We start this week with Matthew’s story about a fascinating paper that argues if LLMs are sentient, then by those metrics so is the classic game Age of Empires II. After the break, Matthew tells us about a wild story out of Texas with a data center being built on land that was donated to be a park. In the subscribers-only section, we talk hacking and basketball.

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⁠If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II’⁠
⁠A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead⁠
⁠Hackers Publish Knicks and Madison Square Garden Data Online⁠

⁠Madison Square Garden Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed Facial Recognition⁠