Top of the BoP and Other Trump Fantasies From the Battlefields of Ukraine and Gaza to the Shores of Pakistan and Venezuela – This Is How The US Is Retreating
Yves here. John Helmer provides some background below on the back and forth over draft texts on the UN resolution that attempts to put lipstick
Godzilla v. Mothra: How Google Is Winning Struggle Among AI Giants to Control News Flow
Yves here. This article describes some very important effects of the current direction of travel of AI Western-style, as in large language models, on news
Social Reuse of Seized Assets
Conor here: Naomi Fowler and Leo Schick detail missed opportunities when tax officials and law enforcement do manage to recover assets and money from criminals.
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Seal hunted by killer whales escapes by jumping onto photographer’s boat Associated Press (Dr. Kevin) German scientists discover that rats hunt bats in the dark
Cities Panic Over Having to Release Mass Surveillance Recordings
Yves here. BWAHAHA. There is so little good news on the mass surveillance that every win ought to be celebrated. And the precedent here is
More and More Young People Disengaged from Work and Social Contact
The Financial Times has a new piece on a growing social problem in many countries: the fate of young adults who fail to land jobs
Has Ed Zitron Found the Fatal Flaw with OpenAI and Its Flagship ChatGPT?
Ed Zitron has been relentlessly pursuing the questionable economics of AI and has tentatively identified a bombshell in his latest post, Exclusive: Here’s How Much
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Future of Elite Forces
The New Landscape of War The battlefields of Ukraine have revealed a transformation unprecedented since the mechanized wars of the twentieth century. As Baluyevsky and
Who Will End Up Paying for the AI Spending Spree?
Yves here. This high level recap explains how the seemingly indefensible idea of an AI bailout is being packaged to make it look less appalling.
Book Excerpt: How Coyotes Found a New Homeland in the East
By Hillary Rosner, a science journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times and National Geographic, among other outlets. “Roam” is her first