Sorry for the light week last week. I ended up in the emergency room. Don’t put off trips to the doctor, boys and girls. You can end up much worse.
My Greek town doesn’t need more tradwives (substack.com): Nice defense of feminism.
The Tech Baron Seeking to Purge San Francisco of “Blues” | The New Republic: Too many tech leaders have gone insane since the world has stopped patting them on the head for reinventing buses.
Opinion | A new Founding Father time-travels to stop Trump’s immunity - The Washington Post: Why doesn’t Petri have a Pulitzer?
AI is making Meta’s apps basically unusable - Fast Company: And too many Tech leaders are chasing Wall Street approval instead of making good products.
Elliott Abrams and the Contradictions of U.S. Human-Rights Policy | The New Yorker: “Ray, if Issac Chotiner asks you for an interview, you say NO!”
Cigna’s nopeinator. When computer says no, doctors are the… | by Cory Doctorow | Apr, 2024 | Medium: IN a just world, Cigna executives would go to jail for this.
AI is causing massive hiring discrimination based on disability | The Hill: Remember, AI is often about the means of pretending a human ins’t breaking the law, a machine is.
Revealing the identity of Prospect X, the most overlooked player in the 2024 NFL Draft - The Athletic: Football has plenty of problems, but these kinds of stories still warm my cold little heart.
Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer | Ars Technica: Anybody want to go in on this? I got a twenty.
Artemisia Gentileschi on How to Properly Decapitate a Man (substack.com): Fascinating look at how men and women have painted the same scene and what that says about our culture and art.
How ‘Star Wars’ Fan Edits Saved the Original Movies - The New York Times (nytimes.com): These people are both insane and amazing.
Italic & Bold (heartlines-spec.com): And finally, a lovely little story.
Enjoy the week everyone, and don’t ignore your health!