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List of articles I recently found interesting to read.

• Empire of Normality – review Chapman’s book offers a vitally needed theoretical framework for neurodivergent anti-capitalism, writes Gerald Roche
• Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability. The Xz backdoor and a near miss on the F-Droid app store show how the entitled attitude of some people in the open source community can be used to push malicious or insecure code.
• In Africa, the donkey is critical for many rural families. In particular, it can free women and girls from having to do heavy labour.
• Famine alters metabolism for successive generations. A famine that afflicted China between 1959 and 1961 is associated with an increased hyperglycemia risk not only among people who were born then, but also among the children they had a generation later.
• Life of the Party. Carnival was introduced to Louisiana in 1699 by the French explorer Pierre LeMoyne d’Iberville.
• Op-ed: Generative AI should be stopped for the good of autistic people. Could the exploitation of generative AI disproportionally impact neurodivergent people?
• Like everyone in my generation, I am finding it increasingly difficult not to be scared about the future and angry about the past.
• Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe.
• Privacy, human rights, and Tornado Cash. I am more worried about privacy than crypto crime.
• Rap Is Art, Not Evidence. A new documentary chronicles efforts to keep rap lyrics from being used by prosecutors, combatting a long-standing trend of criminalizing this particular art form.
• How to Build 300,000 Airplanes in Five Years. It’s no secret that the Allies won World War II on the back of the U.S’s enormous industrial output.
• A British Nurse Was Found Guilty of Killing Seven Babies. Did She Do It?Colleagues reportedly called Lucy Letby an “angel of death,” and the Prime Minister condemned her. But, in the rush to judgment, serious questions about the evidence were ignored. (bypass Paywall)
• The Costs of America’s EV Dreams. Biden acknowledges the “original sin” of slavery during his visit to Angola, but a U.S.-funded rail project could fuel another wave of Black exploitation
• The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game, based on lengthy interviews we conducted with 25 former big-time college athletes.
• Creating a throw-away culture: How companies ingrained plastics in modern life
• AI can't fix what automation already broke. Generative AI is the latest in a long line of technologies that promise innovation and fixes but grind away at public life
• Having Both Ovaries Removed Could Come at a Serious Cost to The Brain
• ‘We’re Living in a Nightmare:’ Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town
• Brecht’s Scissors. ‘Bertolt Brecht in Dark Times: Racism, Political Oppression and Dictatorship’
• Close Encounters in the Fourth Dimension. How rediscovering Neanderthals primed us for the search for extraterrestrial life.