Many words. Most of them interesting.
Blue Cross Defrauded Breast Cancer Center, Must Pay $421M, Jury Finds — ProPublica: Private health insurance is a scam.
Why Vance Committed So Hard to the Minneapolis Shooter - The Atlantic: Vance has no morals.
[2601.02671] Extracting books from production language models: LLM based AIs are plagarism machines.
NFL wild-card playoffs: What went wrong for five losing teams? - ESPN: ESPN is generally a shadow of its past self, but Barnwell, Mina Kimes and Dominique Foxworth are the best football analysts around.
How to build a radically truthful news outlet: The standards we should be holding all news orgnizations to.
The Tiger Is Paper - by Brian Beutler - Off Message: Excellent analysis.
Roblox’s AI-Powered Age Verification Is a Complete Mess | WIRED: I suspect Roblox is fine with this as they make a ton of money off kids.
Does Congress Even Want Power Anymore? | The New Republic: Our Constitution is broken.
Cop Used Flock to Wrongfully Accuse a Woman Then Refused to Look at Evidence That Exonerated Her, Body Camera Shows: Policing is completely broken in this country.
The Liam Coen-Lynn Jones moment, the backlash and why journalism is still worth defending - The Athletic: Important defense of journalism
Joiner and Rust - Reactor: Sweet story.
Do I Like It? Reflecting on Divergent After 15 Years: Fascinating look by an author of a successful, but critically mixed at best, series of books on those books now that time has passed.
Resisting AI Mania in Schools - Rethinking Schools: AI requires people who understand things to be even remotely useful, but if you don’t train people without AI, they don’t learn and therefor cannot make AI even remotely useful.
More Paul - by Lindsey Adler - Critical Thinking: Thoughtful look at Paul McCartney’s legacy.
Could a Simple Nasal Drop Treat the Deadliest Brain Cancer?: Science will save your life in new and interesting ways.
Bots All the Way Down - Lightspeed Magazine: Our future is terrible and amazing.
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program - The New York Times: There need to be sttues to this man.
How Polymarket and Kalshi Have Taken Over the World - The Ringer: Gambling is destorying this country.
Trump-Administration Officials Describe an Elementary-School Drop-Off - The Atlantic: Where is the satire?
Ciji Graham Died Unable to Get Heart Care or an Abortion in North Carolina — ProPublica: Abortion is healthcare, and if you don’t get healthcare, you can die.
David Nozzolillo's wild night as an EBUG for the Chicago Blackhawks - ESPN: EBUGs are the greatest rule in sports.
Have the best possible week, everyone.
I see some very interesting reads on your list. After my chores are done I'll check them out. Actually screw the chores, it's Sunday, Day of Rest....and I'd rather be reading while you do the writing. Happy Sunday !!!