- T-shirt Worn by Taylor Swift Sparks a $2M Windfall for Sea Otters
- “It turns out playing God is neither difficult nor expensive,” is the catchy lede of this article on editing genes with CRISPR, Editing Nature To Fix Our Failures, that everyone I follow has already posted.
- Got a few hours to kill? Check out the Space Exploration Logo Archive. – via kottke
- Imagine getting burned by the Pope.
- Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents
- Score one for the good guys: Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules
- Research on 6,000 older adults reveals that optimistic people are up to 50% less likely to develop weak grip strength and lose mobility.
- Any golfer should be able to relate to this essay by Gabby Herzig: I made a 12 during the biggest golf tournament of my life. Here’s what I learned.
- Who doesn’t love a good story about a cursed Egyptian mummy? (Related: The Met is having its first Egyptian exhibit in over a decade.)
- It’s just tech, everything doesn’t have to become some weird religion that you beat people over the head with, or gamble the entire stock market on. – from The Majority AI View, a fantastic essay by Anil Dash.
The beatings will continue until morale improves:
- Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions
- There is a special place in hell for those who use children as pawns in their quest for power.
- I don’t understand why the headline on this article about a convicted felon isn’t simply Maliciously Incompetent, Aggressively Ignorant, Lying Buffoon Lies Again.
- North Carolina Elections Chief Demands Voters’ Full Social Security Numbers from DMV
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning. – Winston Churchill