Words for a smoke-filled weekend.
ICE are heavily armed killers. They’re also huge losers | The Verge: Truth.
Police training didn't make me confident in law enforcement | Opinion: Police are trained to be violent toward civilians.
U.S. Publishers Sue Google, Alleging Massive Copyright Infringement Behind Its Gemini AI Service - Publishing Perspectives: A different approach to the imitative AI theft.
AI Made Cloning Games Easier Than Ever: Interesting look at what slop coding is and is not.
The See-No-Evil Supreme Court - The Atlantic: This is the most racist court since at least the Second World War.
The political economy of billionaire derangement: A touch complicated— I think the sycophancy explains this pretty well - but still interesting.
The OpenAI Bubble: It’s a bubble and the only question is what happens when it pops.'
‘I Don’t Want To Die’: Texas Patients Are Afraid to Get Pregnant - Ms. Magazine: Abortion bans kill women.
Sex Doll Company Creates AI Teachers For New York School District: There are no words for how horrible this is.
The depressing sameness of ICE murders - by Lisa Needham: Depressing but accurate.
A car crash nearly killed ESPN’s Matt Miller. Then came the fraud allegations. - The Athletic: Wild story.
The Case Against Judicial Review - The American Prospect: I find this very compelling.
A Perfectly Crude Solution to America’s Housing Shortage - The Atlantic: Paying people off, apparently, works.
Researchers shed new light on ancient concrete’s extraordinary durability - Berkeley Engineering: Science will keep Roman stuff form falling apart.
Researchers shed new light on ancient concrete’s extraordinary durability - Berkeley Engineering: Noah Smith is a hack.
One judge has the guts to put the horror of this Supreme Court term in context.: A judge calls out the Supreme Court’s horrible actions in plain and clear language.
Zohran Mamdani Knows He Has Political Capital. And He Intends to Spend It. - The New York Times: excellent interview with America’s best mayor.
Have the best possible week, everyone.