Why can’t all seasons be Fall and Spring? Anyway: words.
Meet The Broadway Actor Teaching Public Defenders How To Win In Court | Defector: Interesting look at how theatre impacts courtrooms.
Post by @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social — Bluesky: Fun thread about one of my favorite kinds of illusions.
Bones of Ancient Egyptian Princesses Reveal They Were Kind of Badass : ScienceAlert: Science will prove that a princess would have kicked your ass.
Prosecuting ICE’s Goons Will Be Hard—but Not Impossible | The New Republic: A blueprint for brining accountability to those who think they will never face justice.
Suing Stephen Miller - by Radley Balko - The Watch: Another route toward accountability for the worst of the worst.
Trump’s War on the Future, Monetary Edition: The Trump movement is about trying to freeze the world in what they imagine is their own image.
UCLA researchers develop low-cost blood test to detect multiple cancers and other diseases from a single sample | UCLA: Science will save your life.
Mr. Darcy is Not a Dreamboat - by Amy Colleen: Movies are almost never as good as the book, even adaptations of classics. Great essay.
Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster - The Atlantic: A hundred times this. American imitative AI firms, because they cannot think of any route other than pure power, will never produce economically viable imitative AI.
The Subprime Data Center Crisis: Same point, just with a ton of evidence and math.
The Supreme Court Is Helping ICE Agents Get Away With Murder - TPM – Talking Points Memo: The Supreme Court has removed all fiction that this is a nation of laws.
three's company town - by Allison Epstein: Yeah! Another Dirtbag through the Ages! And about one of the worst people to over grace America.
Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest - NOTUS — News of the United States: This administration is just filled with gutter racists.
What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all: The only thing imitative AI is good at is finding new and inventive ways to destroy the internet.
What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all: I used to watch ESPN all the time. I haven’t watched a non-live sporting event in years, and could not tell you the name of anyone who is at the network now outside of a couple podcasters I listen to.
Democrats' edge in midterms polling depends on how pollsters weight by party; Great explainer about the art of polling.
Goodbye, cavities? New gel could regrow tooth enamel | ScienceDaily: Science will save your teeth.
Europe 2031 is a bet, not a forecast: Excellent deconstruction of the latest piece of imitative AI fan fiction posing as analysis.
The tech-broification of American science has officially begun | The Verge: Trump is about to destroy American science.
Walking Alpe d’Huez on race day: Is the Tour de France’s ultimate mountain becoming a problem? - The Athletic: All the good and bad of sports fandom compressed onto one mountainside.
Have the best possible week, everyone.
Awesome! I love these lists (and your hilarious comments). How the heck do you find all this great stuff and save us the time of searching for things that aren’t nonsense or propaganda? Thanks (again)!