How NASA Learned to Love the Worm Logo - The New York Times

Shohei Ohtani joining Dodgers on 10-year, $700M contract - ESPN

Overpaid. Dodgers will not win a championship for 10 years.

How many people have received a US green card?

How much money do Americans spend on holiday shopping?

FDA Approves First Gene Therapies to Treat Patients with Sickle Cell Disease | FDA

Calendar Tetris – REWORK podcast - YouTube

The David Rubenstein Show: Bill Ackman - YouTube

This single picture summarizes the entire Republican debate tonight in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. No further commentary.

23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users

In an email sent to TechCrunch late on Saturday, 23andMe spokesperson Katie Watson confirmed that hackers accessed the personal information of about 5.5 million people who opted-in to 23andMe’s DNA Relatives feature, which allows customers to automatically share some of their data with others. The stolen data included the person’s name, birth year, relationship labels, the percentage of DNA shared with relatives, ancestry reports and self-reported location.

23andMe also confirmed that another group of about 1.4 million people who opted-in to DNA Relatives also “had their Family Tree profile information accessed,” which includes display names, relationship labels, birth year, self-reported location and whether the user decided to share their information, the spokesperson said.

APOD: 2023 December 5 – Energetic Particle Strikes the Earth

Christian McCaffrey: He Plays the NFL’s Least Valued Position. He’s Never Been More Valuable. - WSJ

xkcd: Space Typography

The Class War at West Virginia University - The Atlantic

Goods Deflation Is Back. It Could Speed Inflation’s Return to 2%. - WSJ

Dead or Alive? The Hunt for a Ukrainian Soldier Missing on a Chaotic Battlefield - WSJ

Behind the Scenes of the Most Spectacular Show On TV - The New York Times

The Race to Save Ketchup: Building a Tomato for a Hotter World - WSJ

Dolphins Can Sense Electric Fields, Which Isn’t That Shocking - The New York Times

The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong - YouTube

Drunk and Asleep on the Job: Air Traffic Controllers Pushed to the Brink - The New York Times

1hr Talk Intro to Large Language Models - YouTube

Sandra Day O’Connor, First Woman on Supreme Court, Dies at 93 - WSJ

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For the last 6 months, I’ve been embedded in OpenAI and Microsoft, studying how they build AI. Then Sam Altman was fired, sparking a five-day crisis that some insiders started calling the “Turkey-Shoot Clusterfuck.” I had a front row seat. 🧵

The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAI | The New Yorker — A must read. Charles Duhigg is this generation’s Atul Gawande meets Malcolm Gladwell. Absolute cutting edge reporting.

The Killer Who Got Into Harvard | The New Yorker