Thursday, March 05, 2026

Friday Links!

Leading off this week, an express trip to Crazytown in a story that will leave you speechless: One Man’s Quest for the End of the World Started on a Ranch in Texas.

An incredible story: Power without a throne: how Khalifa Haftar controls Libya.

Fascinating: A Sojourn into the Stephen King Archive: ‘The Dark Half’. Typescript drafts on view in the newly opened archive reframe the horror maestro’s relationship with his alter ego, Richard Bachman.

"Erected all over the South"--what is wrong with us: Poisonous Objects: Two exhibitions in Los Angeles respond to the racist monuments to Confederate soldiers that have been erected all over the United States.

An incredible story of indifference and malfeasance: We covered a now-discredited medical examiner for two decades. These are the botched cases that still haunt us.

Bizarre (and sad): Man vs. Machine: For three weeks last spring, ChatGPT convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. Now he’s suing OpenAI, claiming its product dragged him down a rabbit hole of lies, caused him to spiral into delusion and destroyed his reputation.

This is exceptional: Vigilantes at Dawn A forgotten deportation, a family archive, and the cost of belonging.

From D.G.F., and it's both a historical and present look: Living Under a Concentration Camp Regime — and Fighting Back

From Wally, and it's a terrific read: How long do civilizations last? A look at Marines in WWI, including cats, rats, and aardvarks: Devil Dogs: 4th Marine Brigade. Timothy is a cat: Timothy reviews Moby Dick. A deep rabbit hole: On Gremlins: A brief history of sky goblins

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