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Sunday Good Reads for March 30, 2025 [1]
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Date: 2025-03-30
A fair amount of sports. What can I say? Everyone needs distractions.
What we learned from MLB’s spring robot-umpire test: Players, managers, execs weigh in - The Athletic: I hate this system.
Cold War Kids - The American Prospect: Not sure I entirely agree with this, but its an interesting perspective on the show Severance.
Starship Will Simply Never Work - by Will Lockett: Interesting look at the likely failing finances of Musk’s Starship.
Who Gave Away the Skies to the Airlines? | The Nation: How airline deregulation lead to the end of America. Exaggerating, but only a little.
The Phony Comforts of AI Optimism: Long (I mean, it is Zitron) but well argued look at the dangers to imitative AI business.
The Human Cost of Jeff Landry’s Drive to Resume Executions | Bolts: The death penalty kills innocent people.
After borking my Pixel 4a battery, Google borks me, too - Ars Technica: Monopolies suck.
How Polestar engineers EVs that can handle brutal winters - Ars Technica: Very cool (sorry, sorry) about EV batteries and how companies try and cold-weather proof them.
Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot: Oh goodie — a whole group of people addicted to the bullshit machines.
The Existential Threat of Ultra-Billionaires - The American Prospect: We need to take white collar crime as seriously as street crime.
A Review of “In Covid’s Wake”: According to Laptop Class Professors, the Heroes of the Pandemic Were Laptop Class Professors | Science-Based Medicine: Our elites learned nothing from COVID, and the next pandemic is going to be even worse.
Saint Francis announces plans to reclassify from DI to DIII 1 week after NCAA Tournament loss - The Athletic: I suspect having to pay athletes is going to shrink the number of schools competing at the highest level.
Opinion | Trump and Musk Are Suffering From Soros Derangement Syndrome - The New York Times: The headline does not reflect the content, a very smart look at how Trump and his people cannot comprehend that they are not popular.
OpenAI's Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itself: Yep
Why White Sox fans still showed up on Opening Day: ‘It’s delusion that feeds me’ - The Athletic: Because, like all fans, we are delusional.
They Are Going to Take Everything If We Don't Stop Them: Unions need to fight.
The reactionary right is not a monolith - by Henry Farrell: Trump’s super power is keeping the various factions on the right from turning on each other.
“The First 48” and the Wrongly Convicted Man — ProPublica: The First 48 really seems to have contributed to a wrongful conviction.
The CDC buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for vaccinations: RFK jr. kept life saving information form the public.
Select All Bicycles - Uncharted: Odd, uplifting story.
Have the best possible weekend, everyone.
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