mitchbob

Gift link:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/27/opinion/elect...

> A new book by Jordan Himelfarb follows the game’s rising young players, including the reigning world champion Gukesh Dommaraju, as they compete in an era defined by computers.

https://archive.ph/2026.04.26-114843/https://www.newyorker.c...

> A broken phone or corrupted drive can mean the loss of work, evidence, art, or the last traces of the dead. But sometimes data-recovery experts can summon lost files from the void.

https://archive.ph/I4bSm

> Ads, rate limits, feature restrictions, price hikes. The AI free ride is over.

https://archive.ph/2026.04.24-185310/https://www.theverge.co...

Gift link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...

> The tech world assumes that A.I.-aided education is necessary and inevitable. A growing number of parents, educators, and cognitive scientists say the opposite.

https://archive.ph/2026.04.23-101509/https://www.newyorker.c...

Article on this without a paywall:

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/22/business/spirit-airlines-fede...

(2018)

https://archive.ph/2021.04.03-164139/https://www.theatlantic...

People who use AI are responsible for what it does. IBM had it right in 1979:

A computer can never be held accountable

Therefore a computer must never make a management decision

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a-computer-can-never-be...

> Secret memos obtained by The New York Times illuminate the origins of the court’s now-routine “shadow docket” rulings on presidential power.

https://archive.ph/2026.04.18-174718/https://www.nytimes.com...