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You can see everything Even after OpenAI banned her account, a school shooter continued planning her attack by asking ChatGPT how to evade moderation: “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.” (Content warning) / Mother Jones Google seems pretty certain the small data center it’s launching into orbit next week will fail, and that the technology is still a few years off. / The New York Times [$] See also: Even as Starlink satellites pollute our skies, measuring the speed of their sink rates provides a pretty useful planetary barometer. / Spaceweather “Once you have adopted the worldview of the haint, you become hungry. You begin to hunt your own people.” What is the point of Gavin Newsom? / Coyote Now that Apple has entered the record-everything era, you should now expect that you will be spied on and you can’t opt out. / The Verge [$] “We will be called girls until the day we retire without a pension.” How Karen Nussbaum’s 1970s grassroots 9to5 movement inspired the namesake film. / Literary Hub What does it mean to walk into a job interview with an iced coffee? And depending on who you ask, is hot coffee a better look? / The Wall Street Journal [$] If you’ve ever wondered what a mac-and-cheese-flavored cream soda would taste like, this is your time. / Canoe “I don’t think the answer is to pretend everything is wonderful.” Taking Warren Zevon’s advice to “enjoy every sandwich.” / The Enthusiast If you enjoy these headlines, please join us as a Sustaining Member to support what we do and unlock access to paywalled links. Highly intentional art at the museum of time-based art; entirely accidental art in New York’s decaying subways. / MOTBA, The New York Times [$] How Emil Bisttram’s surreal paintings became ads to draw scientists to Los Alamos in the 1950s. / Artnet “Tinnitus taught me that silence is never actually empty, and I started noticing that everywhere.” On John Cage, Monet, and the wonder of unfilled spaces. / Desire Paths A site dedicated to the many Minecraft YouTube videos that get fewer than 100 views. / Minecraft Roulette What’s SeaWorld’s romantasy-themed Halloween event like? “I wouldn’t say it was scary… but it did leave me with a good feeling—I guess you could say a sexy feeling.” / WIRED Beyond his playing, no small part of the allure of Glenn Gould is Gould himself, as seen in a pair of 1959 documentaries. / The Hedgehog Review, YouTube

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