The New YorkerMaybe my brain is replaying my life now because I have a terminal diagnosis, and all these memories will be lost. Maybe it’s because I don’t have much time to make new ones, and some part of me is sifting through the sands.A pretty devastating personal reflection on leukemia from Tatiana...

BBCHernández was found guilty in March 2024 of conspiring to import cocaine into the US, and of possessing machine guns. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison.Bombing boats from Venezuela without any (publicly released) evidence, while pardoning someone who was tried and convicted of doing the exact same thing they...

HarvardThe dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.Four hundred thousand kids dead in less than a year. But hey, the Trump administration saved less than...

Short of the WeekIncredible animated student short film from France. Produced in a stunning knitted stop-motion animation style to create some beautiful visuals. And if you stick around for the whole thing, it gets pretty deep.

MediumLeCun thinks we need completely different approaches, including what he calls “world models,” before we can talk seriously about AGI. His timeline? At least a decade, probably much longer.I’m obviously no expert, but I’ve been saying this for years. LLM’s are not a path to AGI or any sort of intelligence. They...

Manu MorealeNew newsletter that I’m excited for from Manu kicking off in the new year.

FuturismCoca-Cola is back with another series of AI-generated ads to herald the holidays — and they look just as bad as they did last year.What an expensive and ugly ad. People keep saying “ThIs iS ThE WoRsT AI WiLl EvEr bE,” and sure, but also, it’s absolutely terrible and pointless. Why would you ever want to take...

Apple MusicDidn’t catch this yesterday, but what a great three song set from White with Eminem joining for the second, rapping ‘Till I Collapse over Hello Operator.

*FTBased on a total cumulative deal value of up to $1.8tn, OpenAI is heading for a data centre rental bill of about $620bn a year — though only a third of the contracted power is expected to be online by the end of this decade.The charts on this article are wild. I believe they’ve raised over $60 billion so far, so...

SF StandardWhen I pressed Foody on his utopian vision, and why he thinks tech companies won’t hoard the spoils of the AI boom, he waved his hand and described a future in which everyone has $10 million in purchasing power, lives in a nice apartment, and works only if they want to.Oh yeah, because every 22-year-old...

DefectorThe people who own and populate the sports discourse have every professional incentive not to “freak out about sports betting,” because the vast majority of them are for all practical purposes employees of sports betting concerns. That, not to put too fine a point on it, is the precise reason why a question...

BandcampI featured this on yesterday’s media guide on Foofaraw, but wanted to give it another shout-out here. It’s fantastic and every penny goes to Defending our Neighbors.