A list of good reads
- Wired UK has a must-read on gig workers in India who are being stabbed, stoned, and abused.
- In all the noise over AI, the New York Times (splainer gift link) explores a profound question: can AI truly be intelligent without a body to interact with and learn from the physical world?
- Popular Mechanics has an excellent read on the kooky CIA experiment to “convert the energy of your mind and body into a kind of laser beam that can transcend spacetime.” Awesome!
- Abhishek Mukherjee pens a wonderful piece in Moneycontrol on ‘Demon’ Meena—the first great Indian woman cricketer.
- A loving pet owner makes a thought-provoking argument in Vox against owning pets—which, she says, is inherently cruel.
- Jayson Greene in Pitchfork has an excellent piece on how Robin Thicke, Pharrell, and T.I.’s cursed megahit—‘Blurred Lines’—predicted everything bad about the past decade in pop culture.
- Wall Street Journal (splainer gift link) reports on the latest AI dilemma: should that goofy prediction in your fortune cookie be written by a machine or a human?
- Arwa Mahdawi in The Guardian points out an unexpected pattern: many of Forbes desirable ‘30 under 30’ list end up in jail.
- Reuters explains why fighting the urge to sleep may be bad for our health.
- How do you ‘flex’ in the world of the super-rich? Luxuo looks at the world of ‘Succession’ for answers.
