Happy Mothers Day to all who celebrate! I have articles about Mother’s Day.
OpenAI's CEO Is Not What He Seems: So much of our economy seems built on scams.
What Sort of AI Bubble Are We In?: Interesting look at how the bubble might hurt people.
Replace the Standard Deduction With $375 a Month for Everyone: Thoughtful piece on making lives better.
The Sheer, Unbridled Joy of Star Wars - Reactor: Star Wars succeeded, I think, because it was just fun.
What Really Went Wrong With the 'Star Wars' Prequels...Maybe: This makes a lot of sense …
With Saros, Housemarque makes a case for doing next-gen games differently | The Verge: The video game industry is broken, and part of that is the amount of time and money it takes to make phot-realistic games. I wonder if the industry’s salvation looks more like these people than the normal AAA games.
ChatGPT Confessed to a Crime It Couldn’t Possibly Commit: Ignore the ChatGPT of it all — this is really an article about how police departments are trained, at least somewhat unwittingly, on how to get false confessions.
AI stupidity + psychosis is spreading - by Lyta Gold: We are creating a class of people are having their minds eaten by chatbots.
Think Like a Martian About Money and Universal Basic Income (UBI): Another excellent brief for universal basic income.
Inside the lab where Ford is trying to crack the code on cheap EVs | The Verge: excellent look at how For is trying to think differently about how to build a car.
How Silicon Valley enabled China's digital police state | AP News: As a reminder, Larry Ellison thinks a citizenry under constant surveillance will be on it sbest behavior.
The man with an army of Yarbo robot lawn mowers | The Verge: the internet of things is a security and privacy disaster.
Pope Leo’s bank in the US hung up on him as they thought it was a prank call | The Independent: Truly, a Pope of the people.
Why is watching the NBA playoffs at a bar harder than it should be? - The Athletic: The cable era was better for everyone.
DOGE used ChatGPT in a way that was both dumb and illegal, judge rules | The Verge: These people need to go to jail.
Opinion | Mark Zuckerberg Is Running Meta Into the Ground - The New York Times: Unfortunately, there is a lot of ruin in a monopoly.
Larry Ellison Promised to Fire CNN Anchors If Trump Approved Takeover | The New Republic: But the real threats to free speech are college kids heckling far-right speakers.
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake | The Verge: Apretty conclusive case that language is not intelligence.
Have the best possible week, everyone.