Linkage

• We’ve won our lawsuit over Matt Hancock’s £23m NHS data deal with Palantir (openDemocracy) I’d sooner give my personal medical data to Dick Cheney than I would to Peter Thiel’s spy machine.
• Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT (New York Times) While better known of his radical politics, Chomsky’s day job is as one of the world’s foremost linguist and cognitive scientist. He understands what ChatGPT is, and it ain’t language any more than a parrot has language.
• Growing Banking Crisis Caused by Contagion from Silicon Valley Bank Failure Going to Get Worse, Inevitable Due to Federal Reserve Policies (Better Markets) An explanation of how the Fed’s aggressive rate increases are threatening to create a plethora of bank failures. (What I mentioned earlier, only better written)
• Nord Stream Mystery: Tanker Minerva Julie Spent 7 Days Near Attack Site (Business Insider) Drip, drip, drip. I don’t know where Sy Hersh’s scoop is going to lead, but it’s definitely leading somewhere.
• What’s In a Full English Breakfast? Don’t Ask the English (Wall Street Journal) This is the most wholesome provocation to fisticuffs I have heard from in a while.
• ‘Orchestrated PR campaign’: how skinny jab drug firm sought to shape obesity debate (The Guardian) When drug companies say tat they need their obscene profits to invest in the future, this is what they invest in.
• When cats go goblin mode, these owners take pet-proofing to extremes (Washington Post) I, for one, welcome out feline overlords.
• Users, advertisers — we are all trapped in the ‘enshittification’ of the internet | John Naughton | The Guardian Cory Doctorow’s neologism has made it to the mainstream, or at least the Grauniad.
• 10 Bizarre Moments From a Real Wedding in a Taco Bell Metaverse (Gizmodo) I no longer want to live on this planet.

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