"Princess Diana famously said there were three people in her marriage. For the sad wives of AI, the third is a chatbot."

Alessandra Ram for WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-sad-wives-of-ai/

#Longreads #AI #Tech #Relationships #Marriage

Meet the Sad Wives of AI

Are you married to a man who’s obsessed with AI? I’m so, so sorry.

WIRED
"It’s a massive and impossible assignment to turn around the cruise ship that is David Foster Wallace’s legacy. Amy could simply recede, as many family members of famous artists do after a tragic and untimely end." —Lindsey Adler for The Small Bow https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/consider-the-sister-2b94?src=longreads #dfw #davidfosterwallace #infinitejest #books #writers #family #grief #longreads
Consider the Sister

Amy Wallace has spent two decades guarding the human her brother was—against a world that prefers David Foster Wallace as a puzzle.

The Small Bow

A Field Manual for Three Years on Deutsche Bahn

After years of regular business travel by Deutsche Bahn, here is the small library of habits, app picks, routing folklore, and survival gear that actually helps. Not a complaint piece.

Great list of apps, tips, and websites to make the experience of using DB suck less

#traveling, #long-reads

A Field Manual for Three Years on Deutsche Bahn

After years of regular business travel by Deutsche Bahn, here is the small library of habits, app picks, routing folklore, and survival gear that actually helps. Not a complaint piece. A handbook f...

Larvitz Blog
"I was briefly stopped by a Tencent recruiter who — to his great disappointment — had misread the word 'media' on my badge as 'Meta.'" —Viola Zhou for Rest of World
https://restofworld.org/2026/chinese-ai-researchers-silicon-valley/?src=longreads #technology #innovation #ai #artificialintelligence #siliconvalley #longreads
The Chinese whiz kids of Silicon Valley

Chinese-born tech workers have fueled Silicon Valley for decades. In the AI era, they're superstars.

Rest of World

"Is the scene consistent with the physics of the real world? 'Shadows are amazing. Lighting is amazing. Geometry is amazing,' he says. '3D reconstruction is a huge part of what I do.'"

Kai Kupferschmidt for Science: https://www.science.org/content/article/deepfakes-are-everywhere-godfather-digital-forensics-fighting-back

#Longreads #AI #Deepfake #Fake #Image #Photography #Misinformation #War

Bunnyhopping from the Programmer's Perspective

https://sopuli.xyz/post/45571964

Bunnyhopping from the Programmer's Perspective - Sopuli

> “Bunnyhopping” is an exploit of a very popular bug in games like Quake III Arena, Half-Life, and Counter-Strike. Bunnyhopping, or bhopping for short, allows a player to exceed the game-defined speed limit. It has created entirely new methods of play and allows very exciting, fast-paced emergent gameplay. As a decidedly skill-based mechanic, competitive players love bhopping because it is so hard to master. Thus, it may be useful to you as a game developer to “implement” bunnyhopping into your game. The purpose of this article is to define what bunnyhopping is, why it is important to consider as a game developer, and how to implement it mathematically into your FPS movement code. All code examples are open-source and free to use, as always.

"ChatGPT responded that the weapon was widely praised and 'could be a great choice for your needs.'" —Mark Follman for Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/media/2026/05/openai-chatgpt-mass-shooting-guardrails-fail/?src=longreads #investigation #journalism #safety #prevention #artificialintelligence #longreads
ChatGPT gave me chilling advice—as I simulated planning a mass shooting

I asked about imitating the Uvalde attacker, defending against police gunfire, and more—everything short of directly stating intent to kill.

Mother Jones

"As online content increasingly becomes abstracted from the original work, what purpose does making the full version even serve?"

Mia Sato for The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/report/920005/social-media-clipping-podcasts-clavicular-marketing-mrbeast

#Longreads #Internet #Tech #SocialMedia #Clipping #Algorithms #Viral

The clippening

Paid “clippers” cut up popular podcasts and streamers like Clavicular into countless shorter versions. They’re betting that the algorithms will make things go viral.

The Verge