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Spineless Reporters Let Trump Walk All Over Them On Iran
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Jockeying Begins for Lindsey Graham’s Senate Seat
“The sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina sets up a succession drama in the deeply conservative state that risks throwing the race into chaos less than four months before the midterm elections,” Bloomberg reports. “He had been set to face off against Democrat Annie Andrews, a pediatrician, in November.” “South Carolina Republican […]
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Carena Liptak
Reba McEntire's Grandbaby-To-Be: Name Revealed!
Shelby Blackstock and his wife Marissa chose the sweetest name for their baby boy to be. Continue reading…
Please donate to my ride up Cypress (er Seymour :-)) Mountain on July 26, 2026, the Cypress Challenge. 100% goes to Pancreatic Cancer Research
TwoMillionKit: Use Private Cloud Compute in MacOS 27 Foundation Models Without an Entitlement
The Scrubbed and Simple Moon (theatlantic.com)
Cristopher Sánchez will start for NL in first All-Star Game at Citizens Bank Park (nytimes.com)
Robin Sloan blogged about attending a Stop the AI Race march:
These things are growing and mutating faster than anybody can make sense of them. So … here’s a wild thought … let’s slow down, and make sense of them.
I really like Robin’s blog and his books. I don’t think a pause can work, though, because coordinating with China labs and all open source seems nearly impossible. I’d rather see better plans for investing in renewal energy and some kind of UBI-like fund to help with the economy. No matter the speed of AI development, slow or fast, we’re going to need those things.
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
• Steve Schmidt
This past week's commentaries
Well, it’s been quite a day with the unexpected death of Lindsey Graham.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Hannah Culver
APIs aren’t dead. Here’s where MCP fits alongside them.

The allure of emerging technology is undeniable, but adopting it rarely means completely ripping out what already works. Instead, new
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Sam Altman and Elon Musk Argue Over Who’s Running the Bigger Scam
Elon Musk, linking to his own tweet from March that “Sam Altman is super good at scamming”:
He takes scamming to a whole new level
homeboy you’re the one sellling public market investors on short-term space datacenters
Musk:
We start flying them next year. Maybe you can come see them if your parole officer approves.
After stealing an open source AI charity, you then stole all of Apple’s phone technology! Wow.
What do you plan for an encore? That’s tough to beat.
(All spelling, capitalization, and punctuation sic.)
These are two of the CEOs of the most valuable companies on the planet. Say what you want about it, but Musk’s Twitter/X is like nothing else that’s ever existed. Screenshot of the thread for posterity, and an XCancel link for those icked by X itself.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Battle for Future of Democratic Party Rages in Key Primary
“To hear establishment Democrats tell it, Republicans are as excited as progressives about the prospect of Abdul El-Sayed winning a pivotal two-person Democratic U.S. Senate primary in this battleground state on Aug. 4,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The former local public-health official holds left-wing policy views that could turn off swing voters in November’s […]
Day 31 recap: The final four of FIFA dreams? Is this Jude Bellingham's World Cup? (nytimes.com)
Tour de France stage 9: Van der Poel outsprints Johannessen and Pidcock to win thrilling stage (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
How Trump Failed to Secure the Strait of Hormuz in His Iran Deal (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
Opinion | The U.S. will pay for the chain reaction Trump set off in NATO (wapo.st)
Celtics’ Joe Mazzulla on life after Jaylen Brown: ‘There needs to be a grieving process’ (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
The Quintessential Politician of This Era (theatlantic.com)
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Bobby Welber
New Yorkers Warned About The Worst Places For Bed Bugs
A list of the top places with bed bugs just came out and New York State made the list several times. Continue reading…