Star Wars by Wes Anderson Trailer | The Galactic Menagerie
The obvious joke but pretty good
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The weight bias against women in the workforce is real — and it's only getting worse
Not surprising that it's true but the breadth and depth of impact is.
an increase of 10% in a woman's body mass decreased her income by 6%
there's the perception that body weight is under one's own control, compared to race or skin color
Addressing the Security Risks of AI
Mitigate those risks!
Many AI products are deployed without institutions fully understanding the security risks they pose.
AI to Aid Democracy
Interesting idea for a publicly owned AI model.
Long COVID Is Being Erased—Again
This is the thing I'm most afraid of.
Britain in Crisis: The UK Faces a Steep Climb Out of a Deep Hole
Capitalism is pretty damn broken for most people
How Rural America Steals Girls’ Futures
Kinda just ends with no explanation since it's from a book but oof. Toxic patriarchy plus no economic support creates this awful situation.
Space Elevator
Neat toy with some facts.
How ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ Crafted One of Its More Controversial Episodes
Nice stories about the alternate takes they had on an iconic episode.
Weak Lungs
Oof. Great writing but especially interesting is the not being mad anymore bit.
How our history of downzoning is an argument against "local control" in the legislature and has huge impacts on racial discrimination in housing
Shocker that redlining lived on after becoming de jure disallowed
We know the current landscape of dominant, exclusionary single family zoning in our region happened at the same time the last tools to legally and openly discriminate in housing were taken away.
Wellness Influencers and Tech Bros Are Treating This Diabetes Device Like a Fun Trend
Capitalism gonna capitalism
CAN Injection: keyless car theft
I don't know why I assumed car keys had some cryptography. I guess there is but just to the receiver; then it's a trusted network.
Dril Is Everyone. More Specifically, He’s a Guy Named Paul.
There are definitely a few Dril classics (most mentioned in this article) that I will remember forever, or have riffed on. A slice of Twitter I miss.
The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin
It should be illegal or prohibitively expensive to mine.
In Texas, where 10 of the 34 mines are connected to the state’s grid, the increased demand has caused electric bills for power customers to rise nearly 5 percent, or $1.8 billion per year
After accounting for the savings and revenue from each of the strategies, Riot told investors its electricity cost in 2022 was 2.96 cents per kilowatt-hour.By comparison, the average price for other industrial businesses in Texas was 7.2 cents. For residents, it was 13.5 cents.
Inside One Band's Absurd, Infuriating Legal Nightmare
This is a wild story. Seems like the band should win this one.
While lawyers try to sort through this mess, Kulash has been busy recording OK Go’s follow-up to their 2014 LP Hungry Ghosts. They were about halfway done with it when they had to take an 18-month break so Kulash and his wife, Kristin Gore, daughter of former Vice President Al Gore, could co-direct the upcoming Apple movie The Beanie Bubble.
A Number System Invented by Inuit Schoolchildren Will Make Its Silicon Valley Debut
Base 10 Arabic numerals are an interesting hegemony that pushes out alternatives. Base 5/20 makes me think of Mayan system.
How ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Resurrected an Iconic Set
Seeing the old bridge brought tears to my eyes.
Elder Magic - Penny Arcade
I have to assume Mara Jade is coming, maybe even in Ahsoka?
Brace Yourself for a Tidal Wave of ChatGPT Email Scams
Well this will be fun to defend against. Email providers are going to have to do some lifting.
It reminds us that many of the bad uses of AI are a reflection of humanity more than they are a reflection of AI technology itself.
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The sudden death and rebirth of Tweetbot
A nice follow up eulogy for what I hear was a great Twitter app I never used. I'm all in on Ivory though.
What We Still Don’t Know About How A.I. Is Trained
Seems like requiring some disclosure by law before these services are widely available would help?
No umbrellas! No honking! Here are Seattle’s ‘unspoken’ rules
We recently asked Seattle Times readers what the down-and-dirty unspoken rules of Seattle are. Over 2,000 responses flooded in — here are our favorites.
Copyright lawsuits pose a serious threat to generative AI
My biggest worry is that this would negatively impact other fair use cases.
Opinion | We Finally Know the Case Against Trump, and It Is Strong
Seems pretty open and shut to me
Donald Trump Faces 34 Felony Charges in Hush-Money Case
Folks we got 'im
The Psychedelic Inspiration For Hypercard - Mondo 2000
I don't think I knew this history! Wild.
Humanity has achieved sufficient technological power to change the course of life and the entire global ecosystem, but we seem to lack the perspective to choose wisely between alternative futures.
Tim Cook on Shaping the Future of Apple
Nice philosophical overview of Cook's thinking.
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
Long and detailed dive into the history of neural networks and computation and n-grams without too much math, and how it all works today. Great refresher.
And instead what we should conclude is that tasks—like writing essays—that we humans could do, but we didn’t think computers could do, are actually in some sense computationally easier than we thought.
In effect, we’re “opening up the brain of ChatGPT” (or at least GPT-2) and discovering, yes, it’s complicated in there, and we don’t understand it—even though in the end it’s producing recognizable human language.
Implementationally
Opinion | Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT
Chomsky has set back the field of AI before but he's not wrong here.