Featured Links - March 27, 2023

Links to things I found interesting but didn't want to do a full blog post about.

CJ relaxing

• Deceptive Design. "Deceptive design patterns (also known as "dark patterns") are tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn't mean to, like buying or signing up for something. The purpose of this site is to spread awareness and to shame companies that use these patterns."
• How Does COVID-19 Affect the Heart? "The ongoing evolution of SARS-CoV-2 variants and vast numbers of recovered COVID-19 patients portend a burgeoning global cardiovascular disease burden." Keep those masks on!
• Do AI generators infringe? Three new lawsuits consider this mega question. "The legal implications of AI are varied, evolving, and complex, but the focus of this post is AI’s intersection with intellectual property—in particular, the IP and IP-adjacent issues raised by AI’s input—i.e., the content used to train AI." CHatGPT and its ilk are going to keep many lawyers gainfully employed.
• None of the world’s top industries would be profitable if they paid for the natural capital they use. "A sobering new study finds that the world's biggest industries burn through $7.3 trillion worth of free natural capital a year. And it's the only reason they turn a profit."
• I Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory. "As the US boosts production of silicon chips, an American journalist goes inside TSMC, the mysterious Taiwanese company at the center of the global industry."
• Norton Space Props Is El Dorado For a Burgeoning Space Industry. "This unassuming business has been a low-key destination in the space world for more than seven decades. What looks at first glance like just another cut-rate junkyard was actually a vital bridge connecting the first space age to the current new space era. Thanks to some prescient hoarding and canny engineering, this salvage outlet became a site where old technology, once lost, came roaring back to life."