Another good haul this week. I probably need to get out more.
Flowers grown floating on polluted waterways can help clean up nutrient runoff | Ars Technica: Science is cool
Is This the End of the Private Practice Therapist? - Mental Health Match: therapists given only so many words to respond to “I want to kill myself” is horrific and should not be allowed.
red lead redemption - by Allison Epstein (substack.com): Allison is hilarious, go subscribe to her newsletter.
The Haunted Juror | The New Yorker: A compelling look at how bad verdicts happen. And they should have listened to the woman who didn’t believe the police.
The AI community needs to take copyright lawsuits seriously (understandingai.org): These copyright lawsuits may not be as easy a won as AI supporters hope.
Goodbye Blue Sky - by Laura Durnell (substack.com): Wonderful take down of anti-PBS/CPB nonsense.
How to Stop Worrying and Love the Rewrite - Part 1 (substack.com); Great advice about revising/rewriting from professionals.
How Google is killing independent sites like ours - HouseFresh: Google is killing the web and with it any reason to trust Google Search results. Seems short-sighted.
Why Capitalism is Failing Digital Media - by S Peter Davis (substack.com): Just what it says on the label, with some potential options ot help thrown in.
Chinese firm’s leaked files show vast international hacking effort - The Washington Post: it has always struck me as odd that we continue to reward nations that steal from us with trade deals.
Understanding the Tragic Death of Nex Benedict (readtpa.com): Great commentary on the underlying worldview that leads to a child being beaten to death.
Two years of war in Ukraine: What the Pentagon has learned - The Washington Post: The drones have come for the battlefield, and the Pentagon is trying to figure out what to do about them.
Google’s Waymo expansion in California delayed as safety concerns rise - The Washington Post: Cities don’t want these things on their street because they are too dumb to handle city traffic.
Texas hospital refused to treat woman’s life-threatening ectopic pregnancy - The Washington Post: Ant-abortion laws are interferences with women’s health care.
Fireside FridayHow John Denver Helped Me Find My Way Back Home (substack.com), February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism) – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry (acoup.blog): Fascists are bad at everything —- but they are especially bad at war.
RTO doesn’t improve company value, but does make employees miserable: Study | Ars Technica: Return to office orders don’t help the bottom line and piss off your employees. What’s not to like?
How John Denver Helped Me Find My Way Back Home (substack.com): Go call your parents is an entirely inadequate response to this great piece of writing. But go call your parents.