People are sleeping on huge news in the Musk vs OpenAI case today.

The judge finds that if Musk's donation gives him legal standing she thinks it's very likely that she'd want to block their entire $100 billion non-profit to for-profit conversion!

I deep dive below. 1/ Musk is trying to stop the OpenAI business effectively converting from a non-profit to for-profit.

To do that he needs to prove both that he is being wronged in a way that allows him to bring a case to the court ('legal standing'), AND that the conversion to a for-profit is unacceptable, breaching the trust created when OpenAI accepted his donations. 2/

I'd always wondered why other species don't have a sense of disgust like humans, in order to avoid picking up pathogens and getting sick.

'Plagues upon the Earth' gave me my answer: humans suffer 10-100x as many pathogens as wild animals.

So hygiene is way more imp for humans. Humans suffer among the highest pathogen burdens of any species because we started congregating in cities, forming pathogen communities large enough for illnesses to circulate indefinitely.

Twenty-three reasons not to read newspapers and online 'news' sources. 🧵

All from Dobelli's 'Stop Reading the News': amazon.co.uk/Stop-Reading-N…

1. News is overwhelmingly not relevant to any decisions you will make. 2. If the planet were four times as big would it be sensible to read four times as much news to keep up with it all?

If not... why not read less news now?