Week of 2025-0824

Monday 2025 August 25

• Sherman J. Clark at 3 Quarks Daily: “Digital Descendants: A Human Hope for Future AI Minds“
• Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “No Kings, No Occupations — Toward a Democratic Opposition Politics“

Wednesday 2025 August 27

• Dilip D’Souza at 3 Quarks Daily: “Lord I’m 400 Years From My Home“

Saturday 2025 August 29

• Ty Burr at The Washington Post: “The enduring, unsettling truth that ‘Rashomon’ showed us“
• Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns, and Money: “Federal Circuit en banc holds that Trump’s tariffs are not authorized by Congress“
• Paul Krugman: “Why Aren’t Markets Freaking Out?“
• Paul Krugman: “In the Matter of Lisa Cook“
• G. Elliott Morris at Strength in Numbers: “The most common political party for new voters is no party at all | Weekly roundup for August 24, 2025“
• Brendan Quinn at The New York Times: “A classic New York golf course vanished. 80 years later, it reappeared in the Midwest“
• Doug Natelson at Nanoscale Views: “Learning and AI/LLMs – Why do we need to know or teach anything anymore?“
• Doug Muder at The Weekly Sift: “Accusations“
• Trisha Thadani and Faiz Siddiqui at The Washington Post: “Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it.“