tldr

  • jay interviews van neistat for experience.computer and maps a route to tom sachs and adam savage
  • m meets anders sandberg and chaos magic comes up naturally
  • the group endures a will manidis essay and joe perfects a new impression
  • fred receives a clumsy catphish text about cmu mit research
  • word spots the neurips creative ai call and joe eyes it for the visual novel

the day

  • jay reveals his van neistat interview for experience.computer. he discusses his original dream guest list of tom sachs, adam savage, and pharrell. daniel kwan is confirmed for autumn. jay now wants to reach sachs and savage in under twenty episodes
  • fred shares a will manidis piece. m, joe, and robotson all roast it. joe debuts an impression: as a christian who is also rich. robotson notes that never reading anything keeps him permanently vindicated
  • m meets anders sandberg and tells him about his chaos magic ritual. larissa wants to know if they are officially friends now. robotson says his technocalyps viewings are vindicated
  • fred gets a text from pressella the pr consultant asking about a cmu mit paper on human ai teams. joe says yikes
  • robotson grinds a paper till midnight and gets approved as a ten hour volunteer for the acl conference in july. word asks if they need a typewriter poet and later shares the neurips call for creative ai
  • joe shares nan ransohoff’s substack on moral imagination and reiterates that wine dark needs a there there before applying for funding. says he needs to ship the visual novel first
  • jay shares a stolen data acknowledgement meme and mentions being asked to fill a mandatory land acknowledgement field for a short story submission as a non american