This week we generate AI food, inflate the price of admission to the metaverse, and pile on to Instagram with the Kardashians.

FOLLOW

• MOMENTOUS

• The MOMENTEAM

FOLLOW-UP

• Review: Framework’s next-gen Laptop follows through on its upgradeable promises

• Google fires Blake Lemoine, the engineer who claimed AI chatbot is a person

• Absurd AI-Generated Professional Food Photography with DALL-E 2

• AI art is challenging the boundaries of curation

• Opinion: OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 is the big tech equivalent of ‘soylent green’

• The DALL·E 2 Prompt Book

NEWS

• Meta is raising Quest 2 headset prices by $100 next month

• Yes, it’s weird for the two-year-old Meta Quest 2 to go up in price

• Meta is shutting down its couples messaging app you didn't know existed

• Instagram causes eating disorders, depression in young girls, new lawsuits claim

• Instagram is testing a new full-screen TikTok-like feed

• Instagram head responds to backlash by saying video is inevitable

• Instagram Woes - forcing users into test mode with no return

• Chessie King Carter (@chessieking)

• Lucie Fink Morris (@luciebfink)

• Jennifer Garner (@jennifer.garner)

• The Prince of Barkness (@the_prince_of_barkness)

• ☁️ Sivz ☁️ (@sivzmusic)

• Seabus Memes (@seabusmemes)

• thundergirl_xtal (@thundergirl_xtal)

• Moto Guzzi (@motoguzzi)

PICKS

• Shania Twain - Not Just A Girl | Official Trailer | On Netflix Now

• How to cook that

• Alone Season 9

PROJECTS

• Aging with Pride

• Google Drive Tutorial: How to Use Google Drive on Desktop 2022