An honest end-of-year rundown

<p>Ben asks Matt to explain Mastodon to him like he’s five. Matt says the experience feels a lot like…LinkedIn?</p><p>Matt explains that he took social media apps off his phone for a while…just to chill out. (<i>Ed. note, they're already back on</i>.)</p><p>We cover the latest AI to emerge that can write essays, jokes, and yes, some code.</p><p>While everyone’s confused about the state of social media and AI chat, physicists have created a <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-create-a-wormhole-using-a-quantum-computer-20221130/">wormhole using a quantum computer</a>. (Though it may have been <a href="https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13209">a publicity stunt</a>.)</p><p>Follow <a href="https://twitter.com/benpopper">Ben</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/mattkander">Matt</a>.</p><p>Shout out to Lifeboat Badge winner ralf htp for their answer to the question ‘how to listen for and react to Ace Editor change events.’ <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35732051/how-to-listen-for-and-react-to-ace-editor-change-events/35732632#35732632">Your answer has helped more than 20,000+ people</a>, so rock on.</p>