A few notable short reads from the week ending 11/6/26.
What did the Romans ever give Scotland? I love history, I love Roman history, and I love the history of what the Romans left behind as the empire shrank. I wish I could visit the National Museum of Scotland to see this exhibit.
New Red Card World Record Set As Police Called to Stop Brawl in Brazil. The beautiful game sometimes turns really ugly.
Local mom-and-pops are embracing AI food slop, and residents are revolting. I’m not thrilled by AI slop, either, but it’s easy to see the lure of “free” marketing content for small businesses on razor-thin margins. The outrage is over the top. We should reserve our anger for the corporations force-feeding this crap on everyone.
Texas Pays Online School Empire for Kids Who Don’t Show Up. Ever notice that when tech entrepreneurs say that want to “disrupt” something, they mean “suck all the money out of it and burn it down in the process?”
“The thing I remember most is him screaming.” A new species of trapdoor spider discovered on an island in Mauritius. Nature is so cool.
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