A Polk County jury recently convicted David Marshall Murdock of first-degree murder for killing his ex-girlfriend in 2019 and attempting to kill one other person. Last week, the jury recommended that David Marshall Murdock be sentenced to life in prison without parole rather than death. After Gov. DeSantis signed into law Florida’s 2023 capital sentencing statute, Murdock, through his attorneys, filed several motions challenging the constitutionality of the statute and its application to Murdock’s case.

The Kansas City Chiefs have one of their biggest challenges yet in Week 5 of the 2023 NFL season. How do you go about slowing down the 2022 Offensive Player of the Year in Minnesota Vikings WR Justin Jefferson? L’Jarius Sneed did some more shadowing of top receivers in 2022, but this year they’ve been trying to strictly keep him outside with either Trent McDuffie or rookie DB Chamarri Conner getting snaps in the slot.

“Environments are not passive wrappings, but are, rather, active processes which are invisible. The ground rules, pervasive structure, and overall patterns of environments elude easy perception. Anti-environments, or countersituations made by artists, provide means of direct attention and enable us to see and understand more clearly.”  - Marshall McLuhan, The Medium Is The Massage (1967) “EVERYTHING IS FOR SALE” - The PriceMaster I told myself that I wasn’t going to use this newsletter to relitigate the hardcore twitter discourse of days past but I do think that something that happened over the weekend is a good setup for a topic I want to write about.

A few weeks ago, we talked about the German word Torschlusspanik: the feeling that some metaphorical door is closing on your life, and there’s not much time left to do all the things you’d like to do. For me, this feeling kicks into high gear when I play the comparison game. Maybe it’s a friend who landed a book deal. Or got a big job promotion. Maybe it’s an Instagram influencer who quit her job to sail the world.

INTERESTING ON THE WEB I asked ChatGPT to write a version of this newsletter and for Dall-E and MidJourney to make the data visualizations… let’s just say… I think I’m going to be safe - AI article here Opportunity Insights has launched the Social Capital Atlas to help explain how different social measures improve economic mobility A new report shows Black Americans are 3x more likely to face tax audits by the IRS