How the team behind Zelda made physics feel like magic - The Verge: Fun look at how the game designers made such a flexible video game.
Why Did Matt Farley Put a Song About Me on Spotify? - The New York Times (nytimes.com): I cannot tell if this is amazing or horrifying.
Tekken director asks why Americans want Waffle House to be a stage in Tekken 8 | PC Gamer: Culture shock.
They came for Florida's sun and sand. They got soaring costs and a culture war. (nbcnews.com): Huh, imagine that. States that provide no services, no protections, and count on culture war nonsense to keep their politicians in power are unpleasant for normal people.
StabilityAI chief resigns, raising doubts about AI start-up’s future | Ars Technica: I haven’t seen this get a ton of coverage, but it feels a little like someone either getting out before the bubble bursts or being forced out because they cannot meet unrealistic expectations.
(1) dramatic byrony - by Allison Epstein (substack.com): As usual, Allison is the funniest person on the internet. Go sign up for her newsletter f you haven’t already.
The AI Peer-Review Crisis (404media.co): I honestly think peer review is overrated, and AI appears to be trying to prove my point for me. This article also has an interesting point about the difficulty of AI detection systems to deal with non-native language speakers.
(1) Counting the Time Tax - by Don Moynihan (substack.com): Putting conditions on government services just means fewer people will use them because of the effort involved in working through an often arbitrary process designed to reject people.
Humans are not perfectly vigilant | by Cory Doctorow | Apr, 2024 | Medium: One of the best summations of the problem with AI as “helper”.
Could an Industrial Prehuman Civilization Have Existed on Earth before Ours? | Scientific American: Silurians!
Gambling has made ends of games miserable for college basketball benchwarmers - The Athletic: Gambling is a scourge.
Meta’s AI image generator can’t imagine an Asian man with a white woman - The Verge: More AI racism.
Opinion: Generative artificial intelligence is simply a waste of our time and money - The Globe and Mail: This is pretty spot-on.
A local news site was critical of Facebook—then Meta banned all their links (thehandbasket.co): This is not necessarily an easy problem to solve, but it is a very real problem that we need to deal with.
Enjoy the eclipse, everyone! Will be a light week likely as I am travelling.