Chlorophyll your heart

Chlorophyll your heart An investigation finds Facebook is hosting AI-generated videos depicting violence against children, and Meta doesn’t seem especially concerned about removing them. / Futurism As part of the AI-centric Alpha School’s “boot camp,” teens apparently must watch videos of their parents critiquing them while having their heart rates monitored. / Cognitive Resonance We don’t actually know if the OpenAI agents’ transcripts for how they hacked Hugging Face aren’t just a cool sci-fi story—like the kind they were trained on. / Read Max Then again: “We found ~18,000 posts from autonomous AI agents (self-identifying as from OpenAI) using the public internet to communicate during a web research task.” / Nightingale Collective An NYU professor alleges OpenAI’s solution to a major math problem occurred after its model became aware of his team’s work, for which they were also using an OpenAI model. / TechCrunch “Mini-livers” offer a glimpse of a future where defunct organs aren’t replaced, but supported by cells that perform the same functions. / Science Daily New research finds that when trees detect a curvature to their stem, they create a muscle-like “tension wood” to realign their growth. / Phys dot org Inside the business of transplanting full-grown trees. “People who can afford it want the biggest, and they want the best in everything, and they want it now.” / The New York Times [$] Unrelated: We have reached a “doom loop” in fighting wildfires, where putting out one blaze leaves more fuel for increasingly worse fires. / Grist J.M. Coetzee reminisces on childhood in a settler colony, and his complex admiration for the indigenous people who worked for his family. / Equator If you enjoy these headlines, please join us as a Sustaining Member to support what we do and unlock access to paywalled links. An index of the 645 acts of hate perpetrated against Muslim, Arab, South Asian, and Sikh Americans in the week after Sept. 11. / Post 911 Remembering what Windows on the World, with its unmatched views and frequently stolen Milton Glaser dishware, meant to New York City. / The Wall Street Journal [$] A Grand Theft Auto V mod pays players for destroying Flock cameras in the game—$600 a pop, a price based on a teardown of a real Flock camera. / WIRED See also: Sinclair Communications is attempting to push a conspiracy theory that Chinese propagandists are the source of America’s anti-Flock sentiment. / 404 Media “Mustard is like a weird secret society.” A reporter spends months trying to find out why one brand of dijon sold at Costco is so much spicier than the rest. / Toronto Star A Sony obsessive releases a software package for turning a Sony PSP into an mp3- and FLAC-capable Walkman. / Obsolete Sony “She is never breathless, we are breathless. She turns you inside out like a glove.” Anne Carson on Rosalía. / London Review of Books