Big list this time, a fair amount election based. I tried to highlight items that spoke to the systemic environment, but you have been warned.
The US Is a Civic Desert. To Survive, the Democratic Party Needs to Transform Itself. | The Nation: I wrote something similar, but this is a real problem.
What Election Do These People Think We Just Had?: Reminder that when centrists start arguing that we should toss groups to the wolves, that we did what they wanted in 2024 and lost anyway.
The Party Should Throw Them a Party: Another argument for expanding the civic democracy via the Democratic party.
All The Things We've Learned After A Year Of Running Our Own Website - Aftermath: Running a media company is hard, but I am glad they do it.
On Elon Musk’s X, Republican tweets go viral as Democrats disappear - The Washington Post: The information environment for the Democratic Party is the worst it has ever been.
The Particle news app is using AI to compile stories and organize information - The Verge: It seems odd that people would trust imitative AI with its well-known bullshitting problem to generate summaries and make decisions about what news is important.
Six inane arguments about EVs and how to handle them at the dinner table - Ars Technica: Don’t want to argue about politics during the holidays? Argue about EVs!
Connor Bedard’s No Days Off – Chicago Magazine: Hey, hockey!
The Meaning of Star Wars is Chewbacca - by Noah Berlatsky: This has the best distillation of being a seven-year-old boy I think I have ever read.
The Resistance Is Dead. Long Live the Resistance?: Heartening look at how to non-pundit class is reacting to the election.
A history of the Dallas Cowboys' battle with the sun: This is the perfect summation of why it’s been so annoying to be a Cowboy fan for the last thirty years.
What did the snowball Earth look like? - Ars Technica: Science is cool. Literally this time.
Bluesky's success is a rejection of big tech's operating system: This is absolutely correct and you can find me there at kcraybould.bsky.social.
Have a great week, everyone!