Theatre du Vaudeville #edouardcortes #cortes
Trump: We have a conflict with Iran and that's working out very, very well
Techdirt
• Gretchen Heckmann
Daily Deal: Rosetta Stone Sapphire 1-Year Subscription
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Evgenia Karunus:: All Lean Books And Where To Find Them
Discovered: Aug 3, 2026 16:36 (UTC) Evgenia Karunus:: All Lean Books And Where To Find Them <–Super good list! Doesn’t have Kevin Hartnett’s ‘The Proof is in the Code’
LambdaClass:: Lean raises the bar: it converts logical errors into compilation errors. .... If It Compiles, It Is Correct: A Practical Introduction to Lean 4 for Engineers
ME:: Surprisingly I loved a non fiction book! First one I've finished in at least 6 months! Maybe because I love the idea of software that is provable and always have since the 1980s and my painful forays into Lisp and Prolog at Waterloo ; Kevin Hartnett:: The Proof in the Code - Quanta Books
Waxy.org
• Andy Baio
Ikea Complexity Index
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Iran Reiterates There Are No Talks with the U.S.
Wall Street Journal: “Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei rejected Trump’s suggestion that talks were under way, noting that Iran hadn’t sent any delegations or negotiators to take part in any discussions. He said all of Iran’s negotiators were still in the country, with the exception of Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who was visiting a […]
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
FBI Agent Is Accused of Stealing Cryptocurrency
“An FBI counterintelligence agent has been charged with amassing about $1 million worth of cryptocurrency, largely by making unauthorized withdrawals from a criminal target overseas, according to court papers,” the New York Times reports.
Silver Bulletin
• Nate Silver
What Trump's latest slump means for the midterms
Could anything save Republicans in the House? Plus, previewing tomorrow’s Michigan primary. And our midterms model is coming soon!
Electrek
• Peter Johnson
Hyundai is about to launch the IONIQ 3, and it plans to sell over 40,000 in 2027

Hyundai is preparing to open orders for the IONIQ 3 throughout the second half of 2026. With mass production set to begin in Mid-August, Hyundai plans to sell over 40,000 next year.
New York City just had its safest first 7 months of a year in recorded history.
Major crime plunged 12.7% citywide in July.
Brexitism: Brexit’s new domains (tandfonline.com)
tandfonline.com/eprint/ZGMSNXQF4HAZUTJURNFJ/full?target=10.1080/21582041.2026.2712308#abstract
What’s happened to the lazy Sunday drive? (theglobeandmail.com)
JPMorgan Chase to Invest $750 Billion to Boost U.S. Housing Supply, Homeownership (wsj.com)
One room only: the role of marginal housing tenure in residential mobility among low-income households (tandfonline.com)
tandfonline.com/eprint/JWFI7ZJ6JSH2JWKVVRZD/full?target=10.1080/02673037.2026.2705250