Is there a German term for when you are simultaneously overjoyed that it is T-shirt weather in October but also feel a sense of existential angst because it means the planet is dying? 

 @b92dcc07, I apologize if I have missed it, but have you written or spoken about the lawsuits involving AI large language models and copyright? Given your background, I would be very interested in your perspective! 

 When Twitter Died, So Did Independent Journalism https://www.damemagazine.com/2023/09/12/when-twitter-died-so-did-independent-journalism/ 

 Everything we know about the origins of barbecue is wrong

From Daniel Vaughn for Texas Monthly: "The origins of barbecue are murky. Both the transformation from the word “barbacoa” and the development of the cooking process are widely accepted as having come from the Taíno people Christoper Columbus first encountered in present-day Haiti. After much research, Joseph Haynes

https://mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2023/09/14/everything-we-know-about-the-origins-of-barbecue-is-wrong/ 

 This is great from Taylor Lorenz -- an excerpt from her new book -- looking at Julia Allison, one of the first real online influencers https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/julia-allison-first-online-influencer-vilified-1234823324/ 

 "Twitter never has and never will be a vehicle for democratic expression. It is a privately held corporation that monetizes human expression, and what turns out to be most profitable is sowing social, cultural, and political division" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/18/elon-musk-walter-isaacson-book-review 

 "How much influence do journalists really have? Is digital media just a bad business? Instead of answering any of these questions, Smith recounts Peretti’s missteps before Smith found greener pastures, walking away from the impending implosion unscathed" https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/ben-smith-traffic-review/ 

 For me, the best detail here is that when they spoke about the Twitter acquisition, both Musk and Bankman-Fried thought the other one was insane  https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musk-x-twitter-takeover-5f553fa