The Stochastic Game

Good morning! Fall is almost here! And the talk of the park yesterday was that there was a bear wandering around!

Hello lovely people! Here, have some more dog/fog combo!

Crazy theory: the decline of seeing movies in theatres in favour of streaming them at home was caused by movies becoming so long that a critical mass of people need a bathroom break in the middle, and therefore the ability to pause the movie.

Hello everyone! I liked the clouds this morning.

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“What to Know About the Quantum Network Buried Under New York City”: a slightly misleading title given that the quantum network used an existing optical fibre network, but still, very cool stuff.

“‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine”, another great article from 404 Media… this quote is especially interesting to me: “we are hitting a watershed where economics and morality are coming to a head”

Nice: in Scotland, there’s an Airbnb above a book store that lets you help run it during your stay.

“The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending”: your reminder that big book publishers are just as greedy as any other big corporation.

I remember when Steve Jobs pushed for DRM-free music and helped make it happen. Nobody of that stature is left to do that with books, movies, or TV series.

If I was to switch away from Firefox, I would have done that because of Mozilla’s past blunders, like buying an ad tech company or dealing with Facebook, not this new one about adding AI chatbots in their browser. Still, this isn’t a good trend for Mozilla… it makes me even more sad because one of my friends worked on that new feature 😢

Today in American Apple journalism, Ireland is a country that “supports successful companies”, and not the tax loophole that every worldwide corporation uses to evade paying billions of dollars for their business across Europe and beyond. I’m always impressed by this sort of mental gymnastic of libertarian tech-exceptionalism.