- Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by "High Demand" (Futurism) This is probably because bandwidth is falling because of network congestion. The tech is spectacularly ill suited for the urban areas where uptake is greatest.
- Tidal Says It Won’t Pay Royalties for AI-Generated Music (404 Media) Tidal is a small streamer, and this is lawful, because AI cannot hold copyright.
- Hey Dems! Swing Voters Want You To Tax The Rich And Get Them Medicare For All! Isn't That Nice? (Wonkette) Yep. The "socialist policies" scare quoted by moderates in the Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment) are wildly popular.
- Solution to Feynman's reverse sprinkler puzzle also applies to "silly sprinklers" (Ars Technica) For all of you physics geeks out there.
- Archaeologists Unearth a 2,400-Year-Old Sanctuary for the Worship of Odysseus (New York Times) It's not clear if this was organic worship or a king declaring themselves a god.
- Lessons from a cat about to outlast yet another prime minister (The Economist) This is an article about Number 10's official mouser, Larry the Cat. When the lede is about how the cat is a, "Self-serving and territorial little shit," you know that it's a stem winder.
In memoriam, Sam Neill
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