Some things I enjoyed reading this week.
The long, bloody lineage of private equity’s looting | by Cory Doctorow | Jun, 2023 | Medium: Nice overview of how private equity can be a destructive force.
Getting to the Heart of SFF’s Most-Tear Inducing Moments | Tor.com: I am exactly this person as well.
Apple’s Journal app needs to read the room - The Verge: Great discussion of how stupidly harmful a lot of consumer facing AI can be. And I learned an awesome new word: nunchi
TV’s Streaming Model Is Broken. It’s Also Not Going Away. (vulture.com): Wall Street killed the TV golden goose and no one seems to know how to get it back.
Researchers discover that ChatGPT prefers repeating 25 jokes over and over | Ars Technica: ChatGPT cannot learn a sense of humor. More seriously, this is strong evidence that it just copies its training data, not generates material.
A Matter of Survival: How the WGA Is Trying to Save Feature Screenwriters (substack.com): An infuriating story about how studios take advantage of writers even unto the point of almost killing them.
Tesla 'Autopilot' crashes and fatalities surge, despite Musk's claims - The Washington Post: Tesla crashes a lot more than they claim. Worse, they won’t let the public see the full picture.