Reason Links first
Trump says he wants to control the prices of prescription drugs. Am I surprised? No. He is a master at playing to his core constituencies. And one would be the seniors who pay a lot for drugs. Of course, downstream effects don’t matter when playing to his constituencies.
The feds take over Rikers Island.
The federal government defended not doing simple things like checking the address before conducting a raid. Because officer safety is paramount – even from imaginary threats.
A question I’ve had multiple times – should Civ be true to history or just fun? I tend to fall on the fun side of that question.
On to other news. It’s a bit of a grab bag.
From Bloomberg, Audible is looking to partner with publishers to bring AI-voiced audiobooks to market. It looks like Audible is trying to close the gap between when the physical books are released and the audiobooks. I’ve noticed that the gap’s been getting longer in recent months.
A NYT interview with Jim Butcher on his Dresden series and his own struggles with depression.
From Shooting Illustrated, SCCY Firearms is closing it’s doors. I’m not going to dance on the company’s grave, but I’m not going to grieve their loss either. My main concern is for the firearms industry as a whole over the next few years.
An interesting thinkpiece from Kevin Creighton.
From Venture Beat, Anthropic apparently has some code in its most recent Claude LLM that will contact the authorities and press if you’re doing some “egregiously immoral.” No way that could be abused. None whatsoever.
Everyone thinks claiming “Stand Your Ground” is a get-out-of-free card, but not so much.
Morrissound Records is honored with a historic plaque. Haven’t heard of them? They are credited with being part of the birth of death metal.
An article about a heroic young man who saved a baby from a river.
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