Links August 2026

August 23, 2026| etbe| 0 Comment| 02:05

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This YouTube video about the Cashier Girl Meme is interesting in the context of AI systems that generate images of people and can communicate with people, hotter than any real human is an achievable goal [1].

Stand Up Maths has an interesting Youtube video about LLMs solving maths problems which I highly recommend watching (it does not require any real knowledge of maths), I think this opens the door to attacks on well established cryptologic systems [2].

Adam Conover made an insightful YouTube video about how and why Hollywood is now unable to make good sitcoms and why this is bad for society [3].

Sky Croeser wrote an interesting and insightful blog post about topics covered at the “Digital and sexual citizenship in an age of social media bans: Interrogating the rights of children and young people conference” [4].

Zane wrote a very informative blog post about reverse engineering a trojaned Android projector with Claude Code [5]. We need much better security on home networks to break the business model for this sort of thing.

Renee Stonebraker’s article “Puritans Wouldn’t Eat Pussy, So They Invented the Western” has a lot of interesting information about early days of colonising the US, and not much about eating pussy [6].

IFLScience has an interesting article about brinicles, icicles of brine that form under sea ice [7].

Nautilus has an interesting article about the Silurian Hypothesis [8].

The Conversation has an intersting article about the pros and cons of no-till farming [9].

Cold War is a 365tomorrows story about bio-warfare which raises several disturbing possibilities we need to guard against [10].

Scott Santens wrote an insightful article describing how a land value tax would reduce rent and solve the housing shortages [11].

Positive News has an interesting article about using OnlyFans to teach people about climate change [12].

The Conversation has an interesting article about cultural safety in healthcare, sounds good, and while we are at it lets deal with sexism [13].

Doctoreww has an interesting web page about ways of displaying different strings to humans and machines, this could result in you running a different command to what you thought you copied from a web site or defeating tools designed to block hostile content [14].

Cory Doctorow wrote an insightful article “Commentary Hell is Other People” about the way rich people want to use AI to replace all people [15]. Also psychologists who help rich people accept being greedy are worthy of a Luigi

The research article “Worship me at the office altar: Why narcissistic leaders resist remote work” is interesting, yet another reason to get rid of narcissistic executives [16].

Renew Economy has an interesting article about clean up costs for mining (which is usually left for the government to pay) and how this could impact renewable energy production facilities [17].

Elvira Bary wrote an insightful article on the Russian financial collapse that is happening now [18].

The Guardian has an interesting article about Afro-American women who travel to South Korea for healthcare because of problems with racism and sexism in American hospitals [19].

The Conversation has an interesting article about the potential for disabled people to be more productive in space than non-disabled people [20].

Krebs has an interesting article about LG banning residential proxy code from apps after the LG store was found to have such code in 42% of it’s apps [21].

Robert B Shpiner wrote an insightful article for The Guardian about the death of democracy in the US [22].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCn7bA1eg_0
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ8KThKAfbs
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpSghW4J3ws
[4] https://tinyurl.com/28b6jclu
[5] https://zanestjohn.com/blog/reing-with-claude-code
[6] https://tinyurl.com/2y2b6a58
[7] https://tinyurl.com/2awjppn5
[8] https://tinyurl.com/2y89gftt
[9] https://tinyurl.com/2b27vo8o
[10] https://365tomorrows.com/2024/03/27/cold-war-2/
[11] https://tinyurl.com/2aqkn4z6
[12] https://tinyurl.com/2dy5vy8g
[13] https://tinyurl.com/25rld7v3
[14] https://doctoreww.github.io/EvilFontTool/
[15] https://tinyurl.com/2c2guu89
[16] https://tinyurl.com/27kq4qqu
[17] https://tinyurl.com/2blp477w
[18] https://tinyurl.com/27aybgge
[19] https://tinyurl.com/29covbrp
[20] https://tinyurl.com/27qdj6co
[21] https://tinyurl.com/22pxub8v
[22] https://tinyurl.com/25zf4hnp

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