Happy Memorial Day to Americans.
Bracing For The Next Redemption - by Brian Beutler: Excellent analysis.
Magic Thinking and the Divine Right of LLMs: Really good thought exercise.
Hawaii Just Found a Way to Keep Corporations Out of Politics - The American Prospect: This kind of thinking at the state level has to be a piece of how we revert the authoritarianism in the country.
Who's Afraid of a Velociraptor?: Lyta Gold on Jurassic Park: Lyta Gld is an excellent cultural critic. You should go buy her book.
LLMs Are Revealing How Low the Bar Is (And Lowering It Even Further): The problem isn’t LLM writing, per se. It is standards.
Democracy Is a Racial Entitlement Now - The Atlantic: Adam Sewer on the new Jim Crow
The AI Backlash Is an Opportunity for Democrats | The New Republic: the fact that Dems haven’t jumped on the backlash to a technology that is powered by people who hate them is a testament to how Citizens United has warped our politics.
Your Feed Is the Product of a Stealth Marketing Campaign: Capitalism ruins everything, eventually.
Greetings, Class of 2026! Have You Heard About AI? Wait, Why Are You Booing? - The Atlantic: Alexandra Petri is a national treasure.
The Perpetual Post - Reactor: I love time travel stories.
How Hennepin County unwound an ICE agent's web of lies: Justice might be coming for at least one ICE goon.
Anthropic's "Profitability" Swindle: This is notionally about imitative AI, but its really about how lose our accounting standards are as a country.
Android 17 Will Excite the Rich. But What About the Rest of Us? - CNET: Class war at CNET? What next, ˆThe Economist advocating for a higher minimum wage? Article’s not wrong, either.
The Inconvenient Faith of Stephen Colbert: Wonderful look at what makes Colbert truly special.
PYMNTS | Starbucks Dumps AI-Powered Inventory Tool Due to Errors: You cannot trust imitative AI, especially over a large task or timeframe. We invented barcodes for a reason, dear Starbuck clueless CEO.
Who’s to Blame When Cornell’s President Drives Into His Students? - The Ringer: The single most important thing that needs to be done about saving Americna Universities and the economic and cultural engines that they drive is to take them out of the hands of people who hate them.
You can no longer Google the word 'disregard' | TechCrunch: I am amazed the Onion can stay in business.
Have the best possible week, and if you have tomorrow off, I hope you get to have fun with the people closest to you.