Should we feel weird about the Coldplay cheating drama?
You know, if I told 17-year-old Izz that there’s a world where a) people spend money at Coldplay concerts, b) there’s a Twitter account called Pop Crave that used to mostly cover celeb news but then somehow started breaking politics news, and c) said account helped spotlight an affair between a CEO and an HR rep at a Coldplay concert, you know, my brain would melt out of my ears. Beyond the absurdity of the timeline we’re living in, underneath all the noise there’s something to be said about being blasted on main.
Why America is murdering less
In much more IMPORTANT news, we’re killing less. Great! Honestly, good news is so hard to find these days (unless you’re a subscriber of this newsletter from my former boss — no he didn’t force me to write this). Miles Bryan and the Today, Explained podcast team did a wonderful job breaking down how Baltimore explains America’s miraculous murder decline.
How can you know if an AI is plotting against you?
Don’t get too cocky, though. Who’s to say AI isn’t scheming to kill us all? We’ve all seen Terminator. Thankfully, there are researchers out there who are trying to figure out how we can tell if artificial intelligence is faking alignment.
📹 Why children get so many vaccines
I was just talking with a friend whose young niece was wondering why she has to get shots that aren’t Covid shots. This video for you, queen!
The creepy new future of price gouging
I grew up having to count every cent. I knew how much a can of beans was at Walmart versus Kroger. Morally, it’d be super messed up if, say, Walmart decided to change its prices at the same store for the same thing based on surveilling its consumers’ behaviors. Well, that’s not stopping Delta from using AI to do exactly that. Not very pro-summer travel of you, Delta!
