Links for May 30
Secret advertising, AI in books and schools, NATO, nice stories about marriage and reading, great tile
Hello, hope you had a smooth week. Mine was a little busy, back next week with books.
Links
There have been a few stories lately about how much cash is flowing around beneath the surface of Instagram, etc., and the clips you see, like most notably this NYMag one. Because of California’s disclosure rules, this one takes a look at how it works in politics now.
This look at AI and books gets into what you did or did not know about books, which is the authors generally have to pay to have them fact checked.
Thought this was a sharp look at the practical tradeoffs and limitations involved when you’re a professor dealing with students and AI.
Take a little quiz about NATO from Pew and then see the demographic breakdown of how other people did (almost certainly worse than you).
Nice story alert: Two people getting married. When I posted this the other day, I joked that it was a rare occurrence of something good happening to a person on pool duty (which involves following a politician all day). It got a good deal of engagement, because we love love, but also clearly because nobody has a good time on pool duty.
Nice story alert II: Librarians in San Antonio are doing summer reading campaigns off of Wembanyama, because he likes to read so much! (Also featuring nice quotes such as, “Everyone is so proud of the Spurs.”)
Sort of interesting, even if there will probably end up being a lockout: In the next MLB contract, they’re talking about salary cap and floor, and the league wants to centralize local TV revenue (which they’re sort of in the process of doing).
In cool photos, these recreate angles of archival photos of Vienna from before the world wars and in the 1950s.
The vibe is beautiful bathroom tile.
Light book commentary
Very light.
A note on all this
Thanks for subscribing. Hope you enjoy. The goal here is just to offer up some links you may have missed, and maybe the occasional commentary on something in politics or a book I may have read that you, the reader, might enjoy. If you have thoughts on any of this, hit me up at katherinemillernyc@gmail.com.