Linkage

• The Onion Looks Back On Bill Belichick’s 24,000-Year Reign Of Darkness (The Onion) Truly, America's Finest News Source.™
• Why Large Language Models Will Not Understand Human Language  (Jeremy Hadfield) Because they are fucking parrots whose goal is to fool people into imagining that they have language.
• Want a Cure for Doomscrolling? Try P.G. Wodehouse (Common Reader) The Britcom version is pretty good too.
• New Baltimore Sun owner insults staff, says paper should mimic Fox45 (The Baltimore Banner) Turns out the that the new owner is as much of a horror show as was predicted:
• How Walmart’s Financial Services Became a Fraud Magnet (ProPublica) If they treat their workers like shit, they treat their customers like shit.  Walmart is living proof of this.
• Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles  (404 Media) Enshittification in action.
• Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations | Ars Technica So, we have an answer to the question, "Does bigfoot shit in the woods?"  The answer is, "Nope, it was a bear."
• How a 27-year-old busted the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymity (Ars Technica) It turns out that a distributed ledger is still a ledger preserving all of the transactions.

Mark Rober once again puts an animal through a maze. This time, it is an Octopus: