As concerns mount over Alito's vacations with a billionaire who later had cases before the Supreme Court, the justice claims innocence in an op-ed. / ProPublica, the Wall Street Journal

Even as many Americans may want to believe political norms still exist, their political parties simply don't share the same values systems. / Slate

See also: "Is everybody else going to lower themselves to Donald Trump's standard of governance in America? Is this where we're headed?" / The New Yorker

According to a new report, charitable donations in the US declined last year—it's only the fourth time in four decades that giving did not increase over the previous year. / AP

Because of a shortage of chemotherapy drugs in the US, oncologists are having to ration treatment for patients with potentially curable cancers. / STAT

The FTC is suing Amazon, claiming it employed dark patterns to trick users into auto-renewing their Prime subscription, and made canceling near-impossible. / NPR

New research suggests that short daytime naps can help protect brain health by compensating for poor sleep. / The Guardian

How movie review aggregators killed film criticism and replaced it with "a fluid conversation that's meant to rile you up." / Garbage Day

A five-decade retrospective of movies about AI demonstrates, among other things, that people really want to have sex with robots. / Hyperallergic

Marvel—which was built by artists—faces a backlash over the AI-generated intro sequence for its new Disney+ show. / Ars Technica

Training AI models is a massive undertaking that requires a vast number of hands-on humans—many of whom are located overseas and paid pennies an hour. / The Verge

On humanity's longstanding preoccupation of erasing its own history, and how, in the digital era, that intent remains as strong as ever. / The New York Times

From the archives: TMN's Giles Turnbull searches for off-planet storage. / The Morning News

"Before signaling his official intent to move the A's to Las Vegas, Fisher had spent years systematically degrading the organization." The stealing of the Oakland A's. / The Ringer