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We need to talk about AI and math. Most of the breakthroughs this year are counterexamples found by brute search, not theorems built from insight, and understanding that helps us grasp the power and limits of transformer models.
https://jonippolito.substack.com/p/ai-is-foragi…

I’m back from this summer’s silent retreat, stepping into ordinary life again. Whoah!
It was an intense time for for me, as you’ll see from this I gave at the retreat, in which I encounter myself in the form of a demon, in the form of a painting, and in the form of a hermit-nun.
#zen #Art

Of all Trump's bizarre inconsistencies, this must be the most bizarre (for this week, anyway).
"Trump is Paying Putin to Murder Ukrainians, Menace Europe, and Help Iran Kill Americans".

Trump is Paying Putin to Murder Ukrainians, Menace Europe, and Help Iran Kill Americans
Trump unveils the most treacherous deal in modern American history

#096 Dilly-dallying in the aisle https://diagramclub.substack.com/p/096-dilly-dallying-in-the-aisle

#096 Dilly-dallying in the aisle
Charlotte needs a bicycle / My usj

Trump says data centers are “liquid gold.” Voters smell something else, and savvy candidates should take advantage of that in November. My latest Substack for Crimson Goes Blue https://jonippolito.substack.com/p/run-against-the-server-farm

@… https://johannasommer.substack.com/

Outbreaks of Tenderness | Johanna Sommer | Substack
Outbreaks of Tenderness is a blog on music and culture, with zero planning and occasional reporting by Johanna Sommer. Click to read Outbreaks of Tenderness, by Johanna Sommer, a Substack publication. Launched 3 years ago.

He lost a multi-million-dollar deal over accusations of using AI to produce a book. Now, Jerry Falade presents his side of the story.
https://kathleenschmidt.substack.com/p/exclusive-author-jerry-falade-reflects

Substack adds optional dynamic ad insertion to the podcasts it hosts, the latest step in a sponsorship push the company has been building since June (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/substack-dynamic-podcast-ads/

Substack Brings Dynamic Ad Insertion to Podcasts
Podcasters will be able to sell their own campaigns or fill ad breaks through third-party marketplaces, with monetization slated for 2027.

Writers dismissed a recent NYT op-ed arguing for the spoken word in the AI era. But speech may prove key to a future in which writing forks into conversational media—spontaneous and malleable like clay—and machine-readable media that are precise like marble
https://jonippolito.substack.com/p/don

Spotify-owned outlet The Ringer moves newsletters by some of its most popular staff to Substack; Spotify declines to explain the strategy behind the move (Owen Lewis/Defector)
https://defector.com/nobody-wants-to-talk-about-why-the-ringer-is-pivoting-to…

Nobody Wants To Talk About Why The Ringer Is Pivoting To Substack | Defector
A media company launching a series of paywalled newsletters is not, on its own and on its face, a strange thing to do. AI’s ongoing cannibalization of online search is ravaging website traffic, and programmatic advertising doesn’t provide the kind of revenue it used to. If you were running a website like The Ringer, you…