Surgery successful, even if I still feel as if I lost a fight with a tiger.
Opinion | Off-the-record Democrats are resigned to Trump and the Big Bad Wolf, too - The Washington Post: Give this woman a Pulitzer
Rot Economics - An Interview With MIT's Daron Acemoglu (wheresyoured.at): Fascinating interview
CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage | TechCrunch: This is not a joke. They took down hospitals, among other businesses, and offered a cup of coffee in return.
Here’s the reason A Sign of Affection has such detailed lips - Polygon: I have never seen this anime, but I love this kind of deep reading of material. It’s actually very thoughtful.
Alexa had “no profit timeline,” cost Amazon $25 billion in 4 years | Ars Technica: I guess if you are a monopoly, profits happen to other people. Also, how did they imagine they were going to make money on these things if they sold the hardware at a loss?
Has Anything Changed Since 1982? - by Kate McKean (substack.com): What has changed the most in the amount of money the writers make. And not for the good.
marquis & peele - by Allison Epstein (substack.com): Again — subscribe to Allison. She is the funniest historian on the interwebs.
AI Video Generator Runway Trained on Thousands of YouTube Videos Without Permission (404media.co): Not surprised. Disappointed, but not surprised.
Rams' Sean McVay among NFL coaches rethinking sleep habits - ESPN: Nice to see the idea that exhausted people aren’t effective people inching its way into the NFL.
What I See in the Video of Sonya Massey’s Killing - The Atlantic: Heartbreaking. And while it’s good to see the police are not rallying around this specific case, it happens far, far too often.
Investors Are Suddenly Getting Very Concerned That AI Isn't Making Any Serious Money (futurism.com): “ChatGTP, can you describe an economic bubble?”
Have a great week, everyone.
Glad that surgery was successful! And now, more healing. Thanks in advance for all these rabbit holes I will now be going into....