Fully endorse this simple convention: ignore journal policies and post the full, final, typeset PDF's of your journal publications on your website for the world to enjoy.

The surge in AI-written speeches in Britain's House of Commons visualised:

Has anyone made a world map where we color all countries where people think that complaining a lot is a distinctive feature of their culture?

"French pensioners now have higher incomes than working-age adults" - extraordinary By John Burn-Murdoch

You can now buy TGV tickets within France on bahn.de, thereby avoiding the annoying SNCF website!

Weird how The Economist is selling its subscriptions at $249/year in the US but at $406/year in Europe (+63%).

Amazingly, I'm pretty sure that this chart excludes part of the spending on pensions, because in 2023 pensions were actually 13.1% of GDP in France and not 12% as this chart seems to imply just eyeballing it. The debate really is surreal though, because it's not hard to

In defense of OAI’s subpoena practice, Jason Kwon claims this is normal litigation stuff, and since Encode entered the Musk case, Nathan Calvin can’t complain. As a litigator-turned-OAI-restructuring-critic, I interrogate this claim:🧵

Claude can now run almost arbitrary software (for Claude Pro users)