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.
Hoping your weekend was good. I'm on vacation in Chincoteauge, Va. May not return, too much shit in the air. You know to keep writing, I'll keep reading.. and Love the Family ! Happy week !!!