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: Water (Open this on a mobile device, not a laptop or desktop.)
: Espresso Coffee Mitigates the Aggregation and Condensation of Alzheimer′s Associated Tau Protein
: Sheila E. on Instagram via Kottke I could watch this on a loop all day. What I wouldn’t give to have …
: The Langoliers Horrendous acting by some wonderful actors.
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: The only things you can leave behind are questions.
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: Opportunity Econophysics: Opportunity Cones, Conscious Agents, and Mechanical Traces of the …
: Humans first landed on the moon 54 years ago today.
: Save The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
: Fran Drescher: “We are all going to be in jeopardy of being replaced by machines” Not a headline I …
: Anthropic’s Claude Is Competing With ChatGPT. Even Its Builders Fear AI. One Anthropic worker told …
: Anything is beautiful if you decide it is.
: SpaceX Starlink satellites had to make 25,000 collision-avoidance maneuvers in just 6 months — and …
: How Samuel R. Delany Reimagined Sci-Fi, Sex, and the City As we said our goodbyes, it felt like …
: Risk Factor Search an address to see its risk from flooding, wildfire, heat, and wind.
: Terrible real estate agent photographs
: The Supreme Court Has Killed Affirmative Action. Mediocre Whites Can Rest Easier. via Kottke I …
: Advanced macOS Command-Line Tools For fellow Mac nerds.
: Everything Must Be Paid for Twice via Kottke Paying a second price, unpleasant as it sounds, is a …
: There’s a phrase that’s been rattling around my head for the last several months. “I love you, but …
: Meta (aka Facebook) says its new speech-generating AI model is too dangerous for public release
: Snowden Ten Years Later Now, ten years later, I offer this as a time capsule of what those early …
: Much of my work is drying up. AI is moving into my field faster than most others, and I have been …
: Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89 With an eye for the darker side of …
: Yesterday was the military funeral for my neighbor that died in February. His ashes were interred at …
: Archive Your Reddit Data While You Still Can I’ve been a fairly active Redditor for more than 11 …
: Headed Into the Abyss by Brian T. Watson 📚 I just finished, laying here in my bed, the dogs and cat …
: The Dark Mountain Manifesto Around the world, discontent can be heard. The extremists are grinding …
: Laura Branigan - Gloria I’d been watching this on a loop when it hit me: she dances just like me …
: Daring Fireball: First Impressions of Vision Pro and VisionOS
: Astrud Gilberto: The Girl from Ipanema singer dies at 83 Getz/Gilberto remains one of the most …
: Deliberate Explosion Inside Ukraine Dam Most Likely Caused Collapse, Experts Say Ukrainian …
: TV’s Streaming Model Is Broken. It’s Also Not Going Away. “If you could bring back the heyday of …
: OpenAI is now allowing its bot to interact with the live internet. This will make it more useful—and …
: Having children is not life-affirming: it’s immoral If any other species caused as much damage as …
: Putin deep fake video is broadcast in parts of Russia The broadcast, which also claimed there was …
: First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good. I was HIGHLY doubtful that Apple …
: I wore the Apple Vision Pro. It’s the best headset demo ever. The video passthrough was similarly …
: ‘The Machines We Have Now Are Not Conscious’ What we have with these LLMs isn’t low-level …
: What Happens After the Worst Happens? Stories in nature are once-upon-a-time stories, with slow, …
: Thought Cloning: Learning to Think while Acting by Imitating Human Thinking Whoa.
: The secret push to bury a weedkiller’s link to Parkinson’s disease In another example of a company …
: Brute.Fail Watch brute force attacks in real time.
: America Is Headed Toward Collapse The long history of human society compiled in our database …
: Will a Dollar General Ruin a Rural Crossroads? Some say they recognize that the county needs tax …
: Chicago crime map Over Memorial Day weekend, nine people were killed with guns, and another fifty …
: Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good. That’s the true value of notebooks, notes …
: Reddit announces new API pricing The end of an era, and perhaps the end of my time spent on Reddit. …
: A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn Some skeptics argue that A.I. technology is …
: Today’s the day. Siobhan Roy might be horribly selfish, emotionally stunted, and out of her league, …
: Scar tissues Some people are just too nice, and they wreck the relationships. They think, “Oh, it’s …
: Driver’s Licenses, Addresses, Photos: Inside How TikTok Shares User Data
: Poll: 61% of Americans say AI threatens humanity’s future The poll also revealed a political divide …
: Tomorrow afternoon, I have to put down one of my dogs. I'm heartbroken, which is no surprise. I've …
: Rent control works Rather than doing the thing we want, neoliberal economists insist we must …
: Winifred Gallagher She’s fast becoming my favorite writer.
: Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease
: Online age verification is coming, and privacy is on the chopping block
: Google’s new Magic Editor pushes us toward AI-perfected fakery
: The McMansion as harbinger of the American apocalypse In the wake of the recession, the United …
: Boring Report - Using AI to Desensationalize the News
: Paul Graham on Twitter Observation suggests that people are switching to using ChatGPT to write …
: Google CEO Sundar Pichai warns society to brace for impact of A.I. acceleration When asked whether …
: America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2023 via Kottke The Century and Consumers Buildings …
: The Hurricane and the Saildrone
: Defending against Bluetooth tracker abuse: it’s complicated Ever wonder how AirTags work?
: Wendy’s, Google Train Next-Generation Order Taker: an AI Chatbot The application has also been …
: China detains man for using ChatGPT for spreading fake news in first known case Gansu police …
: Dispatch from the scaffolds: Native fishing culture on the Columbia River
: A group is its own worst enemy Now, suddenly, when you create software, it isn’t sufficient to …
: Arrested Succession Arrested Development + Succession = perfection
: OpenAI contractors make $15 to train ChatGPT The work is defined by its unsteady, on-demand nature, …
: Gordon Lightfoot’s ‘Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ Was An Unlikely Hit This has been a favorite …
: Soma.FM “Hey Siri, play SomaFM [station name] radio.” You won’t be disappointed.
: May the Force always be with you via Kottke In 1977, when Star Wars took the “domestic film …
: Cory Doctorow: The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have a Point You might have some swivel-eyed loons in your …
: How Could AI Change War? U.S. Defense Experts Warn About New Tech “If we stop, guess who’s not …
: There’s a mansion hidden directly under the Bay Bridge
: Mrs. Davis - Official Trailer The second-best show currently on television, right behind Somebody …
: Rethinking Authenticity in the Era of Generative AI If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and …
: Reservoir: A Series New York’s reservoirs exemplify the social compact that undergirds ambitious …
: Google shared AI knowledge with the world — until ChatGPT caught up Pichai and other executives …
: A Paper That Says Science Should Be Impartial Was Rejected From Major Journals. You Can’t Make This …
: Pornhub shocks Utah by restricting access over age-verification law. According to Pornhub, Utah’s …
: The Disappearing Acts of Haruki Murakami
: Snapchat is already testing sponsored links in its My AI chatbot. The ads will appear between posts …
: AI plus MRI yields the ability to recognize what the mind is hearing. Today, researchers announced …
: Mark Zuckerberg says Meta wants to ‘introduce AI agents to billions of people.’ Zuckerberg said …
: Drake’s AI clone is here — and Drake might not be able to stop him. …the tracks aren’t copying …
: When I tell people that I’ve lost several clients to ChatGPT and its ilk over the last few weeks, …
: ‘Godfather of AI’ quits Google with regrets and fears about his life’s work. The spread of …
: The A.I. Dilemma 50% of AI researchers think there’s a 10% or greater chance that AI will cause the …
: Tesla lawyers claim Elon Musk’s past statements about self-driving safety could just be deepfakes. …
: I am anxious. I am not hopeful for the future. When I go for a walk in the forest, sometimes I see …
: The swagged-out pope is an AI fake — and an early glimpse of a new reality. I’m incredibly nervous …
: The reverse turing test. GPT–4 (came up with)/(retrieved from its database) some excellent …
: Microsoft Now Claims GPT–4 Shows ‘Sparks’ of General Intelligence.
: Utah governor signs new laws requiring parental consent for under–18s to use social media. I mean, …
: Was this written by a human or AI? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
: I think the philosophical implications of these LLMs are among the most troubling. Think about your …
: It’s likely I’m going to spend the next few days thinking out loud about the recent AI announcements …
: Given the level of most people’s technical sophistication, how on earth do we talk about the …
: We can’t define “race,” so stop using it in science. Genetics data has revealed that the popular …
: A few weeks ago, my only friend in this town died. Fifty-one years my senior, he was my neighbor …
: Planning for Artificial General Intelligence and beyond.
: Creation happens in silence.
: Whoever told you the world makes sense?
: Does my ingenium hibernate when I am content, or is that a myth writers tell themselves to …
: “I have ambition to have no ambition." Years ago, I read this article in the New York Times. His …
: Entire Sci-Fi Magazine Generated with AI.
: Thomas Edsall’s opinion piece in the New York Times about rural American resentment has been lodged …
: I confess: I am in love with America. I say this as a native son. I was born & raised in the …
: You’re pointing the camera the wrong way.
: In this era of Substack and Medium and every conceivable lit magazine out there, I spend a lot of …