Spotify Annoyed by People Uploading Hours of White Noise - https://futurism.com/the-byte/spotify-white-noise

The Jester of Tonga - https://www.the-fence.com/the-jester-of-tonga/

Analysis: Health care CEOs hauled in $4B last year as inflation pinched workers - https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/17/health-ceo-salaries-compensation/

Dude,Where's My Donations? Wikimedia gives another $1M to non-Wikimedia projects - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-08-15/News_and_notes

A Ghost Town of Abandoned Mansions in China - https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/see-inside-a-ghost-town-of-abandoned-mansions-in-china

Pg_later: Asynchronous Queries for Postgres - https://tembo.io/blog/introducing-pg-later/

Career advice for young system programmers - https://glaubercosta-11125.medium.com/career-advice-for-young-system-programmers-c7443f2d3edf

Fresh evidence of ChatGPT’s political bias revealed by comprehensive new study - https://www.uea.ac.uk/news/-/article/fresh-evidence-of-chatgpts-political-bias-revealed-by-comprehensive-new-study

People are starting a lot of fires in the Pacific Northwest - https://www.hcn.org/articles/wildfire-people-are-starting-a-lot-of-fires-in-the-pacific-northwest

We've Teamed Up with Mullvad VPN to Launch the Mullvad Browser - https://blog.torproject.org/releasing-mullvad-browser/

CATL reveals ‘Superfast Charging Battery,’ boasts 250mi range with 10-min charge - https://electrek.co/2023/08/16/catl-new-fast-charging-battery-250-mi-10-min/

Germany unveils bill to legalize cannabis - https://www.dw.com/en/germany-unveils-bill-to-legalize-cannabis/a-66545963

Anonfiles Is Shutting Down - https://anonfiles.com/

Iowa using AI to automatically scan and ban books - https://www.engadget.com/mason-city-iowa-school-district-ai-book-ban-censorship-202541565.html

Theory of interstellar trade (1978) [pdf] - https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf

What Happens to All the Stuff We Return? - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/21/the-hidden-cost-of-free-returns

Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release (1993) - https://wiki.debian.org/DebianHistory?action=AttachFile&do;=get⌖=Debian-announcement-1993.txt

Thinking about God increases acceptance of AI in decision-making - https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2218961120

Russian empire aerospace refugees (2021) - https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2021/03/05/russian-empire-aerospace-refugees/

Chrome was delivered without any sprints at all (2021) - https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1427137725119959046.html