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Here are five things I’m looking at and loving this week:

The kids are alright.

I love Sara Lando’s talk of making a “ta-dah list instead of a to-do list.”

Thanks to Eric Maierson’s always interesting newsletter I learned the Muppets' iconic Mah Nà Mah Nà'song originated in a steamy soft-core Italian film.

“I would advocate not moving fast and breaking things,” said Deepmind’s CEO Demis Hassabis voicing his concern about the speed at which AI is progressing. DeepMind—a subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet—is one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence labs. “When it comes to very powerful technologies—and obviously AI is going to be one of the most powerful ever—we need to be careful,” he says. “Not everybody is thinking about those things. It’s like experimentalists, many of whom don’t realize they’re holding dangerous material.” Worse still, Hassabis points out, we are the guinea pigs.

Shameless self-promotion: My other newsletter dropped this week. It’s my January 2023 reminder to editors that I’m still alive and well… and in DC.