Remember when the US used to fight fascists?
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all - The Washington Post: They must be held to account for this.
Lane Kiffin’s latest leap shows why the college player revolution was needed - The Athletic: Great read on the hyperventilation around college football.
The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector: Roth gets to the heart of the matter.
Olivia Nuzzi’s RFK affair book was going to be self-serving. It’s so much worse than that.: An incredible review of an apparently terrible book by a definitively terrible person.
One reason to say ‘no thanks’ to all 32 NHL teams after Thanksgiving - The Athletic: Okay, enough of that holiday cheer and fellow-feeling.
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself: An incredibly important read.
ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the ‘Haters,’ Indictment Says: OpenAI does not provide much evidence that it cares if you live or die.
Elon Musk’s Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People: X needs to be shut down.
Vital Cat Update – Chuck Wendig: Terribleminds: Is imitative aI wrong, or is Chuck Wendig going through a suspicious number of cats?
The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Never did trust that oversized elf.
Jets’ Gabriel Vilardi opens up about mental health struggles: ‘You just see the negatives’ - The Athletic: Always nice to see athletes attacking the stigma of mental health issues.
Have the best possible week, everyone.
Thank you for these excellent lists! What a gift. The piece on the AI University is especially good, right on target. I’m a professor for 30 years, worked at many elite universities and two big state universities. That analysis is right on target. Very visible rapid transformation of higher education happening. The effect on students is catastrophic.