Tabs for July 28th 2023
- The Santiago Boys. Fascinating podcast series about a corp challenging bigger corps & government agencies. And a gorgeous website, too!
- Kagi paid search. I've seen this engine mentioned a few times. The business model is transparent and obvious, but I'm still not sure on the price.
- Bring me to life. This is the weirdest rendition of the song I've seen, anyway.
- 2600 finally has a digital subscription option
- Super detailed questions for openAI. The government are coming, and they want to know how GPT actually works, and whether it's legal or not.
- Observational implications of cosmologically coupled black holes
- Languages do not “die”, they are persecuted: A Scottish Gael’s perspective on language “loss”
- Dead EV batteries turn to gold with U.S. incentives
- Men are lost. Agree. I've so many male friends my age who are absolutely, absurdly lost at sea. And none of them can admit it.
- Death metal english
- Moofmender. Someone's secured parts for Van Moof bikes and made a marketplace!
- Arts Council research shows 'worrying level of decline' in young people attending cultural events. The same young people who can't see a future, buy a home or get a good job in the much heralded tech world are now expected to pony up for art events that are largely targeted at other artists.
- ‘If you want the dog back ... $1,000’: The incredible rescue of a Silicon Valley collie held for ransom
- A cool idea to have a digital, printable colouring book
- A man claims to be the King of Ireland
- A New Doc Says Sinéad O’Connor Matters More Than You Think. It’s Right
- Musk takes @X without paying owner. Stop pretending Twitter/X is a public utility. It's a private toy owned by one man. Stop playing with his toys.
- Sony warns that AI could lead to folks living as second-class citizens. Without AI, we have people living as second class citizens already!
- AI explainer with minimal math or jargon
- Textual paint
- Mike Bird & Noah Smith debate industrial policy
- A good take on Twitter rebranding to a letter it doesn't own rights to
- Some JWST observations. I love this.
- Bohs Light. Went to a pub for a drink with a mate yesterday and discovered a copyright-infringing (I assume) light beer named after the local, and beloved, football club. They had none left!
- Jellykeys at a meetup. Keyboard fans will love this.
- Chris Skinner asks what the point of Brexit was. To bring infinite schedenfreud to the Irish wasn't on Chris' bingo card.
- Ryanair will need to defend it's use of facial recog tech