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As Immigration and Customs Enforcement pours millions into private prison firms, the president is trading their stocks.

This flow:

1. Have a thought.
2. Start writing a short post about it.
3. It’s not working. Expand into a full-length blog post.
4. Still no good. Delete the draft and copy the text into a note.
5. Months later, pull the draft into a better blog post about a larger topic.

In other words, always write things down.

Major League Baseball's upcoming CBA negotiations have generally been framed around the question of the salary cap. Owners want it. Players don't. The rest of it—Juan Soto makes $50 million a year, a third of the league's teams keep forgetting to try, so on—is both true enou...

Lab Notes 035: building monetization features for Leaflet creators, starting with paid memberships — tell us if you'd like to be the first to try, and what else you need!

“Technology has been marshaled, if anything, to figure out ways to make us all work more. In order to achieve this, jobs have had to be created that are, effectively, pointless. Huge swathes of people, in Europe and North America in particular, spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed. … Given the choice between less hours and more toys and pleasures, we’ve collectively chosen the latter.”David Graeber is a Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics.

He’s being prosecuted for giving border officials a code that wiped his phone:

The case centers on a feature included in GrapheneOS, a custom Android operating system that runs in place of the software on most modern Google Pixel devices. Tunick’s attorneys confirmed GrapheneOS was running on his phone.

The software feature allows the device owner to set a passcode that deliberately wipes the contents of that device if entered instead of the user’s unlock passcode.

Tunick’s case also raises ongoing questions about what constitutional rights can be invoked at the border, which the U.S. government has long asserted is not U.S. soil until a person is authorized to enter...

“Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launched an online cooking show on Thursday that aims to teach to teach Americans that making healthy meals can be ‘delicious and affordable,’ according to the show’s splashy new web page,” NOTUS reports.

“ABC accused the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday of retaliating against the company because the agency ‘dislikes the content and viewpoints expressed’ on the network’s programs, the latest salvo in the unusual clash between the company and the Trump administration,” the New York Times reports.

The GV60 Magma will begin arriving at dealerships soon. Priced $10,000 higher than the Hyundai IONIQ 5 N, is it worth upgrading to the Genesis?

A delicious deal in Dinkytown.

The on-again, off-again, new forever war we’ve been cursed with because Donald Trump felt people just weren’t paying attention to him enough is going to be headache for years to come. Trump assumes that if he acts like a bully, everyone will just back down. But now he’s dealing with a regime just as willing […]

Three approaches to the issue of quantum results that can't be verified classically.

The Middle Ages weren’t just shaped by monarchs and wars — they were lived by everyday people whose names appear in the records they left behind. Parish registers, royal charters, tax rolls, and literature give us a glimpse into the history of common names in medieval Englan...

Every city experiences noticeable changes with the march of time. Political leaders come and go, businesses appear and disappear, old landmarks are destroyed and new ones erected. To paraphrase the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus, nothing is permanent within these cente...

There are around 8 billion people on Earth today, and 1.4 billion of them are in China, making the country home to around 17.5% of the global population. If that seems high, consider that at the turn of the 19th century, a whopping 1 in 3 people lived in China.  Between...

Ever since Harry S. Truman’s presidential terms, from 1945 until 1953, presidents have been given descriptive code names used by the Secret Service to provide an added layer of anonymity when discussing the movements of the commander in chief. The process of selecting these ...

Found the following on Tyler Cowen’s blog: Schools in at least three states will be equipped with drones this year that can zoom through halls, smash windows and pepper-spray active shooters if teachers report a threat. At least nine schools … Continue reading →

Tucker Carlson Show: Trump's campaign promises are being broken and openly mocked

Tucker Carlson: Invading Iran is wrecking our country

Harry Enten: 78% of Americans don't think Trump is focused enough on lowering prices