Interesting Links for 10-08-2025

[andrewducker]

1. 'Anti-Racist' ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt Laments Rising 'Intermarriage Rates' Among Jews

(tags:racism society Jews marriage )

2. Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution linked to increased risk of dementia

(tags:pollution dementia )

3. I did not know that the human voice could reproduce feedback guitar sounds

(tags:music video viaSwampers impressive )

4. AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

(tags:ai copyright law USA )

5. First impressions of Alexa+, Amazon's upgraded, AI-powered digital assistant (It's not good)

(tags:amazon ai )

6. The FBI As We Knew It is Gone

(tags:fbi usa corruption doom )

Comments

[calimac]

1. It's not just him. Most Reform rabbis of what is now the senior generation would not perform interfaith marriages, though they would welcome established interfaith couples to their congregations, assuming you wanted to go.
At the time B. and I got married, 30 years ago, there were still a few elderly rabbis of the previous generation around who were happy to do it. It's my understanding that younger ones are also more flexible.

4. So the A.I. industry is upset that its rampaging breaking of copyright law is going to get called out.

5. This is why I don't trust any artificial service to figure out what's important to me.

6. The history of the FBI here is correct to my understanding. The one niggle is that it wasn't called the Federal Bureau of Investigation until just before Hoover took over. The earlier Bureau of Investigation of the Justice Dept. is sometimes considered a separate entity.

[andrewducker]

5. Me either!

[bens_dad]

3. I know that my ears aren't the best, but I struggled to hear the mouth over the guitar.
Was there a reason why he wasn't solo ?

[andrewducker]

The guitar was a quiet acoustic. Literally all of the feedback/electric guitar sounds you could hear was from his mouth.

5.

[channelpenguin]

About what I'd expect from my own very short and recent experience creating (coding) "AI agents". Absolutely nothing is reliable. A traditionally coded service is the better choice right now. I'm not sure what would make that change, but let's see.

Re: 5.

[andrewducker]

Yeah. I will get around to testing them at some point soon, and I'm not confident that they're going to be amazing.

4.

[channelpenguin]

Oooh! I'm cheering on that judge! But it'll get squashed by commercial interests. It's crazy talk, of course, since when has "it'll be bad for a business to stop doing illegal things and compensate people for theft" been any kind of legal (or moral) argument.

Re: 4.

[mtbc]

Definitely, I'll be fascinated to watch how obvious copyright violations end up being justified by the weight of the money.

Re: 4.

[fub]

On the other hand, what will happen if Disney goes head-to-head with OpenAI?

Re: 4.

[andrewducker]

Fun *and* games.

[channelpenguin]

I sang "guitar solos" for a couple of songs I recorded back in 2011. None of the other people in the songwriting group (most of them proper guitarists) noticed, even though there were some notes bent DOWNWARDS, which is unusual and was (and is) way beyond my guitar playing skill!

[andrewducker]

That's very impressive!

[channelpenguin]

Obviously I did use FX. But so do electric guitars.