Let me place a disclaimer here. I am not going to be immediately linking to the furor of the day. Too many of these (on both sides) pan out to be little more than the chattering class version of vaporware. I am also kind of done with both sides filling the newsfeeds with bullshit stories to chum the waters and fellate their fans. So, don’t be surprised if we have short lists. Like this week.

From Reason, a DOJ attorney is arguing in court that money doesn’t count as property. There’s part of me that wants to blame some of this on the government’s reliance of plea deals that it doesn’t have the muscle memory for actual legal fights.

From Reuters, Amazon may be debuting an AI-powered Alexa soon. This has my attention since Ward Manor is wired for the Echo ecosystem. Do I use the Echos to their full potential now? No. Will I with an AI-powered voice assistant? Maybe, but I will probably have a bunch more functionality.

From The Free Press, Betsy DeVos, Education Secretary in Trump’s first term, advocates abolishing the department.

From Gizmodo, it looks like there is a revival for Buffy.