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Ten years ago today, JD Vance published an essay that called Donald Trump “cultural heroin” and “an opioid of the masses”:

During this election season, it appears that many Americans have reached for a new pain reliever. It too, promises a quick escape from life’

Earlier this year we had a rather unfortunate incident involving our 25-year-old stand-up freezer, in which the condenser failed while the thing was full of frozen things, which quickly became rather disgustingly unfrozen. The clean-up was stinky and terrible and no fun at all. Also, we needed to get a new freezer. Krissy got that […]

Overheard: “Today we celebrate the PDFing of “Declaration FINAL v3 USE THIS ONE - SIGNED.docx””

Kalmar began building its 45-ton ERG450 electric reach stackers at a Shanghai manufacturing plant back in 2023, aiming to bring heavy-duty cargo handler closer to potential customers across the Asian market. That investment appears to be paying off, with the company announcing four new orders from to close out Q2.

I'm old enough to remember the Tall Ships in NY Harbor on this day in 1976, the bicentennial. As a NY kid, I wasn't very impressed. I liked rockets and rock bands, sound systems, had started programming then, was working in BASIC at Rapidata, a time sharing company with its ...

Flexibits: Calendar Mirroring allows you to connect two separate calendars (like work and personal) so that events from one automatically show up on the other. The best part? No event information is sent to Flexibits servers or saved outside of your device. You can cho...

It’s sad that Trump is spending today attacking Senator Jon Ossoff on social media. Every holiday over the past few years has been filled with angry, divisive, and inflammatory posts instead of messages meant to bring Americans together. We miss having a leader who showed dignity, class, and grace!

In the case of twitter-like systems the limits of the technology basically lost us the web, something most people are just now coming to grips with.

Happy 250th, America. As we celebrate, let's honor those who built this country, defended it, and never stopped pushing America to live up to its promise. The fight for freedom isn't over. And the next 250 years will depend on what we do now. We've got work to do.

“The job that was once performed by Lenin and Mussolini is now performed by AI.” Yuval Noah Harari lecture at Oxford University (YouTube description): “Human domination relies on large-scale cooperation among strangers, which is sustained by bureaucratic systems – such … Continue reading →

From an article in The Atlantic (that is behind a paywall): “The (British) health service now has to spend more money settling maternity-malpractice claims than it does on actually providing maternity care. Many Brits can neither obtain an appointment with … Continue reading →

Here is the fourteenth installment of my series called “The Cause.” Here are the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth installments.

Good story on NPR about Born in the USA:

The 1984 hit by Bruce Springsteen describes a Vietnam War veteran who returns home to desperate circumstances and few options. Listen only to its surging refrain, though, and you could mistake it for an uncomplicated celebration of patriotism.

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The Yahoo Boys author Carlos Barragán will join Kate Knibbs to answer your questions about Nigeria's romance scammers.

As the US celebrates a quarter millennium, may we reclaim the promise that made America what it is.

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With friends, on video, to recall and to rebel

The CATL-backed Choco-SEB battery swap network deployed its 2,000th swapping station June 30th, wrapping up another month of incredibly rapid growth that’s seen the company average more than 200 deployments in each and every month of 2026. (!)

This country has a lot of problems. But think how people in 1776 would view today’s society. Now imagine 2276. What will it take to build the kind of future that everyone can be proud of? 🇺🇸

Also: screenshot of me searching for previous July 4th blog posts in Micro.blog.

Eugene C. Patterson fought Nazis as a tank platoon leader in World War II. He fought for civil rights as a crusading editor at The Atlanta Constitution in the 1960s. […]

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lundi 22 L'école avait encore un remplaçant. J'ai dit à ma fille que j'avais besoin de temps pour la paperasse aujourd'hui, donc elle a participé à l'école virtuelle, quoique grincheuse. Après l'école, j'ai emmené ma fille à son dernier cours de gymnastique pour cette...