I was reminded by a friend this week that Google does indeed have to pay for traffic. Not only do they pay out to properties who run their ads via AdSense, but they also write huge multi-billion dollar checks every […]
“Emergent AI behavior is wild. We did not program this in. Because the Replit AI has access to the filesystem it thought it can look at images so when it was having trouble helping the user it asked for a […]
Years ago, when I lived in Lincoln Park, I would pass this house pretty regularly. It’s certainly impressive! ~ learn more
This is about the Loop specifically, which has historically been dominated by offices. The story is that families moved out during the pandemic, replaced by newcomers drawn to big ‘free rent’ incentives from building. Today the value prop for many […]
“So the question has to be asked: what kind of content has been removed, and why? To find out, I compared 100 episodes of the original version of The Big Bang Theory with the edited Youku version to understand what […]
I discovered this post on Kvetch, a substack newsletter by Australian investment manager Misha Saul. “Monogamous marriage is a powerful social technology that distributes wives more equitably. Without monogamy, successful men hoard wives and sire more children and there are […]
“Anglish is a kind of English which prefers native words over those borrowed from foreign languages. Anglish is linguistic purism applied to English.” ~ learn more
“The iconic wolf skull logo of Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), Yuga Labs’ premier nonfungible token (NFT) collection, was allegedly illegally trademarked without proper licenses. The image was originally released by a company specializing in drawing tutorials for children and […]
“A Valkyrie Investments report states that LN adoption is picking up speed in emerging markets like South America and Africa, primarily due to efforts of the LN mobile payment application Strike.” ~ learn more
Their 6th generation reactor, Trenta, uses a safer fuel than other reactors and produces and reliable fusion once every 10 minutes. Their 7th generation prototype intends to scale up the frequency of fusion to every second and, critically, generate usable […]