Browser back buttons could be better.

Doesn't everyone "open link in new tab" now?

It would be nice if, in those new tabs, the back button took me to the page the link appeared on. Sometimes it's helpful to know, "How did I get here?"

#tech

This is a well written explainer of how we got to ChatGPT and other types of generative AI. It filled in some gaps for me.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/the-generative-ai-revolution-has-begun-how-did-we-get-here/

Jaywalking is no longer a crime in California. #fuckcars

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In the early 1900s, the streets were for people... and accidents with pedestrians were nearly always blamed on the driver. Back then, the streets... were already congested with traffic. Car dealers... worried that concerns about accident liability would reduce car sales... As a result, safety campaigns began shifting the blame to pedestrians, which eventually led to formal jaywalking laws.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/26/us/california-jaywalking-decriminalized.html

Watch this space...

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In a secure video meeting last Thursday with Israel’s top national security, military and intelligence officials, Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, “discussed Iran’s growing military relationship with Russia, including the transfer of weapons the Kremlin is deploying against Ukraine, targeting its civilian infrastructure and Russia’s provision of military technology to Iran in return,” the White House said in a statement...
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/us/politics/iran-drones-russia-ukraine.html

It's normal to spend Christmas learning about mass incarceration in the US, right? Well, this has been an "open tab" for a while now. Lots of good info that goes against conventional wisdom regarding what's needed to solve this problem.

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2022.html

“The Russian army is not flexible,” Lesya, the Ukrainian officer, told me. She noted proudly that every Ukrainian battalion travels with its own software developer. Ukraine’s core advantage isn’t just the army’s will to fight but also its technical prowess.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/19/palantir-algorithm-data-ukraine-war/