Enero y febrero

This issue is dedicated to SolidGoldMagikarp.

En español

• Un agente infiltrado
• ¿Eres “cercano a entornos potencialmente peligrosos”? Estás despedido del aeropuerto

Books & comics

• Uzumaki by Junji Ito
• Go For It, Nakamura! by Syundei

Movies

• Turning Red (2022)
• Raw (2016)
• The Menu (2022)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)

Podcasts

• Criminal: Out of the Box
• Welcome to the land that no country wants
• Becoming a chatbot: my life as a real estate AI’s human backup

Computer science & math

• Google’s Fully Homomorphic Encryption Compiler — A Primer
• Remember when the IE 11 User-Agent forced Mozilla to freeze part of its User-Agent string (last week)
• I’m Now a Full-Time Professional Open Source Maintainer
• Using HDMI radio interference for high-speed data transfer

LLMs and other AI technology

• Chatbotocyplase 2, The botten-ing: A response to Scott Alexander on Chatbots
• ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
• SolidGoldMagikarp (plus, prompt generation)
  • “I’ve just found out that several of the anomalous GPT tokens (“TheNitromeFan”, “ SolidGoldMagikarp”, “ davidjl”, “ Smartstocks”, “ RandomRedditorWithNo”, ) are handles of people who are (competitively? collaboratively?) counting to infinity on a Reddit forum. I kid you not.
    • Redditors Are Counting to Infinity, One Number at a Time
• How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice

Politics & society

Economics

• Money laundering and AML compliance
• The Rot Economy
• Big Business’ Plan to Block Biden’s Ban on Noncompete Agreements
• Empathy Economics and Social Classes
• Financial World Celebrates Slowing Wage and Employment Growth in New Jobs Report
• The Best Tax System on Earth

Silicon Valley

• The End of the Silicon Valley Myth
• Inside Elon’s ‘Extremely Hardcore’ Twitter
• Advice for Less Experienced Software Engineers in the Current Tech Market

Misc

• The Emerging Fetish of Laying Alien Eggs Inside Yourself
• Held Hostage By Bedouins In Terra Nullius
• How My Consensual Nonconsent Orgies Work (note: not an endorsement, just an interesting read)
• How to Leak From the Supreme Court
• Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty