m not telling you anything new. Lots of people use Libby. If you know, you know. But if you aren’t familiar with Libby, this might rock...

Emus And Piracy: The Story Behind The Lord Of The Rings

The painting on the cover of the first US paperback edition of The Hobbit has a lion, a fruit tree, and a pair of emus. There are no lions in The Hobbit. There are no fruit trees or emus. J.R.R. Tolkien was baffled. He wrote to the publisher, “Where is this place? Why...

More Than Half Of All Internet Traffic Is Not Human

Humans are no longer the dominant force on the internet. Automated bots make up more than half of global internet traffic. Your instinct is that human beings visit websites and send email. That’s outdated. Bot activity surpassed human-generated activity for the first...

AI And The Future Of The Internet

The internet is splintering into pieces. This will seem like an unhappy story because I have to explain what’s happening and why and it’s kind of sad. But there’s a happy ending! I have a dream about the way a curated web will emerge. There are products coming to make...