Curated Commons // Edition 154
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What are dreams for?
Very good long read in the New Yorker on dreams and why it might have to do with the whole body and not just the brain - Read here ($)
Incoming…More pain?
Worrying stats out of the US on rising delinquencies in credit cards and auto loans - Read here ($)
Insurers are telling us a lot about climate change. Are we listening?
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you…. - Read here ($)
What can we learn from communities of…AI-driven chatbots?
Our experiments for the future are happening! And all the more reason to wear your sceptic hat on anything you see, read, or experience in pixels - Read here ($)
Domains as a cash cow
The tiny island of Anguilla owns the right to hand over domains ending in .ai; and of late, it’s been really good business. - Read here ($)
Instant delivery, a market conjured up instantly?
Some interesting charts from the FT on the rapid rise, and demise, of instant grocery. - Read here ($)
Morgan Stanley finds that in the world of rapid delivery, everything is down 90 per cent-plus except the valuations. App downloads, discount searches and new fundraisings are all a tenth of the peak, or worse, but primary equity rounds are still just 14 per cent lower on average.
TikTok, Albania, and migration
Smugglers are using TikTok to attract youngsters in Albania to move to the UK. And recommendation algorithms make it all too easy! - Read here
Understanding Musk
Walter Isaacson has a new book coming out on Musk & the Twitter takeover. Promises to be an interesting read as always! - Read here ($)
EVs, great for the environment, not so much for the roads
Pothole damage from electric vehicles, which are only becoming more bulky, apparently is double that of petrol cars. - Read here
Is Geothermal the next big energy source?
Can we drill for heat, extract it, and leverage it? Some are trying. What complications might be bring up? - Read here ($)
Jennifer Aniston, neuroscientists, and machine learning
This was a fascinating dive down the rabbit hole. A computational neurobiologist asked ChatGPT who the top neuroscientists of the 20th century were. #6 on the list - Jennifer Aniston. And the likely reason - something known as the Jennifer Aniston neuron, a topic of interest to a lot of neuro researchers a decade ago! - Read here
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