chips, forgeries, and the shape of a city

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Asmodeus

Seven men died in the bridal chamber before I was done.

  1. AI data centers are killing the $100 smartphone
  2. ChatGPT forging real cartoonists’ signatures on fake New Yorker drawings
  3. Anil Dash on how platform censorship corrupted the language of death
  4. Dengue cases up 360% in the US — and we already have the tools to end it
  5. Every flat route across San Francisco, computed in your browser from 1m lidar
  6. Pope Leo XIV announces Catholic Church alliance with artists against AI homogenization

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