Archive - Chaos & Amazement

Chaos & Amazement #2510 Digg’s Reboot, Sesame’s AI Voice Assistant, and A Cat’s-Eye View of Japan

This week's edition dives into the shifting tides of tech—revivals, farewells, and fresh AI experiments—plus a dose of the weird and wonderful just to…

Mar 8 •

Chaos & Amazement #2509 The Economic Handoff to AI, Dark Factories in China, and The Uncomfortable

This week: the surprising sources Gen Z trusts for information, the looming "Economic Handoff" to AI, the rise of "dark factories" in China, plus a few…

Mar 1 •

February 2025

Chaos & Amazement #2508: Delightmare Vibes, AI Workers, and Project 2025 in Motion

The world is getting stranger: The White House made an ASMR deportation video, AI is replacing human jobs, and the internet is here to remind us that…

Feb 22 •

Chaos & Amazement #2507: YouTube’s Dating Past, AI Celeb Drama, and the Rise of WikiTok

Feb 15 •

Chaos & Amazement #2506 OpenEuroLLM 🇪🇺, OmniHuman AI Video, and Dancing Boss

Feeling good and ready to share some cool tech, from EU e-commerce changes to AI, lucid dreams, and a hilarious shark movie concept, plus some fun…

Feb 8 •

Chaos & Amazement #2505 MrDeepfakes Exposed, Deepseek AI’s Launch and the Inverse Turing Test

This week in Chaos & Amazement: deepfakes and their dangers 🎭, China's AI breakthrough 🤖, a mind-bending twist on the Turing test 🌀, and the usual…

Feb 1 •

January 2025

Chaos & Amazement #2504 Social Media’s TikTokification, OpenAI’s Operator, and Grand Theft Hamlet

This week’s news cycle was so bizarre that, for the first time in my life, I found myself wishing we’re living in a simulation—so I’ve put together an…

Jan 25 •

Chaos & Amazement #2503 TikTok Refugees, Fake Woodstock Girls, and Cats Being Weird

🌪️ Wild times in tech this week: TikTok faces a total US shutdown, fake Woodstock photos go viral, and cats continue their quest to sleep in…

Jan 18 •

Chaos & Amazement #2502 Meta Ditches Fact-Checking, Cute Fluffy Robots, and Websites from Hell

From Mark Zuckerberg kissing the king’s ring to robot dogs stealing hearts at CES 2025, this week's tech rollercoaster proves that truth is optional but…

Jan 11 •

Chaos & Amazement #2501 Google’s Identity Crisis, Spotify’s Ghosts, and Bobby Fingers’ Mini Marvels

🎉 Kicking off 2025 with curious shifts in tech, 🎧 creative twists in music, and 🎨 unexpected artistry—here’s to a year full of discovery!

Jan 4 •

December 2024

Chaos & Amazement #2451 Albania’s TikTok Ban, Charlie the Unicorn, and Stuffed Rectums

I'm confused, full of cheese, and unsure of the day of the week – welcome to Limbo Week, the bizarre period between Christmas and New Year's where time…

Dec 28, 2024 •

Chaos & Amazement #2450 TikTok’s Legal Showdown, Marketing’s Next Chapter, and a Cozy Christmas Nexus

This week’s Chaos & Amazement brings tech shifts, AI quirks, and some charming creative sparks, wrapped up with a cozy holiday vibe. 🎄✨

Dec 21, 2024 •

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