- Kyla Scanlon: How to Get Rich in America. A tragedy in five parts. Part four in particular reminded me of my own travails.
- Protesilaos: About desire, authenticity, and moderation. No notes.
- Dorothy Bishop: Acceleration of the arms race between fraudsters and honest researchers. An authentic scientist against the world.
- Cory Doctorow: The actual epistemic crisis. Pairs nicely with the above.
- Ryan Cross for Endpoints News: Exclusive: Third death in China’s popular but opaque trials revealed, this time in CAR-T. Behind a paywall, but the title is comprehensive enough. It was for an in vivo CAR-T trial using circular RNA. Unsurprising.
- Adam Mastroianni: **I like ’em thick. No notes, again.
- Aidan Walker: shift, slop, chud: operating a vibe. Contains the sentence of the week:
The media class continued to read X like a thermometer offering data about the climate of opinion when it was actually a probe taking the rectal temperature of the internet’s loneliest men.
- Bruno Dias: The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier’s Pirates!. This brought me back, particularly since they used the 1993 Pirates! Gold for most (all?) of the screenshots.
- This brought me back as well: Drop Dead Fred, anyone?