Elsewhere on Thursday . . . 

— Beware, Roko’s basilisk rears its terrible head: “Each a pound of feathers and a couple of kilos of bricks weigh the identical quantity, which is one pound.” (ChatGPT, by way of Twitter)

— The Texas two-step’s new key (CreditSlips)

— A Brad Setser thread on Taiwan’s This fall central-bank interventions fills in some gaps of this attention-grabbing piece about disagreement inside TSMC over US growth plans. The story makes use of the phrase “price” 10 occasions and “foreign money” zero occasions. (Twitter, NY Occasions $)

— Absolute scenes in UK political polling (YouGov)

— Unrealistic deadlines and layoffs at the hen web site (The Verge)

— On the UK’s scarcity of tomatoes and why they’re a “fossil gasoline product in three dimensions” (Ed Conway)

— Los Angeles blizzard warning (LA Occasions)

— Big metallic sphere washes up on the seaside in Japan (Insider)

— America’s after-school afterthought (Vox)

— [eyes emoji] (The Solar)