Friday Links - 2 October

Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane is up first with Are You a Lumper or a Splitter?

Darwin divided scientists into “Lumpers” vs. “Splitters.” As Christakis summarizes this view in his book Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society, “Lumpers seek to group similar things together; splitters identify fine distinctions.”

Holly MathNerd - When Everything Is Racism

my review of Colin Kaepernick’s book

Chicago Contrarian - Leadership Vacuum in Chicago Creates Chaos on Parking Meters

The City Council made its original catastrophic parking-meter deal in 2008, when it foolishly leased the system to private investors for 75 years for a measly $1.15 billion after only three days of consideration.

Granite Grok - Morning Update: We’re Winning (Don’t You Dare Give Up Now)

Today, on the Morning Update, a reminder that normal people are winning. Republicans are winning. America is winning; the system is working, and we’ve got proof, but if you give in or give up, we’ll not just lose; we could lose everything.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Supreme Court Once Again Allows Deporting Illegals To 3rd Party Countries

This is deja vu all over again, after the Court ruled in 2025 that it was OK to send them to 3rd party countries

Chicago Contrarian - Only the Department of Justice Can Stop Chicago’s Outrageous Wrongful Conviction Payouts

The wrongful conviction racket could be the biggest scandal in modern Chicago history. It's time to bring it to an end

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 30 September 2026: Underfrog Edition

Anthropic announced not long ago that it was paying SpaceX $1.25 billion per month to lease capacity in datacenters that actually existed. The number now looks to be closer to twice that. (WCCFTech)

The only way to win is to own the stadium.