2023-09-08
More than 50% of ALL satellites are controlled by a single man: Elon Musk. Nationalize Starlink.
CNN
An excerpt from Walter Isaacson's Elon Musk biography: Musk cut off Starlink internet access near Crimea to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on a Russian fleet
Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company's Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast …
2021-04-01
I love Ted Chiang's writing, both fiction and essays. Here is a fantastic piece that takes down the concept of the Singularity. This is both comforting, but also a reminder that our problems are ours to solve, and we will not be saved by some AI god. https://www.newyorker.com/...
New Yorker
For the foreseeable future, technological innovation will be driven by humans, not self-improving AI systems, so there won't be a “singularity”
2020-03-30
It seems the Internet Archive's “National Emergency Library” has no rights to the books it is giving away and is potentially harming the authors who wrote those books. https://twitter.com/...
Ars Technica
As the Authors Guild voices its opposition to Internet Archive's National Emergency Library, a look at the legal issues related to digital book lending
publishers, authors, translators, booksellers—at a time when this could be mistaken for charity. https://twitter.com/... Maria DahvanaHeadley / @mariadahvana : Two of my books are ...