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I spent last week at a summer music camp put on by WCAMS, the West Coast Amateur Musicians Society, pronounced “Wickams”. My goal in writing this is to influence a few readers in the direction of attending this sort of thing if there’s one near you. You might be a candidate if you partake of some subset of: Loving music, getting old, being female, worrying about mental fitness, and having time available to invest as you please rather than as you must

San Francisco, July 2024.

Netflix recently dropped Season 2 of 'Ransom Canyon,' but the show's loyal fans are already wondering what's next for the series. Continue reading…

Republicans and Donald Trump will do ANYTHING to cheat in the midterm elections (99 days from today!). Their latest dirty trick is to try to have the Supreme Court allow them to limit mail-in voting through the secretive "shadow docket." For those unaware, the Shadow Docket...

Shawn Ryan: Funny enough, the only names in the Epstein files that were redacted were the abusers.

Trump's vast assault on the public trust has bipartisan consequences.

Reporter: 65% of Americans disapprove of the way Trump is handing the economy. 78% of Americans say his administration isn't focusing enough on lowering prices.

A new trailer for 'Lioness' Season 3 reveals who Joe's team will be fighting, and why her family could be at risk. Continue reading…

Wall Street Journal: “Thanks to U.S. crude prices averaging $95 a barrel between March and June—up from about $66 before the Iran war—ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Occidental Petroleum are expected to collectively rake in some $31 billion in earnings for the second quarter of the year, according to FactSet estimates. That is up from about […]

Trump is fixated on the false, long-debunked claim that vaccines cause autism.

UFC fighter Sean Strickland: When you're at a Trump rally, you're like 'oh, I can definitely see how Hitler happened.' It's a cult

UFC fighter Sean Strickland: It is kind of crazy how unpopular Trump is. Even hardcore Republicans are like, 'I feel fucking betrayed.' The people that have voted for you, that rallied around you—you actively just fucking spit in their fucking face.

WordPress works with RSS.chat in a beautiful way.

https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-rss-chat

I was saying for a long time that RSS 2.0 would make a good basic format for a distributed social network.

This is the beginning of what I was talking about. ;-)
https://rss.chat

Three U.S. travel hubs are ditching federal transportation security for private contractors.

Baidu’s Apollo Go started robotaxi road testing in London today, and it’s doing it with both of ride-hailing’s biggest names at once — Uber and Freenow by Lyft.

The launch lands days after Apollo Go ran the first fully driverless trial in any right-hand-drive market, in Hong Kong. Two milestones in one week, on opposite ends of the world.

TechCrunch reporting about the grid:

The largest electrical grid in the U.S. has struggled to cope with an onslaught of data centers. Now, after an auction to add more generating capacity fell short, the grid’s operator, PJM Interconnection, has said it will cut off data centers and other large users during power shortages.

Totally reasonable. In fact, the new OpenAI data center in Georgia announced last week has this partially baked in, saying they will “proactively reduce its power consumption before residential customers are impacted during periods of high demand”.

“Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has a warning and a plea for President Donald Trump: Don’t deport the hundreds of thousands of Haitians who have been living in the U.S. sometimes for longer than a decade,” Bloomberg reports. Said DeWine: “What good does it do to ship them out of the United States? And I think […]

Shawn Ryan: Trump's 80th birthday party—I mean, America's 250th that was celebrated on Trump's 80th birthday, 20 days before America's 250th

For the most part, I’m going to focus on Mac apps with these columns, because that’s where the action seems to be these days.…