We often set aside articles that are longer, deserve a re-read, are broader in scope…or just for fun - for weekend reading. Below are some from this week - pour yourself a hot cup of coffee & enjoy...

• Nvidia: The AI chip giant caught between US and China (BBC)

• Counter Culture: This New “Dumbphone” Is a Lot Smarter Than It Looks. Great Ad. (Lightphone)

• Former Pentagon official warns department’s dysfunction could topple Hegseth (Politico)

• Rules Of Thumb Vs. Rules Of Big Toe: Why personal pain is the best teacher. In the “stuff that I’ve figured out for myself” category live my Rules of Big Toe (Cultish Creative)

• If Harvard, armor-plated by history and padded with funds, can’t beat Trump, no one can: The awe-inspiring might of the government is pitted against the might of the revered US university: let the fight begin (The Guardian)

• The (Ludicrous) Psychology of Slot Machines (SatPost by Trung Phan)

• The rise of the infinite fringe: It used to be easy to kill a conspiracy theory. But the internet has made them immortal - and politically powerful. (The Verge)

• Tired of Winning: Why Peter Navarro Hates BMW. BMW’s operations in South Carolina Plant Spartanburg represents everything the Trump Administration says it wants to achieve: reindustrialization, manufacturing jobs, and exports. (Agglomerations)

• As ‘Bot’ Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond (Voice of San Diego)

• The self-inflicted death of American science has already begun: Trump’s crackdown on foreign students and scientists will do irreparable harm to the country. (Vox)

• Jackie Robinson Would Be Appalled (The Ringer)

• This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops: Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.” (Wired)

• Has the campaign to get smartphones out of schools reached a tipping point? (The Guardian)

• Diversion: Sticking the Landing! (Red Bull on YouTube)

• Attack of the Quack-Industrial Complex (Source: Paul Krugman)
  

What are you reading or listening to?