The Longest Internet Blackout in History Is Crippling Iran’s Economy - WSJ

via John Ellis News Items (paywalled).

The bigger news, illustrated by Open AI’s disproving “Paul Erdős’ planar unit distance conjecture,” is that Artificial Superintelligence has arrived: “AI models … capable of having original ingenious ideas, and then carrying them out to fruition.”

Ellis News is a no ephemera zone, chock-full of stuff that maybe incites just a bit too much chin-scratching for “popular” media.

My main blog is the Tipsy Teetotaler, http://intellectualoid.com.