More like this please. This could be great fun.

The Concept C Is the All-Electric Sports Car Kick-Starting Audi’s Design Future | WIRED

This is how AI wins the argument, it’s applied to a part of a larger issue and then people over react. Then over time it will be applied to larger and larger parts.

Remember the AI assistance of accents and voices in The Brutalist? Over-reaction and then a step forwards.

Will Smith’s concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines – Waxy.org

Good Night, and Good Luck – Chris Glass

Obviously it was only televised because of “the current climate”. I was struck about how different the staging was from a European production. I need to watch more to come to a final opinion.

Initially, the AI’s designs seemed outlandish. “The outputs that the thing was giving us were really not comprehensible by people,” Adhikari said. “They were too complicated, and they looked like alien things or AI things. Just nothing that a human being would make, because it had no sense of symmetry, beauty, anything. It was just a mess.”

AI and the Detection of Gravity Waves – Marginal REVOLUTION

Trump Plays the Carnage Card – Paul Krugman

Wonder how long this stays up…

Trump Action Tracker | Keeping a tally of Trump’s actions

there’s a reason this “tech-friendly dictator” fantasy has been bubbling up in VC circles and startup accelerators for years. It’s not just about cutting red tape—it’s about the fundamental belief that techbros like themselves shouldn’t have to deal with the messy compromises that democracy itself requires. They’d rather sweep away all those pesky democratic institutions and let the “smart people” (spoiler: they mean themselves) run things.

The basic pitch is seductive: democracy is messy, slow, and often staffed by people who don’t understand technology. Wouldn’t it be better to have someone in charge who just… gets it?

No. No, it would not.

Fascism For First Time Founders | Techdirt

“Change, when it comes to India, comes not as revolution but as a tidal shift.”

“Corporate cafeterias became inadvertent experiments in managing this complexity. Visit any IT campus in Bangalore: separate counters for vegetarian, non-vegetarian, Jain, vegan, North Indian, South Indian, Chinese (Indianized, of course), and Continental. The logistics would break most societies. In India, it’s Tuesday.”

“Where festival holidays meant everyone got days off for Diwali, Eid, Christmas, Guru Nanak Jayanti, and Good Friday. Where secularism isn’t the absence of religion but the presence of all religions.”

 The Paradox of India – Samir Varma

Daring Fireball: Network Pinheads at CBS Are Ending ‘The Late Show’

If it’s really a financial only decision, let Colbert buy the name and the theatre. My bet is within three years he’ll be worth more than CBS.