Sunday Good Reads for August 24th, 2025

College football strted this weekend. And since colleges are apparently all about STREM now, they started counting at week zero, just like good computer programmers. (This is now in the running for the nerdiest “joke” I have ever written.)

WKRP: Johnny Fever: What if you could here Johnny Fever’s show? Well, now you can.

MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI: Oops.

The Fair Share Amendment is delivering - CommonWealth Beacon: taxing the super rich works very, very well.

Read Whatever the Hell You Want - by Charlotte Clymer: Amen.

The Grand Ballroom Theory of Literature - by Lincoln Michel: Great essay and a great metaphor.

Opinion | The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism - The New York Times: A brillaint and useful look at how bullshit passes itself off as science.

People Are Trying to ‘Deprogram’ Their MAGA Parents Through Book Clubs | WIRED: One hopes there is a hell so that Rupert Murdoch can enjoy his time there.

WeatherStar 4000+: Today’s weather in the form of the Weather Channel from the 90s and I love it.

The Budding Rivalry of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner | The New Yorker: Fun look at rhe future of men’s tennis.

‘Severance’ Doesn’t Work Without Tramell Tillman’s Milchick: There is no severabce without Milchick, and I hope that Tillman wins his well deserved Emmy.

William J. Burns: A Letter to America's Discarded Public Servants - The Atlantic: We need to protect these people.

Google says a typical AI text prompt only uses 5 drops of water — experts say that’s misleading | The Verge: the fac that they tried t pass this shady report off suggests that they know the impact is very bad.

Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell Law Enforcement Failures (1996-2025): The lack of accountability for the rich and elite is killing this country.

I Can't Stand John Bolton and We Need to Defend Him: It is not good when the authoritarians attack bad people with dictitorial methods. The more they are allowed to get awa with, the more they will push.

Against Vulgar Positivism - by John Ganz - Unpopular Front: Data, and I say this as someone who uses and depends upon data in his professinal life, can never, ever tell you what to do. It can only tell you what the results are of what has been done.

James Dobson, Godfather of Child Abuse, Finally Dies: Amen.

Hope you have the best possible week.