Man, this year is taking forever.
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.
How to Film ICE | WIRED: Advice for those who might need it.
‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks | ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) | The Guardian: Aside from the destruction of the tourism industry, which employees more people than, say, coal mining, the human cost is intolerable.
Post by @reasie.bsky.social — Bluesky: Facebook is like this because it is allowed to be an unregulated monopoly.
Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss: If you love your kids, you will keep them as far away form imitative AI is humanely possible.
Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web: This needs to be made illegal with life as the punishment.
How far back in time can you understand English?: This is extraordinarily cool.
A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them | Ukraine | The Guardian: Interesting look at the run up to the invasion of Ukraine. A bit CIA-pilled, but fascinating nonetheless.
What Not Reading Does to Your Writing - by Lincoln Michel: TV is not the same as books, and you should not write as if they are.
beast lightin', go beast lightnin' - by Allison Epstein: I love these Dirtbag Through The Ages so much. Go subscribe, of you haven’t already.
The Case For Billionaire Realism - by Brian Beutler: Very good look at why billionaires must be dealt with.
Are Autonomous Vehicles Safer Than Human Drivers? We Don't Know Yet - Bloomberg: Nope. At least, not in any provable way.
DOJ removed, withheld Epstein files related to accusations about Trump : NPR: Trump certainly acts as if he did something horrible.
The Epstein Scandal Reveals the Dark Side of Bipartisanship | The New Republic: Long past time for our elites to be held accountable.
The GOP’s Nazi Problem - The Atlantic: The wealthy and the press in this country made it a scandal to be to the left of JFK while supporting fascists garnered merely a shrug. And now they wonder how we got here.
AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data - Ars Technica: Imitative AI is a plagiarism machine.
DCCC Scores Massive Palantir and SpaceX Lobbyist Cash Haul: Sigh. we have so, so much work to do.
The Epstein class - by Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims: Again, our elites need disciplining immediately.
Armed ICE officer in Portland called 911 during confrontation: ‘I’m going to have to shoot this kid’ - OPB: This loser had no compulsion about telling a dispatcher, as he is being recorded, that he as going to shoot a kid for following him on a bike. Abolish ICE is the compromise position.
Boston’s World Cup games hang in balance amid finger pointing over a missing $7.8m - The Athletic: Good for Foxboro.
Almost No One Needs College Algebra Anymore | Washington Monthly: A really interesting argument.
How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account - The Atlantic: Elite impunity has destroyed this country.
Collections: Warfare in Dune, Part I: Fighting Faufreluches – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry: A fun look at how plausible Dune’s militaries actually are. More than I thought, it turns out.
Have the best possible week, everyone.
This will be a very long year. I read several articles, "Don't Go the the US". So fucked, who'd want to visit let alone live here? You've got to read to write, they are so entangled, never to be separated, says Linus to Charlie Brown. No NHL ? What about that guy who scored the final point as he spit his teeth out? Jesus, what they suffer for the sport. Happy week to you !!!