Man, it’s still only February ….
‘Girls can have short hair, get over it’: How a youth team campaigned against prejudice - The Athletic: The kids are all right.
Kat Beaufort: "Thanks to the failures of the fundue education system, my classmates didn't know what those words meant. Thanks to Granddad, I DID. You know what you should never say to a third-grader who's read Number the Stars? "Let's go play Concentration Camp!"" — Bluesky: The kid were all right back in the day.
The Generative AI Con: Imitative AI has no clothes.
On Substack, Meritocracy Is a Myth - by Noah Berlatsky: Noah reminds us of the salience of luck in success.
Big Tech Has Disrupted the Social Contract: Excellent look at what Silicon Valley has cost us.
Elon Musk and the Decline of Western Civilization: Musk as avatar for the end of civilization.
Scientists Discover Ancient Farms in the Deep Sea: Science is cool.
Fired federal workers share the crucial jobs no longer being done: DOGE is only about hampering the government’s ability to investigate Musk and being performatively cruel to people how dare do hard work on behalf of their country.
This EV could reboot medium-duty trucking by not reinventing the wheel - Ars Technica: Good look at the kinds of small-scale improvements that will get us to a carbon free economy.
Practical Childcare Considerations for Knights Errant - PSYCHOPOMP.COM: A fun little story to take us into the week.
Have the best possible week, everyone.