What I saw on the web on 2022.12.8

[reblogarythm]

1. I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language
   by Dylan Black
   https://maximumeffort.substack.com/p/i-taught-chatgpt-to-invent-a-language
   this is kinda nuts
   via reddit
   
   
2. Will ChatGPT Kill the Student Essay?
   by Stephen Marche
   https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/chatgpt-ai-writing-college-student-essays/672371/
   with a detour about Snow's two cultures in the middle
   via discord?
   
   
3. Like pop rocks for the brain: Samuel R. Delany’s Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
   by Jo Walton
   https://www.tor.com/2009/02/19/like-pop-rocks-for-the-brain-samuel-r-delanys-stars-in-my-pocket-like-grains-of-sand/
   a fine tribute to a fine book which i need to read again sometime soon
   via a trail of breadcrumbs not all of which i still recall, but might have started with subsequent link?
   
   
4. Samuel R. Delany, pornography, and this one webcomic I'm reading
   by rushthatspeaks
   https://rushthatspeaks.dreamwidth.org/1086967.html
   pretty much exactly what it says on the tin
   via discord? maybe?
   
   
5. Tub Thump Dump.
   by Peter Watts
   https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=10368
   a somewhat overdue update from Dr.Watts with some pointers to more places to experience him
   via rss
   
   
6. L.A. authorities will let girl care for unicorn if she meets 5 conditions — and if she finds one
   by CBC News
   https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/unicorn-licence-1.6680186
   i hadn't realized that unicorns had a proclivity for watermelon
   via rss
   
   
7. Rarely wearing capes.
   by jessica hagy
   https://thisisindexed.com/2022/12/rarely-wearing-capes/
   this is true
   via rss
   
   
8. How Rats Are Overturning Decades of Military Norms
   by Darcie DeAngelo
   https://www.sapiens.org/culture/land-mine-detection-rats/
   excellent work!
   via ran prieur