[SC 2.4.4] That's it, that's the update
I've got a lot of links in this edition. That's it, that's the update.
The Marine who was a duck (yes, an actual duck)
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“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison
"This narrative of human suffering, set in 2025, is filled with tears and resilience. It is a story of women. It is our story. It could very well be your story too."
Fascism For First Time Founders
"Fascism is really good at one thing: making everything worse."
Fully Homomorphic Encryption and the Dawn of A Truly Private Internet
Well, now this is interesting.
Psilocybin produces substantial and sustained decreases in depression and anxiety in patients with life-threatening cancer: A randomized double-blind trial
Sometimes I think about all the lost progress from decades of suppressing this area of research and get real sad.
Student 'Trapped In Time Loop' For 8 Years By Chronic Deja Vu
Student 'Trapped In Time Loop' For 8 Years By Chronic Deja Vu
Human Stigmergy
"Intelligence can be distributed rather than fenced off. The exercise of power isn't the only way."
Why Science Hasn’t Solved Consciousness (Yet)
Louder for those in the back: brains are not computers.
Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and Solving Problems—Simple Cells Can Do It
As I was saying!
AI mania is worse than 1999's tech bubble, Apollo's top economist warns
Uh oh.
Microsoft’s constant layoffs risk creating a culture of fear
Last week's newsletter also had an article about fear being the dominant cultural force at work, so, uh, yeah. He nailed it.
Mysterious Antimatter Physics Discovered at the Large Hadron Collider
New class of antimatter particles just dropped.
Astronomers discover a cosmic 'fossil' at the edge of our solar system. Is this bad news for 'Planet 9'?
Poor little guy was just trying to make a break for it.
New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes
Now that's how you write a headline.
The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
Sometimes—and hear me out—you need to communicate two thoughts in a sentence without using the cowardly parenthesis.
The Forgotten Plague: Encephalitis Lethargica and the Mystery That Still Haunts Medicine
Life imitates magical realism.
Unmasking Mask Hate: The Racial-Criminal Pathologization of Dissent
"To resist mask bans is to resist imperialism and racial criminal pathologization through disability justice praxis, from Los Angeles to Gaza."
It's rude to show AI output to people
I got a review from my manager that was AI written. It sucked, and cheapened so much painstaking, hard-fought, and heartfelt labor.
Fix This Site
Amazing.
Heavyweight: An Art Project About Lawyer Vibes
"…a project that democratizes the aesthetics of (in lieu of access to) legal representation."
This ‘violently racist’ hacker claims to be the source of The New York Times’ Mamdani scoop
Again, the second best time to unsubscribe from the New York Times is now.
Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
And speaking of unsubscribing from terrible things: Fuck Spotify.
I displayed an open graph image and had to pay how much?!
This is so weird, like a web 1.0-era throwback in terms of folks just not getting it.
Tailwind is the Worst of All Worlds
Preach.
Accessibility and friction
A thing to know when you work in digital accessibility is that a non-trivial amount of your peers likely think this way, it's just that they still don't feel comfortable expressing it publicly. That's changing.
Knowing better, doing worse: the science behind self-sabotaging behaviour
A very interesting reframe!