Interesting Links for 13-11-2025

[andrewducker]

1. GLP-1 Drugs Linked to Dramatically Lower Death Rates in Colon Cancer Patients

(tags:glp cancer GoodNews )

2. The No. 1 country song in the US right now is AI-generated

(tags:music ai )

3. Edinburgh's Argyle House (home of Codebase) is being demolished

(tags:edinburgh architecture )

4. Reminder that if you see a paywall on the web then you can usually get past it with archive.ph (but if you keep using it for the same site, you should support the site)

(tags:archive web paywall )

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

2) Listened to by real listeners or bots too?

[andrewducker]

An excellent question. I think they try to avoid bot listeners nowadays, as they lose money that way, and it doesn't make them any more.

[juan_gandhi]

Will have to try #4.
#2: not just "breaking Rust". I saw yesterday on Twitter that "Oh say can you see" is qualified by an AI as an AI-generated song.

[bens_dad]

2) I note that the first comment states that this is not the Hot 100 Country Chart, but the (easily manipulated) digital sales chart.

AIUI only human works can be copyrighted (remember the selfie taken by a monkey).
Therefore pirating an AI work is not a breach of copyright ?
Can we use this to price AI out of the music system; by always listening to "pirated" copies of AI music ?

[andrewducker]

Huh, I don't see any comments there.

But the Hot 100 Country Chart consists of radio airplay and digital sales - and digital sales are nowadays 90% of all music sales. So the only differing factor would be radio airplay. Which is notoriously manipulated.

But yes, I like to listen to music by people. So I am unlikely to listen pirated AI content much either.

[bens_dad]

Huh, I don't see any comments there.
Easy to miss. They are after the picture of the author of the article, and you have to click "Load More Comments" to see them.

[bens_dad]

4. There is an archive.ph plugin for firefox, but it goes to archive.org !
The developer says:

It used to open the page on archive.ph. But since archive.ph doesn't support all pages, I switched to archive.org. It is a pain to update the name of the addon. Feel free to uninstall if you don't like it.

[andrewducker]

So long as it works!

[bens_dad]

Firefox says they don't check the code and it didn't install first time, so I cannot confirm that it does.