I love audiobooks and because of them, I've found the time to enjoy more wonderful short stories and novels. We should also distinguish audiobooks of dramatic adaptations vs narration of unabridged works. For me, the latter is just a format change.

John E. Stone made a similar point about shape perception in his talk for the Janelia Scientific Visualization Interest Group (organized by @wthang.bsky.social), although he uses ambient occlusion instead of path tracing for performance reasons.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzx0...

We couldn't do the Connectomics research we do without the advances in deep learning over the last decade. Blockchains aren't just databases, they're distributed ones with observable provenance.

I've seen the most absurd arguments and stupidity from anti-vaxxers. A favorite is that Long COVID only appears in those who get the jab. When I point out that medical papers describing Long COVID were published well before mRNA vaccines were available, they either say I'm lying or ignore that fact.

Early in his polemic he writes: "This is all on top of an $83.3 million fine Trump must pay for allegedly defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll."

Allegedly defaming? After a jury's verdict isn't there a better adverb? He could have added "after allegedly sexually assaulting..."