Back to the words this week.
How to find music you will love without the algorithm | The Verge: Algorithms suck, and this has a lot of good alternatives.
How To Watch Hockey | Defector: A beautiful ode, and seriously good set of advice, about watching the game I love.
The American Presidency Can Never Be Trusted Again: The Presidential Systme is a terrible mistake and needs to be torn out root and branch.
Following Firings And Grand Theft Auto VI Delay, Union Plans To Keep Pressure On Rockstar: Unions are good.
We’re Not Asking For Much, Angus: Dems don’t think strategically at all.
Stocks Aren’t Salvation - by Hamilton Nolan: How the ownership society distorts America.
OpenAI used song lyrics in violation of copyright laws, German court says: Of course this is a copyright violation.
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons & Dragons to Be Racist - The Atlantic: I miss when my dumb games where just dumb games and not guides for idiots and assholes on how to ruin the world.
the real romantasy fantasy - by BDM and Lyta Gold: Great piece of criticism by one of my favorite authors.
Why is the NHL aligning with prediction markets as others raise red flags? - The Athletic: This is going to end badly.
The Status Interview—Or How To Write Up a Senate Purge List - TPM – Talking Points Memo: I’ll talk more about this next week, but this has a lot of sense in it.
Reddit mod jailed for sharing movie sex scenes in rare “moral rights” verdict - Ars Technica: What the mod did actually gores somewhat beyond sharing, but an interesting application of moral rights.
You should quit social media for good: Probably true, and why I try to stick to Bluesky and it’s lack of algorithms.
What it’s like to be in the middle of a conspiracy theory (according to a conspiracy theory expert) | MIT Technology Review: Fascinating look at just how broken our information environment actually is.
The Last Word On Nothing | Why Science’s press team won’t be using AI to write releases anytime soon: Science does some science and turns down AI written PR.
How I Came to Be in the Epstein Files - The Atlantic: Alexandra Petri is a national treasure.
NHL players play with missing teeth. Why don’t they fix them? - The Athletic: I have wondered about this for years.
Another weird planetary system has been found: Science is weird.
AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds Wildly Inappropriate Things: These companies need to be brought to heal.
10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days - Uncanny Magazine: Lovely story.
Why the Suck Fairy exists • Buttondown: Another great piece of criticism by another great author.
The Shocking Truth About Gen Z Voters Is That They’re Pretty Great | The New Republic: The kids … er … the young adults are all right.
Have the best possible week, everyone.