How Fighting Monopoly Can Save Journalism | Washington Monthly: Monopolies are bad for pretty much everything.
Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find (404media.co): It’s not you — Google scientifically sucks now.
BART new car fleet under budget - Trains: If you don’t waste money on privatization, good things happen.
hugo, glen coco - by Allison Epstein (substack.com): They did not teach about THIS aspect of Victo Hugo in high school. Also, go subscribe to Allison’s newsletter. She is the most consistently funny person I read.
A Technologist Spent Years Building an AI Chatbot Tutor. He Decided It Can’t Be Done. | EdSurge News: Word calculators are not good at personalization — they write to the average/most likely.
How I managed to sell my first big expensive TV show to SyFy, and lived to tell the tale! (jakethorntonwrites.com): I enjoy stories about the creative process and how it interacts with capitalism. This is a good one.
The myth of technological inevitability - by Dave Karpf (substack.com): Great reminder that we don’t have to accept technology changes on anything other than society’s collective terms — not those of the people who stand to make the money from the hype.
Domestic Textile Industry Crashing Because of Trade Loophole - The American Prospect: Reminder that there is no such thing as free trade, just rules that benefit one group of capitalists over workers.
Opinion | It’s possible the pastor who scammed for a home remodel misheard God - The Washington Post: Happens to me all the time.
Incarceration and crime rates both down sharply since 2018 reforms - CommonWealth Beacon: Progressive reforms have worked in Massachusetts.
Penn Jillette Wants to Talk It All Out | Cracked.com: Penn talks about, in part, his maturation away from libertarianism.
Get Ready for the Great AI Disappointment | WIRED: This is much more likely a scenario than anything approaching out of control general artificial intelligence.
Have the best possible week, everyone.