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Heaven or High Water – Popula: Selling the first city to be swallowed by the Atlantic.
3 Body Problem VR headset review: magical tech in need of more apps - The Verge: Don’t read the comments. Far too many people take themselves for too seriously.
M51 (MIRI image) | ESA/Webb (esawebb.org): Science is cool.
Seen but not heard: The New York Times failed to quote trans people in over 60% of 2023 stories on anti-trans legislation | Media Matters for America: When journalists talk about being objective, what they mean is they decide what is and is not controversial.
BBC Abandons 'Doctor Who' AI Promo Plans After Viewer Complaints - Decrypt: Keep complaining and imitative AI doesn’t have to be our future.
Korean Non-Profits Say Idol Album Donations Are Useless... And Beg K-Pop Fans To Stop "Dumping" - Koreaboo: The villain here seems ot be the management companies that encourage buying multiple albums with specials and purchase levels for events, etc.
Workers with job flexibility and security have better mental health | Ars Technica: The sun is hot, water is wet, etc.
Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans ‘parts pairing’ - The Verge: This is important because it prevents locking in parts via software checks, thus opening up cheaper and more available repairs.
Suicide Mission - The American Prospect: MBA’s and finance people from Wall street destroyed the safety of Boening airplanes. People should be in jail over these tactics.
The Deaths of Effective Altruism | WIRED: Effective altruism was neither. It was poor philosophy designed to flatter rich people and let them feel good about doing whatever they wanted for themselves.
Are large language models on the trajectory of word processing or digital advertising? (substack.com): Great analogy to help understand why imitative AI is likely just another poor technology.
The Miseducation of Kara Swisher | Edward Ongweso Jr. (thebaffler.com): Kara Swisher is everything wrong with tech journalism and this review shows why.
The NCAA let the Utah women’s basketball team down (andscape.com): Putting players in the middle of a bastion of alt-right, white supremacy was a deep, deep failure.
After Concorde, a long road back to supersonic air travel | Ars Technica: Very understandable and fascinating look at why we might not get supersonic air travel again.
Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals | Ars Technica: Pretty sure this image was in one of my textbooks. I had no idea it’s history and this kind of ban is long overdue.
Enjoy the week everyone.