What’s your Halloween costume? Mine is the same as every year: Hungry artist seeking ways to hunt down vampire billionaires.
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman brings out the tiniest violin in the world in honor of all the countless jobs he’s helped to disappear.
- Open AI: Sorry we can’t cure cancer or solve the energy crisis. Best we can do is give you a new browser that will totally not steal all your personal info or search history *pinky swear*
- Legendary comics writer/magician Grant Morrison’s views on AI are… conflicting.
- The ‘996’ culture is taking a hold among Silicon Valley startups. ‘Faustian’ would be a better name.
- Peter Thiel shows that the madness of the poor man’s is the rich man’s eccentricity.
- Wikipedia is the one piece of Internet real estate Elon cannot own—that’s why he wants to replace it.
- Elon is at risk of losing the juicy moon lander contract from NASA.
- The Smithsonian might have to cut space shuttle Discovery into pieces to get it to Texas.
- David Chase is preparing a limited series about MK-Ultra for HBO.
- Red dwarfs aren’t uninhabitable; we’re just impatient.
- “Alien mothership” hypothesis about to have key test as interstellar object 3I/ATLAS hits solar conjunction and perihelion.
- Tangentially Speaking goes for another round with ‘recovering astrophysicist’ Tom Murphy, who turned away from the hard sciences and discovered mysticism along the way.
- Where Did the Road Go? holds a ‘debate’ between Joshua Cutchin and skeptic Jon Michael.
- Did Nefertiti wear King Tut’s iconic mask first? Scientists reignite debate.
- The mystery of the ancient Roman gravestone discovered in a family’s backyard in New Orleans has been solved.
- Red Pill of the Day: Royal crown damaged in brazen Louvre heist found lying on the ground outside the museum. Feels almost like a syncromystic omen in response to last week’s No Kings protests.
Thanks to Greg and Rick.
Quote of the Day:
We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
Miguel de Unamuno
