Stil not dead. Modern medicine is awesome.
Spyware turned this Kansas high school into a 'red zone' of dystopian surveillance • Kansas Reflector: This is horrible, and what we teach our kids about proper boundaries is scary.
Judge: Police dog attack didn't violate woman's rights | AP News: Conservative judicial movement is flat evil.
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry (acoup.blog): Just a great bit of history and cultural commentary.
Researchers find evidence of early humans in Senegal, Cameroon and Malawi - The Washington Post: Early humans apparently got around.
The gymnastics world braces for an AI future (theverge.com): The headline is a bit misleading — this is mostly about how AI isn’t really ready for prime time in this space.
Sabrina Javellana Was a Rising Star in Florida Politics. Then the Deepfakes Started. - The New York Times (nytimes.com): We need better laws and enforcement to reign these actions in.
Amazon forced to recall 400K products that could kill, electrocute people | Ars Technica: The real takeaway here is that Amazon has been allowed to not do proper recalls.
Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI (futurism.com): Maybe because imitative AI produces sucky output?
Why CVS and Target Locking Up Products Is Backfiring - Bloomberg: Huh. The great shoplifting scare was bullshit AND resulted in a shopping experience that only Kafka could love? Who could have guessed.
Straight to your inbox: meet the journalists shaking up local UK news | Regional & local newspapers | The Guardian: A nice reminder that news is profitable, it’s just not profitable enough ot survive the predations of private equity.
What's In An Olympian's Name? | Defector: Fascinating look at how names are translated into English.
Have a great week everyone!