Sorry about the paucity of writing last week. Life got in the way. Anyway, here are good things to read!
M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial • The Register: The only question about imitative AI is whether or not the ideology keeps losing money on it or if the business failings finally overwhelm the ideology.
Why Is Ice Slippery? New Study Overturns 200-Year-Old Physics Theory: Science is cool. And slippery.
Post by @courtneymilan.com — Bluesky: Great thread on the history behind the Anthropic settlement.
How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein - The New York Times: The lack of elite accountability is destroying us.
There Is No Third Door - by Brian Beutler - Off Message: Perfectly said.
Programmers Using AI Create Way More Glaring Security Issues, Data Shows: More PhD level work, apparently ….
Have Cake, Eat It Too: Delivery Workers Earning More, Industry Booming With Minimum Pay Standard - Streetsblog New York City: Oh hey. Spreading money around to more people is better for the economy than concentrating it in the hands of a very few. Who knew — besides anyone with a lick of common sense?
Geoengineering will not save humankind from climate change - Ars Technica: Not much to add, but read the whole thing. It is enlightening.
Has Perseverance found a biosignature on Mars? - Ars Technica: Science is cool and possibly alive.
Opinion | They Don’t Want to Live in Lincoln’s America - The New York Times: And the majority of us do, which is why political conflicts seem so intractable.
How Lofi Girl Became a Chill Beats Empire: Interesting look at how a YouTube sensation has changed habits, business, and the music that spawned it.
Anonymity is dead and we’re all content now | The Verge: I intend to write more about this, but this is both true and not inevitable.
How Bitcoin ATMs Are Helping Scammers Steal Millions: Once again: cryptocurrencies have only two use cases — crime and gambling.
Going beyond the polls - by Ben Recht and Leif Weatherby: This is a few months old, but important.
Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit | The Guardian: A good reminder that before feminism, Epstein would not have been seen as out of bounds.
Have the best possible week, everyone!
Sometimes a lesser quantity is better than too much. Thank you for the list of good reads.