space drugs and hacking

hi-

this set of articles feels almost like nostalgia mixed with the future. hopefully you’ll see what i mean.

the past:

• Early Computer Art in the 50s and 60s

• Inside Snopes: the rise, fall, and rebirth of an internet icon

• The strange survival of Guinness World Records

the future:

• See your identity pieced together from stolen data

• Researchers discover that ChatGPT prefers repeating 25 jokes over and over

• Varda: The Space Drug Factory: Expanding the Economic Bounds of Humankind, Starting Today

• A confession exposes india’s secret hacking industry

i hope you enjoy.

- zev

p.s. please forward this to a friend (or an enemy) if you think they may enjoy this. it’s not a frequent newsletter, but hopefully the quality of the articles make up for it.

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