It’s Sunday, Sunday Sunday!
The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine: A great understanding of one of the ways that the Democratic Party as an institution fails us.
Trump's Mar-a-Lago Spa Was Tailor-Made for Epstein: People have probably seen this information before, but this is a good summary.
Book Review: ‘Summer of Our Discontent,’ by Thomas Chatterton Williams - The New York Times: Great take down of what appears to be a terrible book.
Weregild Calculator: How much would you be worth dead, if you were Anglo-Saxon?
A $2B NHL team seized control of youth hockey. Parents are fed up.: Monopolies are bad, and the Dallas Stars suck.
The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People: Every member of DOGE who broke a law needs to be punished to the fullest extent under the law.
Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash | Electrek: Tesla is trying to avoid what it nows it is responsible for.
An engineer restores pay phones for free public use : NPR: This is very cool.
Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine | WIRED: These AI firms have no shame.
Andrea Long Chu on Thomas Chatterton Williams’s New Book: Yep, the book is really bad.
Post by @crimsonmayhem.bsky.social — Bluesky: AI is a responsibility avoidance mechanism.
Opinion | The Death of the Fourth American Republic - The New York Times: Excellent piece on how Roberts has centered racism in the American Constitution.
Some AI tools don’t understand biology yet - Ars Technica: Not surprising, but revealing.
AI Is A Money Trap: Your reminder that AI is not making money and likely never will.
What Do Commercials About A.I. Really Promise? | The New Yorker: AI is a thought avoidance mechanism.
Was the Renaissance Real? | The New Yorker: Fascinating look at how we define eras.
WNBA sex toy incidents may be linked to cryptocurrency group’s money scheme - The Athletic: Because of course it is.
AI disagreements - by Brian Merchant: A lot of people in charge of AI are apparently nuts.
An Abundance of Sleaze: How a Beltway Brain Trust Sells Oligarchy to Liberals: It is both true that we need to build more and some people in the center-left are using that first fact as cudgel to destroy social democracy.
NYPD head count doesn't correlate to crime rates, data suggests, despite candidate rhetoric - Gothamist: Increasing cops doe snot decrease crime.
Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens. - The New York Times: Detailed look at how a chat bot can literally make you insane.
Have the best possible week, everyone.