2025.05.22: Life In The Uncanny Valley

Burnie and Ashley very safely discuss the Tush Push vote, Wes Anderson’s Cannes booing, Gene Hackman, AI reading lists, Shakira super spreader events, email blunders, Burnie’s old business card, the US Dollar’s decline, BTC ATH, Google I/O, and many threads coming together.
  
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City of Brotherly Shove

• Proposal to ban tush push in NFL fails by two votes, sources say – ESPN
• Why the tush push, or Brotherly Shove, still belongs in the NFL – The Athletic

Wes Anderson

• Wes Anderson gets booed at Cannes
• ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ Cannes Premiere: Wes Anderson Gets Big Ovation
• The Wes Anderson AI artbot craze is a fun trend with big ethical issues | Polygon
• What if Wes Anderson Directed X-Men?
• Wes Anderson Says Gene Hackman Feud Was Over ‘Royal Tenenbaums’ Pay

Measles in New Jersey

• Officials warn of potential measles exposure at Shakira concert at MetLife Stadium
• Measles Vaccination | Measles (Rubeola) | CDC
• ‘Immunity can wear off over time’: Doctors highlight undervaccination in adults | CBC News
• The basic reproduction number (R0) of measles: a systematic review – PubMed

Burnie’s Card

• an old telephone thing that’s just lost to time : r/morningsomewhere

Lackluster Performance

• Treasury’s $16 billion auction of 20-year notes is met with lackluster demand – MarketWatch
• Tepid demand for US Treasury auction shows investor jitters about tax bill, deficit | Reuters
• Bitcoin Price Breaks Record All Time High With Surge Above $109,000
• U.S. dollar weakening could force central banks to devalue currencies
• US dollar slides on budget bill concerns, weak 20-year bond auction
• New all-time high: Bitcoin passes the 110,000 US dollar mark for the first time | heise online

AI Summer Reading List

• AI-generated summer reading list gets published in major newspapers : NPR

Private Profit

• Elon Musk Predicts A ‘Universal High Income’ As Jobs Are Phased Out And Employment Becomes Obsolete — It’ll Be ‘Somewhat Of An Equalizer’
• Kekius Maximus on X: “@Jack_Frodo Universal income will be necessary over time if AI takes over most human jobs” / X

AI Generated Videos

• Introducing Flow: Google’s AI filmmaking tool designed for Veo
• Veo 3 can generate videos — and soundtracks to go along with them | TechCrunch
• Google AI | Car Show with VEO 3
• Hashem Al-Ghaili on X: “I did more tests with Google’s #Veo3. Imagine if AI characters became aware they were living in a simulation! https://t.co/nhbrNQMtqv” / X