{"id":10381,"date":"2024-09-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=10381"},"modified":"2024-09-14T12:48:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T16:48:41","slug":"stick-to-baseball-9-14-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/14\/stick-to-baseball-9-14-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 9\/14\/14."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Light week here for writing and links, although it looks like I\u2019ll have two columns at the Athletic this upcoming week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over at Paste, I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/games\/board-games\/you-have-to-stay-flexible-in-the-vale-of-eternity\">reviewed The Vale of Eternity<\/a>, a card-drafting game that\u2019s a lot harder than it looks, especially because of its quirky mechanism of handling coins when you buy and sell cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also sent out a new edition of my free email newsletter on Saturday. <a href=\"https:\/\/keithlaw.substack.com\/\">You can sign up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Longreads first: Ted Chiang, author of the short story that became the film <em>Arrival<\/em>, wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/the-weekend-essay\/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art\">the false promise of AI for creating art<\/a> in the <em>New Yorker.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Magnetic \u201ctherapy\u201d is not backed by any evidence, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/science\/story\/2024-09-05\/can-mert-help-kids-with-autism-theres-little-evidence\">but parents of autistic children are turning to it anyway<\/a> out of desperation and denial.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>States are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarshallproject.org\/2024\/09\/09\/drug-test-pregnancy-pennsylvania-california\">using flawed drug test results as the justification for taking children away from their parents<\/a>, according to this investigative report from the Marshall Project.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cloud storage and AI are driving massive increases in energy usage, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2024\/09\/13\/data-centers-power-grid-ohio\/\">the tech firms behind them are fighting efforts to make them pay their fair share<\/a>. Large language model algorithms are very energy intensive; they shouldn\u2019t be so freely available when they have such high hidden costs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2024\/10\/abortion-ban-idaho-ob-gyn-maternity-care\/679567\/\">Idaho\u2019s abortion ban is putting the lives of women at risk<\/a> and forcing doctors to ignore their training, similar to what we\u2019ve already seen in other states that couldn\u2019t wait to put a giant foot down on women\u2019s necks after <em>Dobbs<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Texas AG Ken Paxton is suing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicnotice.co\/p\/texas-medical-records-abortion\">to ensure the state can access medical records of Texans who go out of state for abortions<\/a>, gender-affirming care, or other medical treatment that is none of the state\u2019s business.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Two Florida voters who signed a petition to get abortion access on the ballot found themselves <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/florida-politics\/elections\/2024\/09\/06\/florida-abortion-amendment-petition-signature-fraud-voters\/\">visited by Gov. DeSantis\u2019s voter intimidation unit<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/colorado\/news\/conifer-teen-shot-face-seeking-permission-photos\/\">A town council member in Jefferson County, Colorado, shot a 17-year-old teen in the face<\/a>, through the windshield of the victim\u2019s car, as the boy and his friend were looking for a place to take homecoming pictures. The victim is hospitalized in serious condition and Brent Metz is facing multiple charges.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I enjoyed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/opinion\/trump-harris-debate-philadelphia-taylor-swift-dogs-20240911.html\">Will Bunch\u2019s evisceration of Donald Trump\u2019s performance at the debate<\/a> on Tuesday against VP Kamala Harris.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A fishing village in Kenya that has also become a popular tourist destination <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cd1x52n43dwo\">is disappearing as sea levels rise due to climate change<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <em>Times<\/em> reports on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/14\/world\/middleeast\/libya-floods-derna.html\">the efforts to rebuild the Libyan city of Derna<\/a> a year after two dams failed and the city flooded, killing over 4000 people. Libya has two rival governments in place, and the one funding the $2 billion effort has given power to run the program to the son of a powerful warlord, raising fears of corruption and more shoddy work.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2024\/9\/11\/debate-in-nuclear-armed-former-colony-fails-to-reassure-global-community\">Debate in nuclear-armed former colony fails to reassure global community.<\/a>\u201d Hat tip to Craig Calcaterra and <a href=\"https:\/\/cupofcoffee.beehiiv.com\/\">his essential Cup of Coffee newsletter<\/a> for alerting me to this satirical gem.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The most recent edition of the <em>Times<\/em>\u2019 Modern Love column <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/13\/style\/modern-love-realizing-too-late-we-were-meant-for-each-other.html\">is a gut-punch<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/pantheum\/pantheum-demigods-of-olympia\">The Kickstarter for Pantheum: Demigods of Olympia<\/a>, an intriguing game from a new publisher, is about to clear $100K as I write this on Friday night.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light week here for writing and links, although it looks like I\u2019ll have two columns at the Athletic this upcoming week. Over at Paste, I reviewed The Vale of Eternity, a card-drafting game that\u2019s a lot harder than it looks, especially because of its quirky mechanism of handling coins when you buy and sell cards. 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