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Sunday Good Reads for April 6th, 2025 [1]
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Date: 2025-04-06
Smaller than usual this week. Either I have been busy or the world has been boring.
Why do LLMs make stuff up? New research peers under the hood. - Ars Technica: Good look at one mechanism driving the creation of bullshit in imitative AI.
danger! at the dry goods store - by Allison Epstein: The funnest person on the internet is back! Go buy her book!
ESPN’s Pat McAfee and others amplified a false rumor. A teenager’s life was ‘destroyed’ - The Athletic: That McAfee hasn’t already been fired demonstrates the moral rot at the heart of our media.
Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate: Performative? Yes — but performances sometimes get people’s attention.
Why Blackhawks captain Nick Foligno is planting a garden he’ll likely never see bloom - The Athletic: Nice look at a player at the end of his career and the choices he has to make.
T-Mobile Shows Users the Names, Pictures, and Exact Locations of Random Children: My more cynical side, i.e. the correct side, wonders if this is a bug related to allowing law enforcement to search for people, likely without warrants. My really cynical side wonders it this is a big related to allowing marketers access to information about the location of children in order to target ads to them.
Big brands are spending small sums on X to stay out of Musk’s crosshairs - Ars Technica: The US is a gangster state.
Fighting Means Fighting - by Brian Beutler - Off Message: Beutler is dead on here. Democrats have to be willing to fight. Any one who does — form rightwing to left wing and everywhere in between — will be rewarded by their voters and make the next fight easier.
MLB players won’t even pay to read this article: ‘You stay rich by being cheap’ - The Athletic: I really appreciate Derek Law deep understanding of how the strawberry cartel is ripping him off and his complete inability to act on that information.
AI giants reject government’s approach to solving copyright row: OpenAI and google insist that there be no payments and no way to opt out or CHINA!!! CHINA. I TELL YOU!!! will beat us in the game of overpriced, no-market-having, money-losing, job-destroying, imitative AI. These people are just thieves.
How Much Of Your Car Is Really Made In The USA? | Carscoops: The answer will probably surprise you.
In My Country by Thomas Ha : Clarkesworld Magazine – Science Fiction & Fantasy: Great, if depressing story.
Monkeys are better yodelers than humans, study finds - Ars Technica: Monkeys out here gunning for the Swiss.
Have the best possible week, everyone.
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