One day until taxes are due!
Better to be Forgotten Than Disposable - by John Warner (substack.com): Nice rumination on why people bother to write books.
Google Is Killing Retro Dodo & Other Independent Sites: How Google is literally destroying the web for its own short term profit.
Q&A: Comics Legend Mark Waid Still Believes a Man Can Fly (substack.com): Love this take on Superman and writing in general. You should subscribe to Cole’s newsletter if you are at all interested in the creative process.
Cool Gray City of Tech Authoritarians: Balaji's dark vision for San Francisco (parallelmirror.com): Some of our tech overlords seem to not understand that term is a joke. Authoritarianism is creeping in from everywhere.
WEBTOON Originals contract draws criticism from creators (comicsbeat.com): Be careful the contracts you sign. And enshitification seems to come for everything.
A new bill wants to reveal what’s really inside AI training data - The Verge: This is a small step in the right direction, but at a minimum it should be made retroactive.
Why Is Warren Beatty Still Showing up as Dick Tracy? (collider.com): Revenge is a dish best served in a silly, yellow overcoat.
Models All The Way Down (knowingmachines.org): Excellent look at how AI modelling is dependent upon other AI models and the problems that causes. (Link submitted by reader Warren. Thank you, Warren!)
Opinion | Arizona abortion ban: The Time Travelers’ Wives - The Washington Post: Alexandra Petri is a national treasure, worth the subscription cost alone.
Is Google's AI Actually Discovering 'Millions of New Materials?' (404media.co): This is disappointing, if not necessarily surprising.
Theater Review: ‘Macbeth (an undoing)’ (vulture.com): This is what reviews should be: taking the work on its own terms and asking if it lives up to the expectations it sets.
Louisiana Supreme Court Makes It Harder For Church Abuse Survivors to Hold Priests Accountable | Balls and Strikes: This decision is evil, a cartoonish elevation of property rights over all others in the service of protecting the powerful.
America’s roads and bridges to get $830 million for a climate makeover - The Verge: We need to do more, a lot more. But starting now is better than not starting now.
Have a great week, everyone!