Welcome to your always free, reader-supported, mid-week edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free.
Let’s get right to it:
La Maledizione. In which my father is called “a conscience for Oregon,” which is fine and all, but the pay’s lousy. (free link)
Men Are Betting the Rent & Calling It a Strategy. A quarter of Gen Z dudes think gambling is a legitimate, long-term investment strategy? My dudes. Good one from Bill McCamley. (free link)
Disintermediation and Democratization 2.0: What My 2011 Speech Got Right (and Where We Stand Now). In which Jack Martin grades his work from 2011. (free link)
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility. Siri, show me proof that big tech is evil. (gift link)
Gianmarco Soresi for the win.
Heh-heh.
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Buy the book Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick banned from the Bullock Texas History Museum: Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of the American Myth by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and myself.