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 Why This #Palantir Billionaire Is Backing A Plan To Breed 30,000 #Monkeys - https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2026/10/27/why-this-billionaire-is-betting-on-us-bred-lab-monkeys/ these people just can't stop being evil... #animalcruelty 

Study finds self-immolation accounts for 16% of #Iran's burn admissions - https://www.iranintl.com/en/202611016130 awful

Are #LLMs good or bad #Bayesians? - https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/11/are-llms-good-or-bad-bayesians.html "LLMs tend to treat a plausible counterargument as evidence in favor of its conclusion, rather than comparing the counterargument to what they should have expected to hear" #ai 

The New Age of #Reading. - https://languagehat.com/the-new-age-of-reading/ contrary to claims and fears, reading is doing fine #ai #literacy

#BayeuxTapestry - https://moodysonnets.blogspot.com/2026/10/bayeux-tapestry.html a #sonnet provoked by the #BritishMuseum exhibition (well-worth seeing if you can get tix). with audio fwiw...