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I was into Ayn Rand when I was a teen until I realized that a Great Man theory was a lot of bunk written for teenagers who can’t believe how stupid the adults are. The teens are right about that, the adults have no idea wtf they’re doing. Never did. And yet somehow the world […]

“A never-before-seen photograph appears to show a syringe in the bedroom of embattled Trump-endorsed Congressman Max Miller, appearing to directly contradict his own recorded denial that he ever had needles by his bed, the Daily Mail can exclusively reveal,” the Daily Mail reports. “The bedroom image appears to have been taken by his now ex-wife […]

“The Minnesota Republican Party is again questioning whether Mike Lindell has lived in Minnesota long enough to be governor, the latest development in a remarkable campaign to stop a candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump,” Minnesota Star Tribune reports.

Dave Ramsey: A lot of people feel boxed out of the housing market right now. We've got a trillion dollars in car debt, a trillion dollars in credit card debt, 2 trillion now in student loans. And guess who's carrying that? These last 2 generations.

Indiana farmers on data centers:

Our livelihood is at stake. It's going to devalue all the property around. They're going to deplete the water. They're going to deplete our ability to grow food for everybody. It’s way bigger than everybody thinks.

I was into Ayn Rand when I was a teen until I realized that a Great Man theory was a lot of bunk written for teenagers who can't believe how stupid the adults are. The teens are right about that, the adults have no idea wtf they're doing. Never did. And yet somehow the world can support most of the humans born here on this planet. And the reason that works is we build systems iteratively to meet the needs for everyone, not just a few. We're a species-oriented animal. And that means unfortunately for the dreamers among us, we are socialists. All of us. Even the people who say they aren't.

Attribution is preliminary, and so far it seems no real damage.

And it seems like this is a campaign that has targeted at least seven states. And, because this is where the US is right now, Trump doesn’t believe it’s Iran and that Minnesota…I guess…hacked itself.

“I think I blame it on Minnesota because they’re grossly incompetent,” Trump said. “I would blame it on Minnesota and the governor, the corrupt governor of Minnesota. They like to say, ‘Oh, it’s Iran.’ Iran should be so lucky. Iran’s got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota.”...

Learn how to build tools to simplify how you work—without writing a single line of code.

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Jeanine Pirro’s charges against Olympian David Hearn fell apart because they were a corrupt charade.

“Democrats on the Budget Committee were frustrated by Sen. Ron Johnson’s (R-WI) first turn with the gavel after the new chair rebutted each of their remarks,” Politico reports. “Johnson, who took over chair after the unexpected passing of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) last month, fact checked Democrats on the committee after their allotted question time, […]

Fixed some temporarily glitches with blog publishing. Also fixed signing in with email for Sunlit. Apologies for the flakiness!

Fixed adding muted domain names. Before, it could mute Bluesky usernames but not reliably mute everything from a particular Mastodon hostname, for example.

Colorado GOP candidate for governor Victor Marx is circulating antisemitic images of his Democratic opponent Phil Weiser with horns.

“House Republican leaders are privately working to convince Rep. Chuck Edwards to abandon his reelection bid for a competitive North Carolina seat after an ethics report dropped against the congressman Monday,” CNN reports. “Top House Republicans were sent scrambling when the chamber’s ethics panel released a monthslong investigation that found ‘substantial evidence’ the congressman repeatedly […]

“poetry camera is a new way to see your world. take a photo with the camera… poetry camera thinks… and prints out a poem about the scene.”

A running list of restaurants that have recently opened in Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond, and beyond.

Grandma, it’s the first of the month. Did you forget the blood tithe was due? Don’t worry, gam-gam, I’ll help you figure it out. You can’t pay for anything by card anymore. That stopped being a thing in the 2030s. The Data Lord doesn’t take AmEx. It’s half a pint now, or a f...

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Study for the Self Portrait, 1855 #degas #edgardegas

Asked whether it worried him that Donald J. Trump has been talking as recently as yesterday about bringing back his so-called "anti-weaponization fund" — money meant to compensate people he claims were unfairly investigated — and finding some way to pay people out of it, Te...