Friday Links!
There's a huge book sale going on at Amazon, particularly for digital titles. Here are the authors I picked up for my tablet yesterday: Graham Greene, Leonard Elmore (2), James Baldwin, Vladimir Nabokov, Han Kang, and William Gibson. Seven outstanding books for under $20. What a haul!
The language and tone are uncannily similar: Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs.
An amazing discovery: Bites on gladiator bones prove combat with lion.
From Wally, and it's quite odd: Lucasfilm Finally Acknowledges the 39-Episode 'Star Wars' Series No One Will Ever See for the First Time in a Decade. A San Marianas Trench deep dive into a battle of the American Revolution: Breed's Hill 1775.
From Chris M., and it's an interesting read: ‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers.
From David Gloier, and I fully agree: Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin flop is bigger than Katy Perry.
From C. Lee, and it's infuriating: U.S.-Born Citizen Detained Under ICE Hold Despite Birth Certificate. Additional: American doctor receives email from immigration officials telling her to leave the country immediately. And more: Video shows ICE agent smash window to detain man in Massachusetts. Attorney says they have wrong person. Correct: Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived. Slopsquatting is a magnificent word: LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything. Won't be the last: A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data. Also not the last: Company apologizes after AI support agent invents policy that causes user uproar. Concerning: OpenAI used to test its AI models for months - now it's days. Why that matters. I think we already knew: The confusion around $90 Switch 2 games proves how broken the internet is. Yeah, this is a terrible idea: That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows. This is wonderful, and you can click through to see the entire series after reading the first one: The Script of Earthbound: a chat between the English localizer of Earthbound 2 and its creator.
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