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Sunday Good Reads for March 9th, 2025 [1]
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Date: 2025-03-09
A good crop this week.
The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse | The super-rich | The Guardian: The belief that you can and deserve to survive when everyone else arounds you suffers and dies is a sickness that is poisoning our entire society.
Mother, Should I Build a Wall?: Great personal essay
It’s not Dickens—it’s the MAGA agenda - by Jennifer Rubin: Except that Dikens wrote better villains than Musk and Trump
A Student Called Me a “Dick-rider.” Here’s What I Said: We don’t pay teachers enough.
‘Man with the golden arm’: Grandfather whose rare blood saved millions of babies dies aged 88 | The Independent: An absolute hero.
Hero USAID Employee Canned For Telling World DOGE Is Starving People To Death: Musk and Trump are literally killing people.
What if Generative AI Signals Decline and Stagnation, Not a Productivity Boost? - TheFutureEconomy.ca: Nice counter to the hype.
MacKenzie Scott Nice Time Update! - by Marcie Jones: If you trust people to do their jobs, they do them. The rest of the charity industrial complex could stand to learn this lesson.
Cellebrite Is Using AI to Summarize Chat Logs and Audio from Seized Mobile Phones: How can it be legal to use a tool that is known to introduce errors as a basis for law enforcement activity?
If Only 19th-Century America Had Listened to a Woman Scientist - Nautilus: Depressing if fascinating story about the history of women in science and global warming.
An American's guide to the Bobsled/Skeleton World Championships: I love these odd sports.
The Tech Barons have a blueprint drawn in crayon. They have not thought any of this through.: Excellent take down of a fatuous book, but it is more than a little scary that the author of said book is held up as a genius by our tech overlords.
The Tyranny of Public Opinion: The worst thing that liberals embraced coming out of the Obama era was the “Green Lantern Theory of Politics” — mocking the idea that public opinion can be changed by politicians and the media. And now here we are.
The Stench Of Weakness - by Brian Beutler - Off Message: Beutler nails why so many of us are disgusted with Democratic leadership.
CMU research shows compression alone may unlock AI puzzle-solving abilities - Ars Technica: Science is cool.
An Interview With A Fired NOAA Budget Analyst | Defector: And so are government employees.
Have the best possible week, everyone.
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