What I saw on the web on 2022.12.5

1. More ChatGPT
   by David Morgan-Mar and ChatpGPT
   https://www.dangermouse.net/wordpresshome/2022/12/05/more-chatgpt/
   this is solidly in Turing test territory
   via rss
   
   
2. Don't Be Fooled. This Is What Elon Musk Is Really Up to With Twitter
   by Yanis Varoufakis
   https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/11/25/dont-be-fooled-what-elon-musk-really-twitter
   it's a plausible theory
   via FB
   
   
3. Everyone Wants Their Own Planet, and They're Willing to Kill for It
   by Jessica Wildfire
   https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/p/everyone-wants-everything-now-and
   this all reads alarmingly plausibly
   via rss
   
   
4. How to Make Chocolate Ice Cream with 3 Ingredients
   by Matt Taylor
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt0g2TvBbeY
   i'm curious as to what this would taste like
   via boing
   
   
5. I Am Groot
   by Sherlocksmyth
   https://archiveofourown.org/works/2080878?view_adult=true
   a (rather risqué) story about our favourite walking tree
   via discord
   
   
6. Firing radioactive stuff at high speed under city streets
   by Tom Scott
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMTZvA8iFgI
   presumably this will eventually be part of the origin story of Rabbit Man?
   via rss
   
   
7. How Do Computers Really Work? Part 1: Basics
   by Mark Chu-Carroll
   http://www.goodmath.org/blog/2022/12/05/how-do-computers-really-work-part-1-basics/
   i don't recall having previously encountered this explanation of conductivity in metals versus non-metals
   via rss
   
   
8. Players of econonmic simulation game think communism is too OP
   by rock-n-roll martian et al
   https://rock-n-roll-martian.tumblr.com/post/702834017695842304
   as noted, so close to getting it
   via dresden codak