• The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has filed a complaint against Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao for - basically - not taking the CFTC seriously.  (CNBC)
  
  On the one hand, the entire crypto industry is full of this kind of rule-bending bullshit when it's not outright stealing money and setting it on fire.
  
  On the other hand, the people enforcing the rules sat around with their thumbs up their butts while the industry stole that money and set it on fire, and are only now taking action against much more minor infringements.

• Intel's 13th generation NUCs are here.  (AnandTech)
  
  Along with a handy chart that shows the difference between the 1340P and 1360P.  Not much at all on the CPU side, but the iGPU has 96 cores instead of 80 and runs 100MHz faster.
  
  Dual HDMI, dual Thunderbolt, dual DDR4 SODIMM slots - not DDR5, which makes it more attractive to me because not only is DDR4 cheaper but I already have 128GB in 16GB modules sitting around from earlier upgrades, one M.2 slot, and 2.5Gb Ethernet.
  
  I'd prefer AMD but AMD's 7000 series doesn't support DDR4 memory.
  
  
  
• And then there were none: Agatha Christie's novels are the latest to be gruesomely murdered by British "sensitivity readers".  (The Guardian)
  
  I'm not saying woodchippers, but...  Woodchippers.
  
  
  
• Some of Twitter's source code was leaked on GitHub by an embittered ex-employee.  (Cyber Kendra)
  
  Which narrows it down to about 9000 suspects.
  
  
  
• China sucks.  TikTok sucks.  Those who claim that - for example - America and Facebook are just as bad do not know what they are talking about.  (The Register)
  
  A well-written article, so of course the comments are full of idiots.
  
  
  
• The Verge is also full of idiots.  (The Verge)
  
  The ideal of an open internet is not a suicide pact, you retards.
  
  
  

Midjourney Art of the Day

The hands again aren't quite right, but they are attached to her wrists and there aren't three of them, unlike one of the other pictures in this batch.

If someone wanted to illustrate a fantasy role-playing game, Midjourney would be a godsend.  Except that it doesn't understand what it's doing, it just makes a pastiche of what it's seen.

Now, it's seen literally millions of photos and pieces of art and it's grown very good at making pastiches, but it has no understanding and no imagination.

If you want an illustration, it's great.  If you want an illustration of something, hire an artist.