Top Ten for February 20, 2023
The NYT’s Jason Farago on the new Vermeer show
On Yemen: What Have You Left Behind? by Bushra Al-Maqtari and Isa Blumi talks to The War Nerd – Blumi’s book is Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World
Commercial pressures warp modern documentaries
I have no mouth and I must scream – one of the better summaries of the creature emerging from Microsoft’s use of ChatGPT
Open source development is broken and personally destructive – The Register summarizes and provides context
Decarbonization: The long view, trends and transience, net zero – also Mark Mills warns of materials constraint on the green energy transition (though in the case of cobalt the constraint might have lifted)
Disinformation on behalf of clients: The Story Killers – no surprises here (who could have imagined DCMA takedowns would be weaponized) but glad this is getting attention
Dark energy comes from black holes which “gain mass by coupling to the expanding universe” – someone’s due a Nobel for this
A much better explanation for the Nord Stream 2 sabotage than Hersh’s