This Week’s Cuttings
Something is going on with the climate…and it’s starting to have consequences. But the market will provide, by raising costs. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-01-03/-270-billion-in-trade-rests-on-finding-a-fix-to-the-panama-canal
Tech continues to throw up new problems. A hardy perennial meets a new perennial: can AI solve the “nobody knows how to code this shit anymore’’ problem? The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore | PCMag
If you are getting increasingly frustrated with google search results there may be a reason why. How bad are search results? Let’s compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT (danluu.com)
And if you kind of feel that the right to free speech isn’t the right to be heard or to be given a platform (unless you build it yourself) or to dominate every thread on social media, which lets face it isn’t discussion or debate it’s just people shouting at each other then…https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/26/substack-turns-on-its-nazis-welcome- sign/
Some facts on immigration…
And some facts on crime…
Crime in the USA
A short primer and collection of basic descriptive facts
inquisitivebird.substack.com
Make of them what you will.
You know what could do with being less aggressive and patriarchal and more gentle and kind? Astronomy, that’s what! https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-language-of-astronomy-is-needlessly-violent-and-inaccurate/
The problem with this might be that the people that will buy at are more likely to want to see it than use it. What it really needs is an extended patronising rant about your driving skills and lack of manners.
