Late words, an a moment of silence for the Ottawa Senators.
What’s an Indiana Pacers couple to do when viral moment goes off the rails? - The Athletic: Virality is terrible for normal people, especially women.
The Neo-Nazi Enforcer Who Helped Build Peter Thiel’s Online Influence Empire – Byline Times: Our ruling class is fundamentally dangerous.
Uppies and Downies, the medieval football game that has no rules and no time limit - The Athletic: Sports are cool. And not entirely sane.
The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine | WIRED: Our ruling class is incredibly petty.
Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want | The Verge: Our ruling class has their heads up their own … marketing plans.
'Project Hail Mary' Is the Blueprint to Save Hollywood (and Our Future): Hopepunk for the win.
CDC Blocks Journal From Publishing Study Proving Covid Vaccine Worked | The New Republic: The Barbara Streisand Effect administration.
Ukraine’s Plan to Starve the Russian War Machine - The Atlantic: I wonder if wars are now going to be long term, attrition affairs due to drones.
You’re about to feel the AI money squeeze | The Verge: Imitative AI as a business can only exist if it is subsidized.
The AI Compute Crunch Is Here (and It's Affecting the Entire Economy): Very large subsidies.
How the Tech World Turned Evil | The New Republic: Our tech overlords are evil.
What Is Woke 2?: Very thoughtful piece on cultural change and its relationship to power.
Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They’re the Bad Guys | WIRED: Yes, you are the baddies.
Anthropic’s Claude Is Pumping Out Vulnerable Code, Cyber Experts Warn: it really feels as if we are about to enter a golden age, so to speak, of hacking and vulnerabilities.
The Justice Department Sides With the Ku Klux Klan | The New Republic: This administration is run on pure gutter racism.
Congress Has Become Almost Totally Irrelevant - The American Prospect: Presidential systems always seem to end up broken or in some form of authoritariansim.
BEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN | The Verge: Excellent diagnosis of the fundamental problem with our ruling class.
Why BookScan Is Different from Book Sales (Which Are Different from Royalty Statements): It doesn’t see as of there are good public numbers about how many books have been sold.
Are NHL blood feuds a thing of the past? How the league’s evolution has tamed its playoffs - The Athletic: Fun look at how the NHL culture, as thus the culture at large, has changed over the last could of decades.
What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat - The Atlantic: Billionaires are a society problem.
Have the best possible week everyone, and good luck to the L.A. Kings in avoiding elimination …. Nope. Can’t do it. I hope they go down. Sports fandom is a terrible, terrible thing.