There are now words for what happened in Minnesota this weekend. ICE needs to be abolished, DHS needs to be broken apart, and people need to be prosecuted. It seems odd to focus on anything else, so I am going to list some ways to help those in Minneapolis and Minnesota today. Beyond that, perhaps the more mundane reads can help provide some relief.
Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory: A comprehensive list of vetted organizations that are helping people withstand the siege of Minnesota. Any amount helps, and there are organizations helping in almost every way.
In My Country by Thomas Ha : Clarkesworld Magazine – Science Fiction & Fantasy: Disturbingly topical story.
Archaeologists find a supersized medieval shipwreck in Denmark - Ars Technica: Science will find you the big ass boats.
the real tin thing - by BDM - Notebook: A moving tribute to a teacher.
Driverless cars promise a revolution. But can they handle the British weather?: Probably not.
Your Guide To Bluesky, The Official App of Sports: Bluesky really does have the sense of community that Twitter used to around sporting events.
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95: An amazing woman and one of the people who made it possible for you to never get lost.
Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home: Well reported story on the kind of abuse ICE puts even citizens through. Ms. Kabas is well worth the price of a subscription.
boulder and wiser - by Allison Epstein: Another great dirtbag story from the funniest historian on the internet. Another subscription well worth your money.
NeurIPS research papers contained 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims | Fortune: Is flooding scientific papers with bullshit helping science? Cause it really doesn’t seem like a good idea to me.
Are 'Jeopardy!' Contestants Really That Bad At Questions About Sports? | Defector: They aren’t, but the real fun in this article is the look at how Jeopardy structures its question list.
Silk Roads and So. Many. Mountains. | Patreon: Interesting look at how historical maps are drawn.
Elon Musk’s Grok A.I. Chatbot Made Millions of Sexualized Images, New Estimates Show - The New York Times: X is a non-consensual and child porn creation platform at this point and any decent society would have already arrested the people, including Musk, responsible.
Rollback Racket | Washington Monthly: Hey, despite what conservative lawyers want you to believe, it turns out monopolies are bad for consumers! Who knew?
Turns out David Brooks didn’t really mean any of it: The rot in our elite runs deep.
America Needs Greenland. No—Iceland. Actually, Never Mind! - The Atlantic: Alexandra Petri is a national treasure.
The scientific case for ping-pong: Why athletes — and you — should play more table tennis - The Athletic: Science will get you to play a game.
The extraordinary story of a soccer coach, a kidnapping and a Saudi job that didn’t exist - The Athletic: Amazing story.
Kash Patel’s FBI Is Making America Less Safe, Current and Former Employees Say - The New York Times: Actual FBI agents detail just how much damage Kash Patel and Donald Trump are doing to your safety.
The Five Farcical Principles of the ‘CBS Evening News’ - The Ringer: Unsurprisingly, the principles are empty nonsense.
AI bot swarms threaten to undermine democracy: This seems bad.
Michael Connelly Should Stick To Fake Crime | Defector: I dislike true crime in part because of stories like this.
We Must Establish The Run Against Authoritarianism: Good advice for these terrible times.
Have the best possible week, everyone.