Paul Bogard via IEEE Spectrum:

‘Bad decisions have turned efficient technology into a driver of light pollution. There is a better way…’

Brynn Tannehill via The Atlantic:

‘Hegseth seems to believe that hotdogging and showboating improve morale. I can tell you from personal experience as a military aviator that nothing destroys morale as completely as having one’s commanding officer call a meeting to announce that Cutlass 470 was lost with all hands. At that funeral—for the crew of an aircraft that went down not because it was showing off for an audience but for unknown reasons during a routine maintenance flight—the coffins were empty because the bodies were unrecoverable at the time. Such tragedies devastate the units they leave behind, and the antics that Hegseth now promotes make them likelier.…’

Via Atlas Obscura:

‘This sculpture by Ció Abellí shows a father, with long hair and a typical hippie appearance. He walks with his little daughter who looks the same way. At their feet is a world map with the places in the world where the hippie communities were concentrated: San Francisco, Amsterdam, Kathmandu, Goa, and Ibiza. The monument pays tribute to the hippie movement that has played an important role in the development of Ibiza….’

Mike Pearl via Gizmodo:

‘…[W]hether users tend to stop at the AI Overview, or engage with it and end up in AI Mode, “more than 50% of traffic on the Internet is now non-human,” a Cloudflare report from earlier this month says. As less and less human traffic comes from Google Search, and more and more ads are being shown to bots, the danger is that the business model of a free and open web will become unsustainable.

After all, a study from earlier this year found that over 35% of new websites were AI generated. It turns out they’re also, apparently, more than 50% AI-consumed….’

Andy Greenberg via WIRED:

‘Dealerships installed alarms in millions of vehicles—and left them in even if the buyer didn’t want them. Now researchers warn they can be hacked to unlock, track, and disable cars….’

Via pbs.twimg.com: He wasn’t invited to play, just to be photographed (if at all).