This Friday linkfest is a pretty flower that smells bad | Dynamic Ecology
This week: seven centuries of pandemics, inside arXiv, all bets are off, is administrative bloat actually a thing, whales vs. LLMs vs. global warming, the funeral Claude Shannon didn't get, and more. An architectural walk down Victoria Street. As a former resident of London, I enjoyed this. Deeply informed multi-paragraph comment from Shan Kothari coming…