Published on Jan 26, 2026 [Permalink]
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Monday links, ever more self-referential

Sam Rodriques: The Humanity Project. The underlying assumption of this proposal is that the magic of AI will bring about thousands of new molecules and hypotheses on how they work, and that many of them will require testing in humans, and that we therefore better streamline how clinical trials are designed and run by yes, using LLMs. It is the healthcare ouroboros, now loaded with AI!
Andrew Losowsky for The Markup: We posted a job. Then came the AI slop, impersonator and recruiter scam. Yet more ways in which LLMs are making hiring challenging, both upstream and downstream of my limited experience with meetings. (ᔥBen Werdmuller)
Nick Schaden: Can the gaming industry adapt to a frozen market?. Gaming being among things suffering death by cloud was not on my radar but of course that it is! Roblox and Minecraft and Fortnite are all “games as a service”, i.e. platforms, i.e. stasis generators. Now to find a way to explain to my kids why they are not allowed to spend any more time on Forsaken…
Richard Griffiths: The Toe of the Year and the Curious Case of John Donne’s Missing Commonplace Book. I never saw these lists of links as a commonplace book stand-in, but of course they are. Even the find-the-common-theme game was already there (which, duh, it is a common-place book)! I am, of course, closer to the illusion of integrated thought end of the spectrum so thank you for bearing with me, dear reader.