Weekend reading: "Metaverse" edition How Your Native Language Changes The Structure Of Your Brain (Stephen Luntz, IFLScience) Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse? (Paul Murray, New York Magazine)
Weekend reading: "Textpocalypse" edition Prepare for the Textpocalypse (Matthew Kirschenbaum, The Atlantic) The Untold Story Of Andrew Tate, The Internet’s Most Notorious Influencer (Tom Warren and Ikran Dahir, BuzzFeed) On the Trail of the Fentanyl King (Benoît Morenne, Wired)
Weekend reading: "Messed up hands" edition Why Are AI-Generated Hands So Messed Up? (Pranav Dixit, BuzzFeed) How Denmark’s Welfare State Became a Surveillance Nightmare (Gabriel Geiger, Wired) The Timeless Draw of Decorating Cookies (Joan Bailey, Smithsonian Magazine) Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT (Noam Chomsky, Ian Roberts and Jeffrey Watumull, The New York Times)
Weekend reading: "Why Not Mars" edition Why Not Mars (Maciej Cegłowski, Idle Words) Inside the Picture Perfect—and Highly Lucrative—Business of Book Styling (Chiara Dello Joio, Literary Hub) 'One billionaire at a time': inside the Swiss clinics where the super-rich go for rehab (Sophie Elmhirst, The Guardian)
Weekend reading: "Learn less, faster" edition AI Search Engines And The Quest For Ignorance (Marcus Hutchins, EscapingTech) ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web (Ted Chiang, The New Yorker) AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off (Lars Doucet, Fortress of Doors)