As a longtime admirer of CoinDesk’s journalism and ethos, I was disgusted that their new owners, Bullish — more like Bullshit, am I right? — pulled a story about Justin Sun. Now top editorial staff have been fired.
Have you ever wondered who makes the tunes for Spotify’s “ghost artists?” Real musicians, including a jazz artist interviewed by Liz Pelly, in an excerpt from her upcoming book, Mood Machine. I wonder how long that gig will last...
[Harper's Magazine]
A design has been removed from Teepublic because of a copyright complaint from UnitedHealth, Gizmodo reports. The design is a drawing of Luigi Mangione in a heart, and doesn’t involve any UnitedHealth logos.
I imagine they’ll take this down shortly, but in the meantime... test.
The shooter had a message, and the internet was happy to spread it.
Henry Farrell, co-author of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy, notices that LLMs do an awful lot of things done by middle management. What if the wrong people are worried that AI will take their jobs?
[www.programmablemutter.com]
A fake presidential pardon explains why you can’t trust robots with the news.
The auto manufacturers? The insurers? The NHTSA just fell down on the job? Could be that more people just drive with their brights on all the time. Personally, I think we should send all of them to the Hague to get this sorted out.
Shout out to r/fuckyourheadlights, a bastion of sanity.
[www.theringer.com]
Matt Levine on some fintech weirdness is pretty sublime. Turns out old-school banks have some advantages, specifically that they are not going to simply lose track of your money.
[Bloomberg]