- Kyla Scanlon: Is AI Going to Destroy our Lives or Not? It has been two months since Scanlon last posted so this is a long update that doesn’t cover much more than Ed Zitron recently did, albeit in a — to me, at least — more readable style. The last section, titled “What Do You Do About It”, may be useful to many.
- Reese Richardson: How much of Thermo Fisher’s antibody data has been manipulated? A lot of it, it looks like. I wonder how many poor PhD students and postdocs wasted weeks and months of effort because the antibodies Thermo Fisher Scientific sold weren’t as specific or sensitive as they claimed. Surely as a publicly traded company TFS should have known better. Must have been a rogue employee, or a hundred. Caveat emptor!
- John Siracusa: EV Stupidity Checklist. Twelve physical items that have gotten worse since more cars became electric, with recommendations on how to go back to saner designs. You know, ones that include a rear window
- Brian Philips for The Ringer: The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech. [Note: ᔥAlan Jacobs ] A broader list and more tongue-in-cheek, but items 37 through 39 cut deep.
Have a great weekend!