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Sunday Good Reads for June 1st, 2025 [1]
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Date: 2025-06-01
Decent haul this week, fairly biased towards science.
Crypto Investor Charged With Kidnapping and Torturing Man for Weeks - The New York Times: Crypto is pretty much crime and gambling and too much electrical power usage.
Fountain of Youth movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert: The review is pleasantly vicious, but the phenomenon it describes is worth understanding.
Opinion | Humans believe they understand their dogs. Our research gave us pause. - Washington Post: Okay fine — but I still don’t understand how you tell if a dog is wagging its tail to the left or the right.
The key to a successful egg drop experiment? Drop it on its side. - Ars Technica: At no point in my school career did I ever manage to do this successfully.
Opinion | We don’t have an education crisis in America - The Washington Post: Public schools are good, actually.
Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: As a business, AI really doesn’t seem to be viable.
How America got so weird: The Pilgrims made us do it | Salon.com: fascinating look at how our history has made America so conspiracy minded.
OpenAI's desperate quest to become an AI monopoly: Everything in America comes back to monopoly
The Trump Administration Is Trying to Kill American Higher Education: Trump is trying to kill everything that actually is great in America
Senate Democrats Have Been Handed a Tool to Stop the Big Beautiful Bill - The American Prospect: Interesting thought.
UPDATE: Oklahoma parents fight back - by Judd Legum: it’s good ot use the oppressor’s tools against them.
Collective bargaining in college sports: Is it a third rail or an inevitability? - The Athletic: College athletes are employees.
What went wrong with the climate relocation of Newtok, Alaska? - The Washington Post: We are not ready for the effects of climate change.
State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’: The racism is the point.
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death - The New York Times: Excellent piece.
Jordon Hudson, Kash Patel and MJ’s fax machine: Pablo Torre’s ‘terminal content brain’ battles the algorithm - The Athletic: Pablo Torre does excellent work.
Messing With Texas: How Big Homebuilders and Private Equity Made American Cities Unaffordable: YIMBY is nowhere near enough to solve our housing crisis, and if housing advocate don’t start thinking less in simple, magic bullets and more in systems, all they are going to do is enrich the very people who keep American housing unaffordable.
Have the best possible week everyone.
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