Daily Tech News 19 November 2024

• Nearly half of US thinks scientists are smug, and studies show humility helps. (Ars Technica)
  
  The commentariat throws its toys out of the pram at this suggestion.
  
  
  
• How Scientific American's departing editor helped degrade science. (Reason)
  
  I stopped reading Scientific American well before this particular lunatic's reign from Hell. Looks like that was a good decision.

• Publisher Harper Collins is offering authors $2500 to sell their backlists to an unnamed AI company. (404 Media)
  
  Judging from the response of the author cited here, he would be well advised to take the money and run. AIs can already generate self-important drivel.
  
  
  
• Or sometimes not: Apple Intelligence is here and it's garbage. (Ars Technica)
  
  Thanks Apple.
  
  
  
• Gwynne Shotwell, CEO of SpaceX, predicts 400 Starship launches over the next four years. (Ars Technica)
  
  Since Starship is fully reusable, it will be cheaper to launch than Falcon 9 which has a disposable second stage, despite being far larger and more powerful.
  
  Since this is a rocket article, the comments are mostly sane. The usual Musk-hating lunatics show up but promptly get downvoted to oblivion.
  
  
  
• Bluesky is a new kind of social network. Decentralised and freed from the control of any single company, it is resistant to groupthink and censorship and if you say there are only two genders you will be banned instantly. (The Dossier)
  
  When leftists talk about censorship, they mean censorship of them.
  
  They insist on censorship of you.
  
  
  
  

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