Dead car batteries suck. The following articles are more insightful and no less trues.
Scavenging in the Media Wastelands: Or, Substacking While Trying to Make a Living Writing: Writing isn’t a career any more, not in the sense that normal people can make a living doing it.
OpenAI sued over ChatGPT’s alleged role in guiding FSU shooter: These products are faulty and OpenAI should pay for this.
I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian: Fascinating article about how a teacher dealt with imitative AI in writing class.
Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain: AI slop is a difference in kind from the normal garbage we have had to live with until know.
Longtime NBA Photographer Nathaniel S. Butler Explains How He Sees Basketball | Defector: Great discussion about how a photographer makes art out of basketball.
Exclusive: She Helped Plan Her Teen's Abortion, So CPS Took Her Daughter Away: Red states are coercing children to give birth. Monsters.
Violent crime plummets in “Democrat run cities” blasted by Trump: The least understood story of the last two decades is jsut how much crime has cratered in the US.
Sony’s ‘Underperformance’ Is Bungie’s Miracle: Number go up mindset destorys every perfectly profitable business it infests.
“Will I be OK?” Teen died after ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says - Ars Technica: These products are defective to the point of actively helping to kill people and their creators needs to be held accountable.
FBI Created ‘Payback Squad’ to Handle Political Cases, Sources Say - NOTUS — News of the United States: Gonna need to fumigate the entire government when he is gone.
Meet the Sad Wives of AI | WIRED: This sounds really terrible for these poor women.
Can more NFL teams copy the Rams' TE-heavy offense in 2026? - ESPN: I love these kind of deep looks into the rules underlying the chaos of NFL offenses.
Dr. Thomas Weiner Patient Endured Years of Chemotherapy for Nonexistent Cancer — ProPublica: Amazing and horrifying story.
Museum baffled by 'Knight Rider' look-alike car's traffic ticket | AP News: Has anyone seen David Hasselhoff recently?
The Saddest Place In America Is Wherever The Washington Post Films This Podcast | Defector: Our rich people are truly broken.
Key West couple sues after being told to paint over rainbow fence: There is no freedom of expression in red states.
Truth, power, and honest journalism - by Radley Balko: Most right wing reporting is propaganda, not reporting.
What's Fun, Not What's Easy • Buttondown: Great writing advice.
Make Temporary Disposable Art! It's Fun! • Buttondown: Also great writing advice.
Andon Labs’ AI radio stations show why Grok and Gemini can’t be trusted | The Verge: in Claude’s case, the revolution will apparently be hallucinated.
Have the best possible week, everyone.
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Dang this world has very sour, deathly notes! What a roundup! Thanks for sharing this batch. Helps to know some people are....at least being reported on if not stopping their heinous and harmful BS.