Fri. 03/17 – Midjourney 5 Is Amazing

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🗓️ 17 March 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Amazon Kindle gets out of the magazine business. An ironically named PE firm is buying Porn Hub. Midjourney v5 is really mind blowing. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Sponsors: RelationshipHero.com/techmeme Links: Amazon will discontinue newspaper and magazine subscriptions in September (GoodEReader) SVB Financial files for Ch. 11 bankruptcy protection, says it has $2.2B in liquidity (TechCrunch) Pornhub owner sold to Canadian private equity firm Ethical Capital (Financial Times) AI-imager Midjourney v5 stuns with photorealistic images—and 5-fingered hands (ArsTechnica) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: The Guardians (Meteor) The Future Smartphone: More Folds, Less Phone, a Whole Lot of AI (Wired) LinkedIn turns 20: An oral history of an unlikely champion (Fast Company) ‘It changed the world’: 50 years on, the story of Pong's Bay Area origins (SFGate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meam Ride Home for Friday, March 17th, 2023.
0:08.2	I'm Brian McCullough.
0:09.3	Today Amazon Kindle gets out of the magazine business. An ironically named PE firm is buying
0:15.6	Pornhub. Mid Journey version 5 is really pretty mind-blowing. And of course, the weekend long read
0:22.3	suggestions.
0:23.0	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:27.0	Amazon has stopped selling newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and
0:37.6	Print and plans to shut down Kindle Newsstand in September.
0:43.5	It's an old story now, but how tablets and e-readers
0:46.9	did not become the standard way people consume magazines
0:49.8	and newspapers is something that still puzzles me.
0:53.0	Like what do people do with their iPads, just web stuff, I guess?
0:57.0	Anyway, quoting good e-reader.
1:00.0	Amazon is trying to convince publishers to submit their newspapers and magazines to Prime Reading
1:04.5	or Kindle Unlimited, but it remains to be seen if this will happen.
1:08.0	One of the significant advantages of magazines and newspapers on the Kindle is that they were
1:12.1	optimized for the Kindle.
1:14.0	They read like e-books where you can increase the text size or change the font type.
1:18.0	Some pictures were in black and white to separate all of the text.
1:22.0	This was the significant advantage of a Kindle.
1:24.0	The closure of the Amazon Newsstand will hit hard all genre magazines like Clark's World,
1:29.2	Uncanny Valley, Asimov's, or Fantasy and Science Fiction, they have many subscribers on
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