Friday Links on Wednesday!
A huge link drop, just in time for you to be hiding in the toilet at your family dinner.
Here's a funny interview with Aubrey Plaza (one of my favorite actors): Aubrey Plaza details the epically awkward Parks and Rec audition that launched her career.
It's always epic: Weekend Update: Christmas Joke Swap 2024 - SNL.
Here's a real treat from the greatest card magician of all-time: Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants.
From Wally, a terrific reading list: Our writers pick the 26 best science fiction short stories of all time. They're coming: Why Is It So Hard to Make a Robot Chef? An advent calendar of works entering the public domain in 2025: What Will Enter the Public Domain. Sorry, it's not Die Hard: Lord of the Rings Film Is Secretly a Christmas Movie.
From Ken P., and it's shameful: Endo’s End Around: How One of the Nation’s Largest Opioid Makers Escaped a $7 Billion Federal Penalty. Boy, what a surprise: Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted. Not surprising: Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls and Tickets. This is incredible, if it can be verified: Fitbit data accurately predicts bipolar disorder mood swings. A slow-moving disaster: Dozens of luxury condos, hotels in Miami sinking at ‘unexpected’ rates, new study reveals. Cheech and Chong definitely belong in: ‘Dirty Dancing,’ ‘Beverly Hills Cop,’ ‘Up in Smoke’ among movies entering the National Film Registry. Bizarre: Cockroaches turned into cyborgs in just 68 seconds with new automated machine. Fascinating: Why does the COVID-19 virus sicken some more than others? Discovery sheds light.
From C. Lee, and it's quite a scandal: Ex-intelligence commander's note reveals alleged plans to 'provoke N. Korea at NLL': polices. And more: Former, incumbent military intelligence officers planned martial law operations over burgers: police. The continuing security of crypto: Backdoor slipped into popular code library, drains ~$155k from digital wallets. This sounds like a real breakthrough: Scientists create diamond battery that can last thousands of years. AI instead of humans continues to be problematic: BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline. I don't agree with this, but it's thought-provoking: The Perverse Consequences of Tuition-Free Medical School. Impressive: New drone has legs for landing gear, enabling efficient launches. CDs don't really have a use case with the ubiquity of streaming: Vinyl is crushing CDs as music industry eclipses cinema, report says. An excellent interview: The big PlayStation 30th anniversary interview with Shawn Layden: "It was a fight to get the Sony name on the machine - they didn't want to be associated with it". A terrific retrospective: Writing WipEout, one of gaming's most enduring, vivid worlds. Very clever: PlayStation 30th anniversary: what if Digital Foundry existed in 1990s? Brilliant: An 83-year-old short story by Borges portends a bleak future for the internet. It shouldn't be like this, but welcome to healthcare in the U.S.: UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism.
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