Friday Links!
Leading off this week, and it's an important read: On the Propaganda of Early Nazism, and How We See it in America Today.
This is quite amazing: Scorpions go terminator mode and reinforce their weapons with metal.
A fantastic read: The man who blew up a nuclear power station and disappeared.
This is fascinating: Ice Age dice show early Native Americans may have understood probability.
I can't remember if I've already linked to this, but it's terrific: Snake Bros Keep Getting Bitten by Their Lethal Pets. Only Zoos Can Save Them.
From D.G.F., and gee, I can't imagine any problems with this: Precrime Is No Longer Science Fiction.
Utterly tragic: Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth.
This guy gets it: ‘Are we kind of being pricks?’: Resident’s question goes viral as Marblehead passes MBTA zoning.
From Meg McReynolds, and it's an excellent read: We Removed the Immune System: Amazon built an AI system to find all its other AI systems. It found 247. It did not find itself. The governance process generates the metric it was designed to reduce. That's the job.
From Wally, and it's a time capsule: Reaching for the stars: enduring symbols of Soviet science – in pictures. An interesting wargame experiment: Playing an AI game (Napoleonic). This is an interesting issue that will get more complicated over time: I gave ‘Shy Girl’ a five-star review before I found out it was AI-generated.
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