Friday assorted links

1. NYC is starting a crackdown to ensure payment of bus fares (NYT).

2. Steve Silberman, RIP.

3. 100 million token context window?

4. Egypt sending troops to Somalia?

5. “Japan plans cash incentive for women to marry and leave Tokyo.”  I think they will find it hard to achieve the desired ends here.

6. Does America have enough states to support statistical inference?

7. Eleven minute AI film.

8. Brazil’s military relies on Starlink for operations and security.  Solve for the equilibrium.  And the very latest development.

9. Italy considering a tourist tax on expensive hotel rooms (FT).

10. For the first time, more than half the entering class at Caltech will be women.

11. GLP-1 drugs help against Covid adverse events.