Friday Links!
Leading off this week, and absolutely brilliant interview from an outstanding writer: Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on the legacy of “Apocalypse Now”.
Too bad her fame is based on fraud (I really admired her as a kid): Diana Nyad’s Swimming Brought Her Glory, Fame, And An Adversary Dedicated To Exposing Her Lies.
From David Gloier, and it's a remarkable discovery: Farmer protecting chickens captures creature considered locally extinct for 130 years. This is remarkable: Pythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras.
I'd buy one of these tomorrow, if I could: Best Selling Lawn Mower That's Illegal In U.S.. Under construction: Your FIRST LOOK at America’s Only Permanent BATMAN ’66 MUSEUM. A worthwhile essay on the curse of bigness: Google's enshittification memos. I didn't realize they hadn't figured this out: Scientists Think They've Finally Figured Out How Cats Purr. The shows are wildly off in their order, but as a list of fifty great shows, it's excellent: Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 50 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century (So Far).
From C. Lee, and this should be getting more attention: The Dark History Oppenheimer Didn’t Show. A bizarre relic of the Cold War: We Got Our Hands on an HK G11, the Space-Age Rifle That Never Was. And here's the new one: We Fired the Army’s New Rifle and Machine Gun. It Was a Heavy-Metal Experience. Well-presented data: Visualizing $156 Trillion in U.S. Assets, by Generation. I've actually started using this budgeting method: Kakeibo: The Japanese art of saving money. This is supremely embarrassing: Microsoft blames human error, not AI, for recommending tourists visit a food bank on an empty stomach. It wasn't just that article, though: Pluralistic: Supervised AI isn't. This is astonishing: Humanoid Robot Can Fly a Plane Just By Reading the Manual. A hero: Remembering man who saved Koreans in 1923 post-quake chaos. Congratulations, and Penn must be ruing the day: Nobel Prize Awarded to Covid Vaccine Pioneers.
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