Robots v. robots
A family struggles amid health issues, financial turmoil, and an unsupportive state government: the year after a denied abortion. / ProPublica
Yesterday, SpaceX launched a lunar launder that, if successful, will be the first private spacecraft to land on the moon. / Quartz
See also: The legal and ethical tug of war over what can (or should) be left on the lunar surface. / Reuters
Oh and also: "Amazon joins Elon Musk's SpaceX in mission to destroy federal agency protecting workers." / Motherboard
On the history of "robots.txt," the file search companies agree dictate whether they'll crawl a site—but it's not legally binding, and AI companies are now ignoring it. / The Verge
Sora, OpenAI's new video generation model, is eye-poppingly impressive, but the research paper on it shows usefulness beyond "making cool videos." / OpenAI
"It was all—in air quotes—legal." This is insanity: the mothers in Guatemala who are fighting to get their trafficked and illegally adopted children back. / The Dial
A new bill introduced in the House would require ERCOT, which manages Texas's power grid, to connect to the nation's major grids. / CBS Austin
Naomi Fry: Trump's fundraising emails "offer a kind of D.J.T. greatest-hits package, wildly mixing and remixing favorite phrases and styles into a fevered Surrealist cut-up." / The New Yorker
"The closest instance I can find of Goodreads having a direct, discrete and quantifiable impact on a book's success happened back in 2015." / Misshelved
Brian Wilson's family is seeking a conservatorship, saying the musician is living with a neurocognitive disorder and is unable to care for himself. / Pitchfork
"Do not reply to teach me about capitalism or enshittification. I know." Warning signs for those who might reply to your social media posts. / Self Aware Soup
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