Supposing you brought the light inside the body
Though Biden's poll numbers are currently underwater, polls on incumbents are notoriously imperfect predictors of reelection. / NPR
How ultraviolet light—which is incredibly effective at killing viruses lurking indoors—might be used to stop the next pandemic before it starts. / Vox
After winning 33 straight matches at the Australian Open since 2018, Novak Djokovic's streak comes to an end at the hands of Jannik Sinner. / Tennis
"If anyone can get the US government to take deepfake porn seriously, it's Swifties." / The Guardian
See also: Legislators serious about taking on deepfake porn will face free-speech battles, and any enforcement by social-media companies is a whole other challenge. / Rolling Stone
"If you plant those fucks in institutions or systems or platforms or, gods forbid, interest rates...you will run out of fucks." A unified theory of fucks. / A Working Library
The bluster around new AI assistants ignores the pleasures of learning, and assumes humans vastly prefer consuming to thinking. / Internal Exile
John Herrman: With Chrome adding AI writing tools, "we have the technology...for a web that publishes itself. Will anyone want to read it?" / Intelligencer
Case in point: 404 Media says AI is eating its articles and destroying fundability. / 404 Media
Someone snatched up the domain name for beloved blog The Hairpin, and has propped up a zombified version of the old site's content alongside AI spam. / Business Insider
The race to preserve Arlene Gottfried's vast archive of NYC street photography from the 1970s and '80s. / The New York Times [+]
"People will recognize me but not where they know me from. And they swear that we went to school together." An oral history of the Disney Channel Original Movie. / Morning Brew
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