Danny Fenster

4 weeks ago | nonzero.org | Connor Echols |Robert Wright |Danny Fenster

Note: In June, the newsletter will be doing what it did last June: take a month off for retooling. Like last time, NonZero members (more crassly known as paid subscribers) will get a bonus month—and, also like last time, our podcasts will continue, complete with their members-only Overtime segments. Plus: On Thursday, June 12, at 8 pm US Eastern Time, I’ll do a Q&A Zoom call with members, discussing plans for future NZN media empire conquests and perhaps touching on the state of the world.

1 month ago | nonzero.org | Connor Echols |Robert Wright |Danny Fenster

—OpenAI’s o1 large language model exhibits “superhuman performance” on some kinds of medical reasoning, according to a study conducted by researchers at Harvard and Stanford medical schools and other institutions.

1 month ago | nonzero.org | Connor Echols |Robert Wright |Danny Fenster

—The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) announced that it will end its decades-long insurgency against the Turkish government, bringing “hope of regional stability” in the Middle East, Reuters reports. The decision, overshadowed by President Trump’s visit to the region, removes a flashpoint in Turkey’s relationship with Iraq, where PKK fighters have long hidden out in mountain bases.

1 month ago | nonzero.org | Connor Echols |Robert Wright |Danny Fenster

Welcome to issue #2 of the revamped Earthling! The idea is to give you more items than before, in shorter and more digestible form, and to accomplish several things in the process: review some of the week’s biggest developments, often with Earthlingesque context that you wouldn’t find in other media outlets; call your attention to less noted but (by Earthling lights) notable things; occasionally just have some fun.

Sep 6, 2023 | frontiermyanmar.net | Danny Fenster

OPINIONBy DANNY FENSTER | FRONTIERI couldn’t immediately place the name. Another of the inmates at Yangon’s Insein Prison was waving a newspaper at me, telling me my governor had arrived. “It is good news,” he said. “Your governor has come and he has met with Min Aung Hlaing. This means you will be freed.”  My governor? I thought.   “Who is my governor,” I said. “Bill Richardson.”Bill Richardson? I searched my mind. “Who the fuck is Bill Richardson?” I snatched the paper from him.