Friday Links!
Leading off this week, a riveting read: ‘I’m not a person who puts up with rudeness’: unpicking fantasy and reality with an Italian football ultra. I’ve met many hardcore, violent fans, but the hostage-negotiating, cocaine-smuggling, Marxist-Leninist Alessandro Casolari still stood out.From Wally, a NYT quiz (free link): Can You Match These Prophetic Lines to the Book? A deep dive into a particular recipe: Texas Red Chili.
This is an excellent read: Prediction Markets Let You Bet on Anything. I Bet Against My Own Husband.
Absolutely tremendous: The Troubling Disappearance of ‘El Gallito’: A Rio Grande Valley murder case was botched and evidence lost by local police and by Texas Rangers. Will anyone ever be held responsible?
Texas Monthly republishes some of their older pieces on a regular basis, and some of them are sledgehammers: A Kiss Before Dying: Betty Williams was a fast girl from the wrong side of the tracks. Mack Herring was a handsome football player with all the right friends. When he broke up with her during her senior year at Odessa High School, her world fell apart. But she asked him for one last favor: to kill her.
A genuinely wonderful read from The Digital Antiquarian: Planescape: Torment, Part 2: …to the Desktop.
Quantum computing is going to be a huge, huge deal (hopefully in my lifetime): Sooner than expected? Useful quantum error correction promised for 2028.
From Matt, and this is inevitably the first of many: Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time.
From D.G.F., and it's ASCII as art through the ages: Heikki's Garden of Flowers.
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