Good haul this week.
The Hidden Cost Of Getting Published (substack.com): Maybe I want to remain a failed writer….
May heat wave exposes myth of fossil fuel reliability as Texas coal- and gas-fired generators fail early season performance test | IEEFA: Turns out renewable energy sources are more reliable in extreme conditions than fossil fuel generators.
The Yellowstone supervolcano destroyed an ecosystem but saved it for us | Ars Technica: Science is cool. And deadly. But mostly cool.
window of flopportunity - by Allison Epstein (substack.com): I wish Allison had been my history teacher in High School.
Escape From the Box - The American Prospect: Detailed look at how car dealerships scam you.
First known TikTok mob attack led by middle schoolers tormenting teachers | Ars Technica: Kids have always been little shits. The internet gives them the power to be massive little shits.
How Celebrity Book Clubs Actually Work (esquire.com): How the Big Three book clubs decide what boos are going to be succesful.
Inside the 'Nightmare' Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town | TIME: The residents, medical professionals, and law enforcement know the bitcoin mining facility is violating the law and causing severe heath problems with their noise but cannot do anything to stop them because regulations are Bad. Better the little people suffer.
The #1 AI can't teach basic stuff like reading (substack.com): I am once again begging you to not let AI screw up education.
The Avengers Cast Reassembles to Dub Film in Lakota Language - Reactor (reactormag.com): This is very cool.
Oregon county seeks to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for extreme heat | Ars Technica: IN a sane country, we would just take steps to prevent climate change from wreaking havoc. In America, we leave it to the lawyers.
Doctors Use A.I. Chatbots to Help Fight Insurance Denials - The New York Times (nytimes.com): Huh. Maybe imitative AI does have some good uses.
Early Apple tech bloggers are shocked to find their name and work have been AI-zombified - The Verge: Never mind. Imitative AI till sucks.
Opinion | Two essential reforms to fix the Supreme Court - The Washington Post: A bit of commonsense to make the Court a part of the system instead of superior to it.
She Made $10,000 a Month Defrauding Apps like Uber and Instacart. Meet the Queen of the Rideshare Mafia | WIRED: What is kid of amazing about this story is how the app companies, who clearly benefited from this fraud and who clearly did little to combat it until they received bad press, got away with no punishment. In fact, they got to claim they were harmed.
“Superhuman” Go AIs still have trouble defending against these simple exploits | Ars Technica: AI knowledge is fragile. Go far enough outside the bounds and it cannot react.
Partial automated driving systems don’t make driving safer, study finds | Ars Technica: The headline is a bit misleading — they are talking about lane keep assist system. But it is still fascinating that such systems don’t seem to help make us safer despite the intuitive sense that they would.
PySkyWiFi: completely free, unbelievably stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights | Robert Heaton: This man is very clever and hilariously cheap.
Have a great week everyone!