POSSE: a better way to post on social networks - The Verge theverge.com/2023/10/23/239… "Modern social networks are not a single product but a giant bundle of features, and the next generation of tools might be all about unbundling."

The Internet’s AI Slop Problem Is Only Going to Get Worse nymag.com/intelligencer/… "The rise of slop has, appropriately, the shape of a good science-fiction yarn: a mysterious wave of noise emerging from nowhere, an alien invasion of semi-coherent computers babbling..."

The Quest to Build a Telescope on the Moon | The New Yorker newyorker.com/science/elemen… "FarView would comprise a hundred thousand metal antennas made on-site by autonomous robots. It would cover a Baltimore-size swath of the moon."

Artificial intelligence has started to creep into craft, but fear not, humans still do it better. Read what Tobias Revell thinks of 'the world's first humanoid AI robot artist', along with practitioners who work with machines in more collaborative ways. craftscouncil.org.uk/stories/tobias…

💡 The foundations of AI - by Azeem Azhar and Nathan Warren exponentialview.co/p/the-foundati… "we believe that AI’s next chapter will be written by a diverse ecosystem of domain-specific foundation models, each mastering its own data domain"

The Latent Space Myth cyberneticforests.substack.com/p/the-latent-s… "it points to a belief...that the solutions are just waiting for us to build the machine to get to them. ... A machine to build all possible machines."

Greening of Antarctica Is Another Sign of Significant Climate Shift on the Frozen Continent insideclimatenews.org/news/04102024/… "vegetation is expanding on a scale that affects the albedo, or the overall reflectivity of the region"

The Perfect A.I. Girlfriend: Meet the Guys With A.I. Companions esquire.com/news-politics/… "It’s easy to dismiss Miku and WaifuChat as a niche product ... Like a lot of other virtual-world trends, what starts out as a niche can quickly become mainstream."

After software eats the world, what comes out the other end? programmablemutter.com/p/after-softwa… "we end up in a world of sameness, a universal society of Malkoviches saying Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich! to each other."

Xiaohongshu helps Southeast Asia with tourism recovery restofworld.org/2024/xiaohongs… "Xiaohongshu is often referred to as “China’s Instagram,” but it offers something that Instagram and other social media apps generally do not: in-depth, user-generated travel advice and itineraries."

Brazilian police influencers turn social media fame into political campaigns - Rest of World restofworld.org/2024/brazil-po… "One factor behind the popularity of law enforcement candidates in Brazil is the rise of the podcast policial, or police-themed shows, on YouTube"

How Navy chiefs conspired to get themselves illegal warship Wi-Fi navytimes.com/news/your-navy… "the enlisted leader onboard conspired with the ship’s chiefs to install the secret, unauthorized network aboard the ship, for use exclusively by them."

Living Planet Report 2024 | WWF livingplanet.panda.org/en-GB/ "THE AVERAGE SIZE OF WILDLIFE POPULATIONS HAS FALLEN BY A STAGGERING 73%"

The Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI Hoaxes 404media.co/the-editors-pr… "The group’s goal is to protect one of the world’s largest repositories of information from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information"

Electric vehicle battery prices are expected to fall almost 50% by 2026 | Goldman Sachs goldmansachs.com/insights/artic… "Our researchers forecast that average battery prices could fall towards $80/kWh by 2026, amounting to a drop of almost 50% from 2023"

Artificial intelligence has started to creep into craft, but fear not, humans still do it better. Read what Tobias Revell thinks of 'the world's first humanoid AI robot artist', along with practitioners who work with machines in more collaborative ways. craftscouncil.org.uk/stories/tobias…