Aug 27, 2023
Editor's Note: In today’s Sunday feature, a surreal read from the American heartland intersecting the corridors of our largest technology companies, the United States Postal Service, and a wild culture of Chinese scam artists running more or less unchecked across the internet. It is a weirdly… charming tale? Of crime, modernity, and civic decay. But also hope. River Page reports — enjoy.
-Solana
ten pending state lawsuits against openai, nine filed by republican attorneys general, seek measures including state-mandated ai ‘approvals’ and halts on new model development
los angeles keeps making it harder to build, buy, and stay, as its “mansion tax” and other restrictions fuel a massive exodus.
official endorsements for candidates who don’t want to burn down the city, and for ballot props that aren’t literally insane, from your beloved team at pirate wires