Scientists Found a Potential Sign of Life on a Distant Planet – An Astronomer Explains Why Many Are Still Skeptical
Many uncertainties remain about K2-18b.
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AI-Generated Images Can Exploit How Your Mind Works − Here’s Why They Fool You and How to Spot Them
Some tips on detecting AI-generated images.
Read more...Why Is the Trump Administration So Obsessed with Shipping Lanes?
The case that it’s about preparing for conflict with China.
Read more...When Algorithms Take the Field – Inside MLB’s Robo-Umping Experiment
Whether robot umpires would be better for the game is debatable, but they’d be bad news for labor.
Read more...Fifteen Songs About Airplanes and Flight
One last aggregation…..
Read more...Paradise Is a Police State: Examining the Techno-Optimism of Billionaire Silicon Valley Investor (And Unofficial Trump Administration Adviser) Marc Andreessen
The unlimited AI and energy now being unleashed is supposed to usher in a new utopia centered around low wages and prices. So why are Andreessen and friends so intent on a police state as part of the grand experiment we’re all being enlisted in?
Read more...Does Trump’s Attempted “Dismantling” of Spook-Infested, Regime Change Agency USAID Herald a New Foreign Policy Era?
It looks more like an attempt to bring under control rogue agencies that were hostile to Trump during his first term in office as well as a shift in the type of “values” the US will support abroad.
Read more...Meet the Cats Who Roam Rikers Island
Even cats in a prison setting find human servants!
Read more...How Is It That xAI’s (Naïve) Grok Does Not Reveal that xAI is a Public Benefit Corporation?
Lambert annotates a Grok transcript.
Read more...Game of Drones: “Watch the Skies!”
Several theories for the rash of drone sightings in New Jersey
Read more...Cities Made Differently: Try Imagining Another Urban Existence
History shows that there are many ways we can live together. An overview of some of the options from Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber.
Read more...The Wars Come Home
Silicon Valley looks to bring tech used in conflicts abroad back to American shores.
Read more...My Life So Far in Writing Bits and Bytes (Partly, at Least)
How I learned to finish what I started.
Read more...How the Surrealists Used Randomness as a Catalyst for Creative Expression
it’s important to recognize that embracing randomness allowed these artists to think outside the box
Read more...My Life So Far in Type (Partly, at Least)
Reminiscence of the transition from analog to digital in the publishing world.
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