Not much news this week, (well, other than a near coup in Russia, more bizarreness coming out of a particular political camp and the few things of note found herein):
If Star Wars were directed by Stanley Kubrick
Open Source AI is changing everything
An (incomplete) list of Open Sourced LLMs
Cormac McCarthy’s unusual career – and how something like it could never happen again.
The second edition of Steven H Silver’s After Hastings has been published
The Internat is getting lazerized
(Our featured image this week depicts the UFP’s starship finally connecting to the internet. Image courtesy Paramount Television/Norway Corporation/Roddenberry.com via https://www.livescience.com/)