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Weekly Reads for Friday May 23, 2025

Divers Encounter a Live Giant Squid Swimming on the Ocean Surface

If you’re Bruce Schneier, this must be the most exciting thing you’ve seen in at least a year.

What’s the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT?

There’s been some interesting back and forth lately about the actual cost of AI. It’s worth reading the stories by Andy Masley that Hannah Ritchie links to also.

Sierra made the games of my childhood. Are they still fun to play? - Ars Technica

Nostalgia can do funny things to reality. What’s it like to play the games you loved as a kid with the perspective of age and (hopefully) maturity?

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has courage. Pope Francis had it too. Why are there so many cowards?

It certainly does seem like a lot of so-called leaders are afraid of something these days.

Wi-Fi is one of the great backward compatibility success stories | The Verge

I spend a lot of time fighting technology that doesn’t work correctly, so at least I can read about a tech win. Wi-Fi actually is something we kind of take for granted, while actually being quite complex.