Good Things Friday (385) and Link Love
July 17, 2026
This is good, though it’s a shame none of the photos show the scale of hundreds of people:
Photos: Hundreds protest at Open AI, Anthropic offices in San Francisco
Also good: These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech
BTW if you’re a fan of amazing awesome librarians you really need to read Kit Rocha’s Mercenary Librarians series. Please read and buy them. I very much need the next books and that can’t happen until their third book earns out. I’m planning to pester Tor about making a worthwhile offer to Kit Rocha so they can write Books four and five, dammit.
Vox: We’re not as helpless against dementia as we think. The shingles vaccine may protect your brain. The bigger story is even more hopeful.
Well that’s … a story: Angel Makers of Nagyrév
Bona Books experiencing the impacts of having to investigate and root out AI generated stories (I’ve been living my own nightmare with this sort of thing in my industry and am moderately relieved that for the moment it’s not my immediate-today problem but also appalled at how much more complicated this is making my job hunt): Honey, We Bought an AI Story
Katherine Hayhoe at Patreon: Mangrove forests are proof that protecting nature works
To borrow a phrase from Greg Doucette, Cops are great: Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman He Met on a TV Set After Surveilling Her With a License Plate Reader
Could we possibly learn from our mistakes as the South Koreans have done?
