A few words worth reading.
Woman Cured of Sickle Cell Disease and Lifelong Pain with New Treatment: Science will cure your disease.
Who’s Minnesota’s ‘Blanket Lady’? More than a superfan, she was a women’s basketball pioneer - The Athletic: Sports can be wholesome.
No officers will be disciplined after protesters falsely charged as gang members: These officers should be in jail.
Jessi Pierce will be remembered for the heart, humor and zest she had for the Wild — and life - The Athletic: Moving piece for their lost friend.
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me | The Verge: They key to getting The Verge to take on tech CEOs to their faces is apparently to mess with their income potential.
Ghost in the Machine’s Valerie Veatch isn’t drinking the AI Kool-Aid | The Verge: Very disturbing information.
This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts: AI is mostly about slop and extraction.
Meta misled users about its products’ safety, jury decides | The Verge: Now that Section 230 is no longer a blanket immunity, I suspect we will see many more of these verdicts.
Opinion | There’s a Reason Air Travel Is Such a Mess - The New York Times: We, as a nation, simply refuse to pay to keep our civilization.
Bombshell Jack Smith Report Reveals Why Trump Hoarded Classified Docs | The New Republic: Trump apparently stole the country’s most secret documents in order to make himself money.
Yankees’ Netflix debut is latest example of sports’ complicated TV landscape - The Athletic: Cable was so much better than streaming.
Ann Wolbert Burgess - by Erin C. Niumata - Erin’s Third Act: Fascinating bit of hidden history.
Hegseth Strikes Two Black and Two Female Officers From Promotion List - The New York Times: This admin is pure gutter racism.
Iran Is Winning the AI Slop Propaganda War: Interesting look at propaganda in the AI slop era.
AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money – Pivot to AI: Is this good? I’m not sure this is good.
Have the best possible week, everyone.