Friday Links!
Leading off this week, and it's HUGE, Geoff Engelstein's new game is in collaboration with--Kurt Vonnegut! And there's a profile in the New York Times about it. What a great story.
Kurt Vonnegut the Board Game Designer.
DQ Film Advisor and Nicest Guy in the World Ben Ormand sent me this link, and it's a stunning use of AI generated video. Plenty of editing, I'm sure, but still incredible: Harry Potter reimagined as a redneck using AI.
From Meg McReynolds, and it's Fat Bear Week, people! Weigh-in With Fat Bears at Katmai National Park for Fat Bear Week.
From Wally, and I had no idea this phrase was trademarked: US Court States Marvel And DC Have Lost Their Super Hero Trademark. Generally excellent recommendations: Science-Fiction Books Scientific American’s Staff Love. Idiot alert: Crime 81-year-old man sentenced to prison for cloning giant "Montana Mountain King" sheep for captive trophy hunting.
From C. Lee, and it's an incredibly low fine: Samsung Fined After Exposing Manufacturing Workers to Radiation. This is riveting: ‘Even the breeze was hot’: how incarcerated people survive extreme heat in prison. This is promising: Kyoto team finds way to detect early pancreatic cancer with AI. Watch out! Walmart customers scammed via fake shopping lists, threatened with arrest. 1984, here we come: Ford wants to eavesdrop on passenger conversations to help target ads. This is alarming: Bird flu is spreading rapidly in California; infected herds double over weekend. Related: Can our stockpiles of Tamiflu protect against a bird flu pandemic? This is incredibly clever: Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity. It's genuinely incredible how much power LLMs use: OpenAI asked US to approve energy-guzzling 5GW data centers, report says. This is a fascinating trend: High-end cameras make epic comeback despite smartphone ubiquity. It took long enough: A misspelled memorial to the Brontë sisters gets its dots back at last. Apparently these grow in Michigan, too? Foraging for America’s Forgotten Fruit. The Wikipedia entry for the previous link: Asimina triloba (the American paw paw).
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