ELSM - Capsule Sports, Tiger Cubs, Frites, and Who We Is

Easy Like Sunday Morning | 10.27.24 | TNaj

October 27, 2024

Sit back, play something soothing, sip your coffee/tea, and peruse le reads. We’ll have an update/actual dispatch coming tomorrow, then we’re off until next week. Getting out of Dodge for a hot minute before the insane election maelstrom consumes us all. Find time to walk in the sun!

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1xBet Streams Thousands of Secret Amateur Sports Games (Bellingcat) This is WILD. Amateur sports, streamed from secret locations, with no guarantees the matches aren’t being fixed. It’s like if FanDuel, DraftKings, and your local bookies united and created the Matrix.

Without Knowledge or Consent (Propublica) Gun companies shared data in worse and more insane ways than TikTok, Facebook, or any company you can imagine. But are we moving to ban them from the USA? Nah.

The Tiger Cub (Emancipator) JD Vance was mentored and shaped by Amy Chua, the Tiger Mom. If that doesn’t explain quite a bit of our nation’s current unmooring from reality, ask your favorite high-achieving millennial to explain it to you.

Donald Trump is a stochastic terrorist (KeepTrack) I said it before and I’ll say it again. We are not prepared for the mushrooming violence that will occur if DJT loses and doesn’t go quietly. Legally, clinically, or epidemiologically…this country is not ready for what we are about to experience.

Reflections on Palantir (Nabeel S. Qureshi) Massive discussion of what makes Palantir great by a veteran. Also helps explain why it’s terrible if you can squint and see what is only theoretical about what this person experienced tangibly.

Google AI misleads in 43% of finance related searches (The College Investor) Don’t take financial advice from AI yet. But if you read this, you knew this.

Who Is We (Deadspin) The spate of prominent newspapers forgoing endorsements came with a smattering of Very Serious editorials peppered with phrases like “We believe” and “We would be concerned.” Forcing those who use this phrasing to define who the “We” is, would be critical. Deadspin reminds us that who they think We is, can be very different than who We represents, to those reading.

Why Are French Fries called ‘French’? (Philosophy and Beyond) I had no idea, and most of my guesses weren’t even close. Lots of good stuff here, great for water-cooler conversation…if we still have those these days?

What comes after LLMs for VC investment (VC Cafe) Investors are already moving on from LLMs, now that the ceiling of their functionality is being probed. If you’re tired of hearing about them being the “next big thing,” read this so you have ammunition to fire back at the bar.

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Disability Rights are Technology Rights (EFF) We will all be disabled at some point in our lives, not just at the end. Accessibility is a conversation for everyone, not just those differently-abled. The Electronic Frontier Foundation unpacks this idea, collating with tech and its assorted BS. We once again, deserve better.

Leaving you with Ananda Shankar and his wonderful Streets of Calcutta. Those with brain worms might remember it from a completely unhinged Nutrigrain bar commercial.

Keep groovin’tn