Bad Words

Yesterday I published an essay about words. Although it was mostly light-hearted, it made the point up top that words can hurt. And we live in a time when words are being used by certain people to cause a lot of other people a ton of hurt.

Now I flat-out love words — big ones, little ones, those with multiple syllables or the humble monosyllabic. Stringing them together is a challenge not unlike hanging Christmas lights. You must avoid tangling them up in the process, as the whole depends on each unit being able to shine on its own.

Setting that to one side, I’m particularly offended by those who abuse our language to injure people. And that is precisely what is happening in America.

Our Wordsmith-in-Chief is waging a war of words (and guns) to round up people and send them away. He is breaking up families, communities and demolishing the very idea that is America.

He’s been abusing words to accomplish this purpose for a long time. From his unfounded charges that Haitian immigrants were eating their neighbors’ pets in Springfield, Ohio, during his last campaign, to his disparaging comments this week about Somali immigrants in Minneapolis, this guy has consistently spewed hateful, racist lies in support of his agenda to ethnically cleanse the U.S. of non-white people.

These human rights abuses of the most vulnerable among us are unprecedented by a President. And there are words for a that. 

Despot, authoritarian, dictator, war criminal, America’s Hitler. 

Take your pick.

HEADLINES:

• US lawmakers condemn seizure of Venezuelan oil tanker: ‘Trump is sleepwalking us into a war’ (Guardian)

• A Grand Jury Again Declines to Reindict Letitia James (NYT)

• Zohran Mamdani ready ‘for any consequence’ standing up to ICE (USA Today)

• Judge orders immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from immigration detention (ABC)

• A Dawning Realization (Atlantic)

• Trump’s crackdown on immigration is taking a toll on child care workers (AP)

• The Democratic base isn’t in the mood to compromise (Silver Bulletin)

• Affordable Care Act Subsidies Left to Expire After Senate Deadlocks (NYT)

• Competing health care plans fail in the Senate as ACA premium hikes loom (NPR)

• Trump’s redistricting effort fails in Indiana as GOP lawmakers deliver rare rebuke (WP)

• Indiana Lawmakers Reject Trump’s New Political Map (NYT)

• Why Indiana Republicans Are Standing Up to Trump (Atlantic)

• The nationwide redistricting arms race started by President Donald Trump will not stop with this election cycle, some Democrats say, with the party potentially taking advantage of midterm gains to draw new lines in critical states. [HuffPost]

• The Civil Rights law that Stephen Miller says ruined America (CNN)

• How a U.S. admiral decided to kill two boat strike survivors (WP)

• So This Is What ‘America First’ Looks Like (Atlantic)

• Inside the very tense, very wet secret mission to get María Corina Machado out of Venezuela (CBS)

• The rise in sexual violence against children in Congo. (Reuters)

• Video shows orcas and dolphins teaming up to hunt more efficiently (WP)

• OpenAI fires back at Google with GPT-5.2 after ‘code red’ memo (TechCrunch)

• Disney Agrees to Bring Its Characters to OpenAI’s Sora Videos (NYT)

• Trump’s AI-Regulation Ban Is a Threat to National Security (Atlantic)

• Study Finds 80% Of Americans Lack Social Connections To Pull Off Heist (Onion)

 

Words

Sticks and stones may break my bones
But words shall never hurt me. — children’s rhyme

______

That old kids’ rhyme may still be an effective retort to verbal bullies but it is not true in a literal sense. Words hurt, of course, and they hurt relentlessly, cruelly and sometimes irreversibly.

On the other hand, words also can bring pleasure as surely as food, drink, stories and sex.

Thus for many of us, word games are among our favorite daily habits.

The venerable Scrabble and the addictive Wordle are two of my personal favorites. For years, two of my sons competed in “Words With Friends.”

And then there are Semantle, Dordle, Quordle, Octordle, Nerdle, and hello wordl, among many others.

Josh Wardle, the creator of Wordle says “What’s fun about Wordle, I think, is what you can tease out, based on what you know about language. What the word should be.”

Some of what goes wrong in our national and international dialogues can be traced to words and what they should mean. Political and military opponents often seem to be talking right past each other.

Certainly this is the case between Russia and Ukraine and in the Middle East.

But back to Wordle, where I’ve won 97 percent of the time, which is fairly good but not great.

During my recent trip to Arizona to visit my three sisters, one revealing moment found all four of us drinking coffee or tea and playing Wordle at the same time.

It must be in the genes.

(This is from 2022.)

HEADLINES:

• U.S. Seizes Tanker Off Venezuela (NYT)

• 3 separate US strikes on alleged drug boats have initially left survivors. Each time they’ve been treated differently (CNN)

• Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors (NYT)

• Trump’s New Imperialism (Atlantic)

• Fed Cuts Rates Again, Is Divided Over Future Moves (NYT)

• The Supreme Court is handing Donald Trump more power (Economist)

• House Passes $900 Billion Bill That Would Put Trump’s Stamp on Military (NYT)

• Exclusive: U.S. businesses are getting throttled by the drop in tourism from Canada: ‘I can count the number of Canadian visitors on one hand’ (Fortune)

• Judge blocks Trump administration from deploying California National Guard members in Los Angeles (CBS)

• The Economics of Immigration (WSJ)

• Immigrant students experience more bullying as ICE raids cause ‘culture of fear’, says survey (Guardian)

• US threatens new ICC sanctions unless the court pledges not to prosecute Trump (Reuters)

• 2 Democrats, 2 strategies: Texas Senate race shows party split on Trump-focus in midterm elections (AP)

• Paramount fights Netflix for Warner Bros—and the future of Hollywood (Economist)

• Australia’s Social Media Ban for Children Takes Effect (NYT)

• All of the ways we remember: How data scientists hold memory with and for survivors (Structural Zero)

• Marjorie Taylor Greene’s boyfriend has had a weird month (WP)

• Judge rules Epstein grand jury records from 2019 case can be released (BBC)

• Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water (Wired)

• America’s New Enemies List: Trump’s NSPM-7 Turns Dissent Into Domestic Terrorism (Daily Kos)

• We guarantee the death of most remaining newsrooms (Nieman)

• There’s a better way to play with your cat (WP)

• Pete Hegseth’s New AI Defense Tool Rollout Immediately Derails (TNR)

• OpenAI Is in Trouble (Atlantic)

• Google launches sub-$5 AI Plus plan in India to compete with ChatGPT Go (TechCrunch)

• Why the A.I. Boom Is Unlike the Dot-Com Boom (NYT)

• Fraternity Under Investigation After Forcing Pledges To Volunteer At Soup Kitchen (Onion)

 

Teammates

Over the past 50 years one of the most notable changes in journalism was that reporters started to work in teams.

In school in the 60s, we were taught that the way it worked historically was that a series of great men -- and a few great women -- achieved journalistic success individually. Partnerships were rarely mentioned.

The big names were John Peter Zenger (1697-1746), Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1912), Walter Lippmann (1889-1974), Walter Cronkite (1916-2009) ... and more recently Barbara Walters (1929-2022) and Tom Wolfe (1931-2018).

There were investigative reporters too, mainly lone wolves like Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Jacob Riis in the early 20th century and then Jessica Mitford, Seymour Hersh, Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein in our time. (These are the famous ones, there were many others.) They too mostly worked alone.

Some modern scholars credit the Center for Investigative Reporting and Mother Jones for establishing the non-profit model of investigative journalism. (Note: Investigative Reporters and Editors deserves major credit as well.)

But concentrating on those two organizations, CIR and MoJo, which encapsulated so much of the first half of my own career, what’s true is that we produced our muckraking reports in teams(*) much more than as individuals. Maybe this was a Baby Boomer thing; after all, we were such a huge generation numerically that we rarely did anything in life completely alone.

(*) In 2024, CIR and Mother Jones have merged into a single team.

Woodward & Bernstein are a tad older than our generation, but they are the most famous co-authors in American journalism history. But they didn’t work together very long, given the length of their careers.

I’ve worked with many partners. Some of us specialize in interviews, some in documents, some as investigators, some as writers or story-tellers. But what can be most valuable in a team is the ability to collectively arrive at an unusual perspective on the facts.

It’s not the kind of working style that suits every temperament. People who get too easily frustrated and who give up easily tend to drop off teams. People who worry more about process than results rarely work out in these kinds of projects. Egos can all too easily rear their ugly heads; competing egos are poisonous.

But for those of us who do stick it out, team stories yield a large percentage of the best journalism out there today.

(NOTE: I published the earliest version of this essay five years ago.)

HEADLINES:

• Trump Personally Intervenes to Block Release of January 6 Documents (TNR)

• Trump’s speech on combating inflation turns to grievances about immigrants (NPR)

• The Enfeebling of the President (Atlantic)

• DOJ attacks judges for criticizing Halligan appointment (Axios)

• Supreme Court probes campaign finance limits challenged by JD Vance (NBC)

• Takeover bid of parent company means limbo for CNN and some fellow cable networks (AP)

• Sacked agents sue FBI, saying they were punished for taking the knee (BBC)

• With immigration paused, Afghans in the US and abroad urgently seek options after the National Guard attack (CNN)

• Illinois Governor Signs Bill Imposing New Limits on Immigration Enforcement (NYT)

• NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani spells out immigrants’ rights when facing ICE agents (CBS)

• Noem claims Mamdani could be violating Constitution with advice to migrants (The Hill)

• What to know about the massive defense bill that seeks release of boat strike videos and more (AP)

• Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) is running for the U.S. Senate, shaking up the Democratic primary in a red state the party has sought to flip for several cycles. Prior to her announcement, Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas) dropped out of that race to run for a newly drawn House district. [HuffPost]

• Millions of Australian teens lose access to social media accounts as ban takes effect (BBC)

• Honduras Issues Arrest Warrant for Ex-President Pardoned by Trump (NYT)

• The EPA is wiping mention of human-caused climate change from its website (WP)

• They Killed My Source (Atlantic)

• Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia spreads along their contested border (Reuters)

• How China Wins the Future (Foreign Affairs)

• The War Room newsletter: A truly radical document (Economist)

• The Only War the White House Is Ready for Is Culture War (Foreign Policy)

• This musician taught an octopus to play the piano (WP)

• Here’s what Canadian provinces are doing with all the US liquor they pulled off shelves (BBC)

• Adolescence lasts into your 30s, and other surprises about the brain (WP)

• OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Are Teaming Up to Make AI Agents Play Nice (Wired)

• Google’s first AI glasses expected next year (TechCrunch)

• U.S. military to use Google Gemini for new AI platform (Axios)

• Have you seen this (AI-generated) man? Police swap suspect sketches for AI. (WP)

• A.I. Videos Have Flooded Social Media. No One Was Ready. (NYT)

• Terry Gross Conducts ‘Fresh Air’ Interview On Bluetooth During Uber Shift (Onion)

MUSIC VIDEO: 

Deana Carter - Strawberry Wine (Official Music Video)

Mutual, Competing Truths

“You’re right from your side / I’m right from mine,” Bob Dylan wrote in One Too Many Mornings, which is among his lesser-known songs. Similar sentiments from many other artists try to capture the convoluted nature of mutual, competing truths.

And this raises a dilemma for journalists attempting to cover corporate and civic affairs. 

Comes now an incident from our “Circle of Poison” investigation in the 1970s and 1980s. At first we were focused on the moral aspect of U.S. companies shipping banned pesticides to Third World countries, which exposed farmworkers and their families to health risks, and polluted the environment.

At an international gathering sponsored by the UN about this issue in Mexico, a representative of Dow Chemical approached me and said, “I understand your concern but what’s wrong with helping a hungry world eat?”

His point was that even if the pesticides were considered too dangerous for us here in the U.S., food scarcity was such in poorer countries that such compromises made sense. After all, at least in the short term, pesticides boost food productivity.

His comment got me thinking and back home at the Center for Investigative Reporting we started looking more closely into what crops the hazardous pesticides were being applied to. That research led to a breakthrough in our analysis, as almost all of the food crops sprayed in Third World countries did not go to local people at all but were exported right back here to the U.S.A..

This was the final piece of the “circle,” and it guaranteed the book would cause more waves than had we solely focused on the impacts overseas.

When I looked back on it, years later, that guy from Dow was right, but we were right too. And in this case of mutually competitive truths, I hoped that the pen would prove to be mightier than the sprayer.

HEADLINES:

• Alina Habba, a Trump Loyalist, Resigns as New Jersey’s Top Prosecutor (NYT)

• Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban begins (Guardian)

• War is hell, but that should never excuse war crimes. (The Hill)

• Supreme Court Appears Poised to Expand Presidential Power (NYT)

• Supreme Court conservatives poised to back Trump in FTC firing case (Reuters)

• Trump’s plans to shatter the bureaucracy have a green light at the Supreme Court (Politico)

• Trump pardons major drug traffickers despite his anti-drug rhetoric (WP)

• Donald Trump Lashes Out At Paramount Owners In Rant About Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Appearance On ‘60 Minutes’ (Deadline)

• How the new H-1B visa fee is upending health care in rural America (WP)

• For Gen Z-ers, work is now more depressing than unemployment (NYT)

• Trump Border Czar Seems Totally Fine With Detaining Citizens (TNR)

• Mamdani tells New Yorkers, ‘We can all stand up to ICE’ (WP)

• Trump’s National Security Strategy: Atlas Shrugs (The Bulwark)

• EU slams critical US security strategy, notes ‘changed relationship’ (Al Jazeera)

• Zelenskyy heads to London for more Ukraine peace talks. (NPR)

• China’s Trade Surplus Climbs Past $1 Trillion for First Time (NYT)

• A year after Bashar Assad fled, Syria struggles to heal (AP)

• Thailand launches airstrikes at Cambodia as border tensions reignite (Reuters)

• Paramount Makes Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery (NYT)

• Scientists discovered a powerful new way to combat the effects of aging. (WP)

• AI boom fuels “environmental justice” fears in communities of color (Axios)

• More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US datacenters (Guardian)

• ChatGPT’s Self-Serving Optimism (Atlantic)

• Don’t make this age-old mistake on AI (WP)

• Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic (Onion)

The Ghosts of Wounded Knee

Pine Ridge Reservation, site of the Wounded Knee massacre, was an eerily beautiful place of wind-swept plains that seemed haunted by the voices of the dead echoing from the Black Hills in the distance.

Home to the Lakota (Sioux) people, Pine Ridge was central in the 1970s to a concerted effort by Native Americans to demand their rights and reclaim their land from the U.S. government.

The American Indian Movement (AIM) emerged as the leading voice of the activists in that uprising. I went to Pine Ridge to look into the unsolved murder of AIM activist Anna Mae Aquash, a 30-year-old mother of two and member of the Mi’kmaq tribe who had traveled from Nova Scotia to join the rebellion.

Aquash had organized demonstrations and spoke publicly on behalf of native rights. She also was AIM co-founder Dennis Banks’ lover at a time when AIM had been placed under FBI surveillance by President Richard Nixon.

“These white people think this country belongs to them,” Aquash wrote in a letter to her sister at the time. “The whole country changed with only a handful of raggedy-ass pilgrims that came over here in the 1500s. And it can take a handful of raggedy-ass Indians to do the same, and I intend to be one of those raggedy-ass Indians.”

Violence haunted AIM and by 1975, more than 60 Indians had been killed, mostly in unsolved cases. Activists accused the U.S. government of waging a deadly war against their people. Tensions between AIM and the FBI on Pine Ridge reached a boiling point in 1975 when in an armed battle with AIM members, two FBI agents were killed.

(AIM’s Leonard Peltier was later convicted of these murders. His sentence was commuted by President Joe Biden — a move widely criticized by Republicans.)

During their investigation of this case, authorities detained Aquash and grilled her but then released her, leading some of her AIM colleagues to suspect she might be an informer.

In February 1976, her decomposed body was discovered by a rancher working his property line; she had been killed execution-style by a single shot to the head.

For Rolling Stone, Lowell Bergman and I traveled to Pine Ridge to try and find out who was behind her murder. With investigative stories of this kind, sometimes you solve the mystery but usually you don’t.

In Anna Mae’s case, we did not solve the mystery. We did write a long story about the case, which may have helped raise awareness of the crisis at Wounded Knee.

Over the years, the mystery bubbled to the surface from time to time until finally (in 2004 and 2010) authorities were able to convict two low-level AIM members of her killing.

But according to a piece in the New York Times Magazine by Eric Konigsberg, these two were essentially the fall guys for the crime, which was in fact engineered by a group of AIM women known as the Pie Patrol.

Almost certainly, according to Konigsberg, higher-ups ordered the Pie Patrol to have Anna Mae murdered. If so, the guilty parties apparently went to their graves with their secret.

According to Lakota legend, when the body of a murder victim is moved, a strong wind will blow. When you stand out on Pine Ridge today, you can feel that wind and hear the voices of ghosts echoing around you.

One of those is that of Anna Mae Aquash.

(I published this originally in December 2020.)

HEADLINES:

• Marjorie Taylor Greene Says GOP Colleagues Made Fun Of Trump Behind His Back, Now ‘Terrified’ (Forbes)

• Hegseth defends action in the Caribbean amid mounting questions (CNN)

• Not All Targeted Killings Are the Same. Hegseth’s Boat Strikes Are Illegal. (NYT)

• The Trump Administration’s Chaos in the Caribbean (New Yorker)

• Is redistricting backfiring on Republicans? (Silver Bulletin)

• The Supreme Court weighs another step in favor of broad presidential power sought by Trump (AP)

• ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows (NBC)

• How Crypto Could Trigger the Next Financial Crisis (Atlantic)

• Trump’s plans to shatter the bureaucracy have a green light at the Supreme Court (Politico)

• Trump Weighs Moving on From Noem (Bulwark)

• New US security strategy aligns with Russia’s vision, Moscow says (BBC)

• US may end support for Ukraine war effort, says Donald Trump Jr (Guardian)

• Inside Trump’s small national security team (Politico)

• Chernobyl radiation shield ‘lost safety function’ after drone strike, UN watchdog says (BBC)

• The Legacy Media’s Not Dead Yet (National Review)

• Lifeguards save dog swept nearly a mile out to sea by rip current (WP)

• Alabama, Miami in, Notre Dame out and Indiana No. 1 in College Football Playoff rankings (AP)

• Miley Cyrus Gives Update on Godmother Dolly Parton Amid Country Music Star’s Health Trouble (US Weekly)

• A Grand Social Media Experiment Begins in Australia (NYT)

• OpenAI goes from stock market savior to burden as AI risks mount (Bloomberg)

• The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI (Atlantic)

• ’d Sooner Let My Family Starve Than Exaggerate My Marketing  Experience On My Resume (Onion)

 

Guitar Picker With a Smile

Molly Tuttle is one of those artists who catches my eye for her bluegrass-style guitar picking, sweet singing voice and her smile. Many people can perform but fewer seem so genuinely happy while they are doing it.

She first came to my attention a few years ago with her appearance at the Ryman in Nashville on New Year’s Eve, and again it was her smile that stood out. She was among a dozen or more musicians on stage on that occasion but she was the only one smiling.

Molly Tuttle was diagnosed with alopecia areata when she was three years old, which quickly progressed to alopecia universalis, resulting in total body hair loss.

She wears wigs during her performances, but sometimes before the right crowd she rips it off at the end, to cheers from her fans.

Here’s to Molly Tuttle and singing with a smile.

HEADLINES:

• National Park Service overhauls free admission days to include Trump’s birthday (CNN)

• Trump strategy document revives Monroe Doctrine, slams Europe (Reuters)

• America has a new clash of civilizations — with European liberals (Vox)

• Trump’s Security Strategy Focuses on Profit, Not Spreading Democracy (NYT)

• Experts react: What Trump’s National Security Strategy means for US foreign policy (Atlantic Council)

• India tries to avoid slipping on Russian oil (Reuters)

• Gaza ceasefire deal at a ‘critical moment’, mediator Qatar says (Al Jazeera)

• The Gaza Flotilla Story You Didn’t Hear (Reveal)

• Russia hits Ukraine as US reports progress in talks with Kyiv (BBC)

• Plotting Syrian uprisings… from Russia (Reuters)

• Under RFK Jr., the CDC provides a megaphone to the anti-vaccine movement (WP)

• West Virginians question National Guard deployments after attack on 2 of their own (NPR)

• Rules of War: An Interview with the Man Who Wrote the Book (Journal of the Plague Years)

• Netflix-Warner Brothers deal will face antitrust resistance (Reuters)

• Can AI help forecasters better predict destructive hurricanes? (ABC)

• Pete Hegseth Invokes ‘Fog Of War’ After Pissing In Break Room Refrigerator (Onion)

MUSIC VIDEO:

Molly Tuttle - That’s Gonna Leave A Mark (Sailboat Sessions)

Relics

 

(This is an excerpt from 2007.)

Today I was thinking that I maybe should be in the salvage business -- rescuing the castoffs of this throwaway society, restoring them, and preserving them as artifacts. 

I’ve been collecting things for at least half a century. Old bottles, coins, stamps, magazines, books, photos, postcards, baseball cards -- the list goes on — not to mention the memories they evoke.

Today’s find was this old portable typewriter -- the laptop of its time. I used to work on a machine like this, and in fact, I still had one until recently, when in a weaker moment I discarded it.

Thanks to one of my neighbors, it didn’t get far. And today, following the local custom of putting whatever you don’t want anymore out on the sidewalk for anyone passing by to claim, I now have retaken possession of this portable Remington. 

It makes that old comforting sound that a century ago came from the open windows in Rudyard Kipling’s compound in India, as he pounded out his stories on tropical nights.

Or Conrad, Hemingway, Faulkner, all warm-weather writers, take your pick. For many decades, this was the sound of literature and the sound of journalism. Even as recently as the Watergate scandal of 1974, the signature film made of Woodward and Bernstein’s legendary reporting that ended Richard Nixon’s presidency, closes with a sequence of headlines typed on an old manual typewriter.

Relics. If I ever write a memoir, I should do it on this. On second thought, strike that, but its photo might make a good book cover.

HEADLINES:

• Trump administration National Security Strategy claims Europe facing “civilizational erasure” within 20 years (CBS)

• A 19th Century Strategy Can’t Solve 21st Century Problems (Forbes)

• Donald Trump’s bleak, incoherent foreign-policy strategy (Economist)

• Trump can’t save Hegseth now — no one can (The Hill)

• Video of Boat Strike Shows Survivors Waving Before Fatal Follow-Up Attack (NYT)

• Democrats call for Pete Hegseth’s resignation amid scrutiny over deadly boat strikes and Signalgate: ‘a disgrace to the office he holds’ (Guardian)

• Why US actions in Venezuela could backfire across the globe (The Hill)

• New Orleans residents in fear as immigration crackdown descends on their city (BBC)

• ‘Creating fear and chaos’: ICE officials target Somali neighborhoods, scoop up U.S. citizens in sweep (MPR)

• Grand jury declines to charge Letitia James after first case dismissed (BBC)

• Accused DC pipe bomber told FBI he believed the 2020 election was stolen, sources say (CNN)

• Suspect in DC pipe bomb case said to have confessed in interviews with investigators (AP)

• Supreme Court hands Trump a victory in fight over Texas congressional map (WP)

• The Supreme Court just made gerrymandering nearly untouchable (Vox)

• ‘Constitutional hardball’: National gerrymander battle turns the heat up in Missouri (Politico)

• Supreme Court’s Texas Map Ruling Could Be Good News for California (TNR)

• What Putin and Modi got out of Delhi meeting (BBC)

• Kash Patel Yelled at FBI Agent to Be the Designated Driver for His Girlfriend’s Drunk Friend: Report (Yahoo)

• Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. studio and streaming business for $72 billion (AP)

• Netflix has reportedly won a contentious bidding war to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery’s film and TV studios and the HBO Max streaming service. The news of the potential deal is a major blow to the Ellison family, which had submitted a rival bid for the company. [HuffPost] 

• The World Cup draw comes to Washington, with Trump as the star (WP)

• You Had to Be There (Atlantic)

• Mark Kelly Says This ‘Exciting’ Scientific Find Raises Questions Of Life Beyond Earth (HuffPost)

• New York Times Sues A.I. Start-Up Perplexity Over Use of Copyrighted Work (NYT)

• When Chatbots Break Our Minds (Atlantic)

• Transformative AI is coming, and so are the risks (Axios)

• Before Your Doctor Uses AI to Record Your Visits, Ask These Questions (WSJ)

• The Strange Disappearance of an Anti-AI Activist (Atlantic)

• ChatGPT started the AI race. Now its lead is looking shaky. (WP)

• Vatican Formally Recognizes First Gen Z Demon (Onion)

MUSIC VIDEO:

Kris Kristofferson - Why Me Lord