Next Draft - Humanity's Last Stand
Irony may be on its last legs, but it's not dead yet. This was a year in which tech news was dominated by stories about the ways artificial intelligence is quickly assuming tasks formerly carried out by humans. This seems to include many a homework assignment. If we're to believe the trends, humanity's last stand could also be humanties' last stand. So maybe it's hopeful that when internet users wanted to find out more about this new, life-changing technology, they went to the most human of all sites: Wikipedia. AP: Wikipedia, wrapped. Here are 2023’s most-viewed articles on the internet’s encyclopedia. "English Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views this year, according to numbers released Tuesday by the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit behind the free, publicly edited online encyclopedia. And the most popular article was about ChatGPT." It could be worse. The second most read article was Deaths in 2023. 2Avant Bard"'It’s arguably the most important secular book in western culture,” Fernie told the Guardian from his University of Birmingham headquarters. Were it not for the First Folio, we wouldn’t have half of Shakespeare’s plays today.' That includes Macbeth, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, the Taming of the Shrew and more than a dozen other works among the 37 tragedies, comedies and histories in the folio, less than half of which were published in the Bard’s own lifetime." The Guardian on one of the first (and most important) examples of self-publishing. Shakespeare’s First Folio: State Library of NSW takes the Bard’s ‘radical’ 400-year-old book out of the vault. 3The Jury Selection Election"We know what Trump would like to do with that power, because he’s said so out loud. He is driven by self-interest and revenge, in that order. He wants to squelch the criminal charges now pending against him, and he wants to redeploy federal prosecutors against his enemies, beginning with President Joe Biden. The important question is how much of that agenda he could actually carry out in a second term." Short answer: A lot. And it would start with the firing of Jack Smith and replacing a jury of one's peers with a jury of one. Barton Gellman has gotten Trump as right as any journalist. The Atlantic (Gift Article): How Trump Gets Away With It. 4Quiet as It's KeptMass and brutal rape was part of the plan and was used as a weapon on October 7. Just the lede in this article from the NYT is horrific. (Warning: The descriptions here are disturbing. But not as disturbing as the other images included in these articles.) "The body of one woman had 'nails and different objects in her female organs.' In another house, a person’s genitals were so mutilated that 'we couldn’t identify if it was a man or a woman.'" The world's governing bodies have been largely silent on this issue. Accounts of Sexual Violence by Hamas Are Aired Amid Criticism of U.N. (One could argue that these events have been overshadowed by Israel's incredibly aggressive war effort and the deeply troubling humanitarian crisis in Gaza. But there was silence before Israel launched its response.) 5Extra, ExtraFDA For Effort? "One might assume the US drug regulator, which dates to the 19th century Division of Chemistry, leads the mission of testing drugs. In fact, the FDA resists the idea of grading drugs by quality and rarely conducts tests of its own." There are probably a lot of details you didn't know in this Bloomberg Gift Article: The Pentagon Wants to Root Out Shoddy Drugs. The FDA Is In Its Way. And an interesting look at the drug industry from a patient's perspective from Neil Barsky: I reversed my type 2 diabetes. Here’s how I did it. 6Bottom of the NewsOne lede can't possibly define an entire era. But that doesn't mean it can't try. CNN: "A 30-year-old YouTube creator and former Olympic athlete was sentenced Monday to six months in federal prison for staging a small plane crash for social media clicks." Get a copy of my 📕, Please Scream Inside Your Heart, or grab a 👕 in the Store. |
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