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.