MultivRSS Digest: seeing dodos, hating Pink Floyd, hating intellectuals too

Translated from the original Italian with the help of AI. If a sentence sounds a bit off, that's probably why.

I'm crazy about these short Guardian interviews with the great musicians of our time. A few weeks ago, to mark the release of the new Durutti Column record, they interviewed Vini Reilly, one of the musicians I love most, full stop:

This week, on the other hand, they ran a much shorter but much funnier interview with Elvis Costello, who had the courage to say something I've always kept to myself: I don't like Pink Floyd.

While I'm at it, let me remind you that the Guardian is a wonderful example of how RSS feeds should be handled on a website. For every section of the paper you just add /rss to find the feed, so in this case the section is theguardian.com/music and the feed lives at theguardian.com/music/rss. Beautiful.

Changing the subject completely, another piece that made my jaw drop this week tells the incredible story of how artificial intelligence made it possible to track down a source documenting one of the rare sightings of a dodo.

If, like me, you keep deep in your heart the misplaced hope that one day we'll see flocks of dodos strutting around the planet again, you have to read this one.

Then there's a piece I still don't quite know what to make of. Do I agree? Do I disagree? I'd probably like to disagree, but can't find a way to do so.

The title, fairly eloquent, is "Intellectuals are fucking idiots", and it's about how dangerous it is to think you can reduce reality to models of reality.