On August 15th, 2024, Cockroach Labs announced in [cockroach-proprietary] that they would be changing to a strictly proprietary model: on November 18th, 2024, the BSL code will be relicensed to be source-available but otherwise proprietary (that is, requiring a license to use). https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0508

Our Carrie Bradshaw index: where Americans can afford to live solo in 2024
I love that they call it the "Carrie Bradshaw" index!
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2024/08/14/our-carrie-bradshaw-index-where-americans-can-afford-to-live-solo-in-2024

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For your OH PRETTY entertainment
Crystals of Fats, Butter, Beef & Lard, Representing Butter, Oleomargarine & Butterine, 1886
https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/cc08hg88v

Burning Man still hasn’t sold out online, the organization hawked tickets in-person for the first time since 2011 and Facebook is flooded with people desperately trying to offload extra passes. https://sfstandard.com/2024/08/15/burning-man-tickets-resale-low-prices/

Generate your own acid bassline https://drakh.github.io/acid-generator/

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Artist win: AI lawsuit advances. https://venturebeat.com/ai/artists-celebrate-as-copyright-infringement-case-against-ai-image-generators-moves-forward/

"The rule prohibits businesses from buying reviews or testimonials, whether positive or negative, the suppression of reviews, as well as buying or selling fake indicators of social media influence. It also bans fake reviews written by AI and reviews written by employees of a company without disclosure." https://www.retaildive.com/news/ftc-prohibit-sale-purchase-fake-reviews/724333/

"What makes Indian cuisine so exquisite is its tendency to bring together lots of different ingredients with flavor molecules that don't overlap. That's quite different from how Western cuisine works — previous research has shown that it relies on pairing ingredients that, at the molecular level, share lots of similar flavor compounds."
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/26/394339284/how-snobbery-helped-take-the-spice-out-of-european-cooking

There are only three things that are difficult in programming:
1. Naming Things
2. Dates and Timezones
3. Knowing when to invalidate the cache
4. Off by one errors

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Run Diablo I in your browser
There goes YOUR day.
https://d07riv.github.io/diabloweb/

The Cody Enterprise put out a statement that framed the incident as an “advanced form of plagiarism” and said, “We now have a system set in place to catch AI-generated stories. We will have longer conversations about how AI-generated stories are not acceptable. We will hold our employees to a higher standard, and we stand by that.” https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2024/cody-enterprise-reporter-fake-quotes-artificial-intelligence

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A new paper [from November 2023] sets out recommendations to prevent us from over-empathising with AI chatbots to our detriment. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/249533/altering-language-help-deal-with-intelligence/

"Each of these films is one of the greatest according to just one voter in our recent Greatest Films of All Time poll." https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/lists/101-hidden-gems-greatest-films-youve-never-seen