Lazy Sunday.
But first, a vetted charity to help Haitians who are about to be attacked by the government.
GOP Staffers Say the Party Has a Groyper Problem - POLITICO: It is tempting to make a water is wet joke, but it is good when the conservative party tries to rid itself of bigots.
The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s 'high five' photos: All together now: awwww.
Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. - The New York Times: Blue states like New York and California should insist that text books call it the Slaver’s Rebellion.
NHL players play with missing teeth. Why don’t they fix them? - The Athletic: I had no idea i need this information until I read this article. But I did. And now you do, too.
OpenAI’s amazing — but vastly oversold — new model Astra: We would do well to remember that much of what is revealed by these firms is marketing.
An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it - Ars Technica: These kinds of things sort of amuse me. The modern LLM-based systems copy and imitate — that is how they can be good at, say, programming in Java but dog’s bollocks at assembly language. One has a lot of open source data available, one does not. These kinds of test surveillance systems haven’t ever really worked well, so who would imagine that introducing the hallucination machine to the mix would improve them?
Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees | The New Republic: They are destroying everything that made America great — all in order ot give tax cuts to the Epstein class.
Did SEO experts ruin the internet or did Google? | The Verge: Yes, with an assist from Google. Next question.
A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame? | WIRED: Someone screwed up lethally, even if the article doesn’t make it clear. Beyond that, someone could ruin with airline travel with a bit of kit.
The AI Demand Bubble: Zitron is long, but he packs his posts with compelling information.
Sen. Wyden Report: Banks Systematically Ignored Jeffrey Epstein’s Crimes - The American Prospect: And yet, no one will go to jail for this. We need to shatter the elite sense of immunity.
Post by @janerosenzweig.bsky.social — Bluesky: AI is bad for education.
rent, always rent - Dan Davies - "Back of Mind": Really good piece on the Law of Rent.
How headlights got brighter, whiter, and more blinding after dark - Ars Technica: It is not your imagination — headlights are brighter.
Governing without Accountability - by Don Moynihan: This is why I do not think, long term, the United States survives. Conservatives have spent the last thirty or forty years teaching people that not all Americans are Americans, and this is the result. Either the propaganda changes, or we are going to reach a breaking point.
Vanderbilt’s Board Declares War Against Academic Freedom: Red states are destroying academic freedom in the service of conservative propaganda.
Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part Va: Putting It Together – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry: I am such a dork.
Have the best possible week, everyone.