Sunday assorted links

1. Poisoning LLM samples.

2. Will Germany succeed in luring researchers from America?  A new Substack by Olaf Gersemann, in English about Germany.  And a post about German deregulatory efforts and their failures.

3. The semi-global spread of bird language.

4. Decoding without pictures.

5. PC on Melville and the 19th century, recommended.

6. Will more lending be freed up by relaxing bank capital rules? (FT)

7. Andrew Batson explores Indian classical music.