The one weird monopoly trick that gave us Walmart and Amazon and killed Main Street | by Cory Doctorow | Aug, 2024 | Medium: Amazon and Walmart have bene breaking the law for decades. Maybe now something will be done about it.
In Defense of Bidenomics - The American Prospect: Biden’s economic polies have done better than every other industrialized nation.
Procreate’s anti-AI pledge attracts praise from digital creatives - The Verge: It will be interesting to see of this draws people from Adobe.
How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find : ScienceAlert: We can save the planet from global climate change. We just need to eat a lot of oranges …
Swift Could Sue Trump Under State Law for Fake AI Endorsement (404media.co): Good overview of what Trump did and why he’s likely liable under new state laws meant to provet, well, fake endorsements, among other misinformation.
‘The Blind Side’ Made Him Famous. But He Has a Different Story to Tell. - The New York Times (nytimes.com): Michael Lewis needs to explain hiimself.
Opinion | Let’s fact-check some historic speeches - The Washington Post: The Washington Post “fact check” of the DNC was so bad that even one of their own columnists skewered it.
Chappell Roan Confronts The Sickness Of Modern Fandom | Defector: Nice reminder that these are people who owe you nothing than their art.
Andrej Karpathy Is in Trouble - by Dan Meyer - Mathworlds (substack.com): Nice overview of why almost all edutech fails.
I Kinda Hate Everything About Tech - Trend Mill (trend-mill.com): Nice rant about why tech is garbage today.
Is high school football morally tenable? Three more deaths raise familiar questions | US sports | The Guardian: Interesting perspective on a sport that has a lot of questions.
Some coaches worry about ‘deterioration of football,’ but data tells a complex story - The Athletic (nytimes.com): A different opinion on the high school football.
After cybersecurity lab wouldn’t use AV software, US accuses Georgia Tech of fraud | Ars Technica: Some people are too arrogant for their own good.
Annual Cat Tour Draws 500 People to Historic Minnesota Neighborhood (Exclusive): But how do they get the cats to come to the windows?
Have a great weekend, everyone!