Grab a cuppa and enjoy the weird!
- A macroscopic amount of matter has been put in a quantum superposition.
- US reservoirs are evaporating more quickly because of climate change.
- Paleontologists discover 52-million-year-old bat.
- 5 facts about how fierce wolves were turned into ancient pets (Video).
- Bizarre object 10 million times brighter than the sun defies physics, NASA says.
- Europe’s JUICE mission about to launch to explore Jupiter.
- Zoom in on Mars like never before with this epic 3D map of the Red Planet. Wot, no Cydonia pyramids? Lame!
- The real star of this aerial selfie isn’t the Chinese balloon—it’s the U-2 spy plane.
- Looks like there will be another Congressional hearing on UFOs later this month.
- Dr. Helané Wabeh, Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, delivered a lecture last year at the University of West Georgia titled “The Science of Channeling.”
- Elon Musk —one of the signers of the open letter asking to ban AI research for six months— reportedly bought thousands of GPUs for a Twitter AI project.
- Cory Doctorow: “The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble.”
- Ted Chiang: “ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the Web.”
- Tokamak Energy unveils images of fusion power plant slated for 2030s.
- Mayan ball game scoreboard thought to be over 1,000 years old found in Mexico.
- Red Pill of the Day: Motorist in China drives with massive swarm of bees inside car. Not everyone should take their pets for a ride.
Quote of the Day:
There’s a saying, popularized by Fredric Jameson, that it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. It’s no surprise that Silicon Valley capitalists don’t want to think about capitalism ending. What’s unexpected is that the way they envision the world ending is through a form of unchecked capitalism, disguised as a superintelligent AI. They have unconsciously created a devil in their own image, a boogeyman whose excesses are precisely their own.
Ted Chiang
