Sunday assorted links

1. Tiger vs. small bear (NYT).

2. Is granting AIs legal freedoms one way to approach alignment issues?

3. More on aphantasia.

4. D.C.’s first Jane Austen ball.

5. Data on childless cat ladies.

6. Janan Ganesh on how and what to read (FT, noting I think he underrates our ability to pick out the very best current books).

7. Isonomia Quarterly.