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“President Trump has spoken repeatedly with Kevin Warsh since he became chairman of the Federal Reserve, maintaining a line of communication between a president and a central bank chief that departs from recent precedent,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The president calls Warsh in bursts —several times in a stretch of days, then quiet for […]

Shimmering Substance, 1946 #americanart #actionpainting

Garden on Lake Thun #macke #augustmacke

Our favorite ways to share data between devices, what we’d like to see iOS on next after PontoonPlay, whether Private Relay concerns us, and any “dead” media formats we still enjoy.…

The 80 year-old Vincent Pastore was found dead in his Bronx residence by a neighbor on August 1. Deadline reports, "The death is believed to be from natural causes and is not being investigated by the medical examiner." The first time I remember seeing him was on a Law and ...

“The Defense Department’s second in command hastily gathered top military and defense acquisition officials for a meeting Friday night to discuss ways to quickly address a shortfall of U.S. weaponry — after he got an angry phone call from President Donald Trump,” NBC News reports. Mediaite: Frustrated Trump reportedly demanded Hegseth explain weapons shortages amid […]

A shout out to everyone defending the last ancient cottonwood in Arizona. 💚✊

“President Donald Trump came to Las Vegas on Wednesday to rally voters on the economy and tax relief. But, after a pivotal week for left-leaning candidates in Michigan and Wisconsin, he couldn’t help but pivot to communism,” NOTUS reports. Said Trump: “You lose your home, you lose your apartment, and that’s where the communists will […]

“Ideally, the Senate would be adjourning for a five-week break in less than 24 hours,” Politico reports. ”Instead, Republican senators are still navigating what Majority Leader John Thune described as a ‘train wreck’ as they face a pileup of legislation, key nominations and public pressure from President Donald Trump and angry conservatives to show progress […]

Venice, The Little Bridge, 1912 #mauriceprendergast #postimpressionism

Please give a follow to Le Corbusier @artistlecor if you are not following already #swissart #lecorbusier

Houses among Trees, 1890 #vincentvangogh #vangogh

“Sens. Bill Cassidy and Lisa Murkowski met on Capitol Hill Wednesday afternoon with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche as they weigh whether to support Blanche’s nomination to serve as attorney general,” ABC News reports.

Zak van der Merwe has spent his entire career at AWS building control planes. First for EC2 and now for DSQL. On the surface, the control plane looks quite boring: it records what should exist and reconciles that with what actually does. Nobody leaves school dreaming of building one, but Zak will be the first to tell you that if you like solving hard problems in distributed systems, there are few better places to be. It’s where many of those hard problems converge, and where the decisions you make determine whether a service survives its own growth.

“Years from now you might be looking back, wondering if you were as happy or as sad as you remember during this time. […] We so often make big decisions in life based on predictions of how we think we’ll feel in the future, or what we’ll want. Your past self is your best indicator of how you actually felt in similar situations. So it helps to have an accurate picture of your past. […] You can’t trust distant memories. But you can trust your daily diary. It’s the best indicator to your future self (and maybe descendants) of what was really going on in your life at this time.”https://sivers.org/dj

Forbes: “For years, Trump and his family have maintained that, even though he continues to own his assets, the president is walled off from decision making inside the Trump Organization.” “He is not.” “Sure, first sons Eric and Don Jr. handle the day-to-day responsibilities, but the president still weighs in when he wants, according to […]

Crackpot and election fraud conman Mike Lindell issued a statement today claiming he's stepping down as CEO of the financially strapped My Pillow company to focus his attention on the Minnesota governor's race. "Today, I’ve made one of the biggest decisions of my life. I'm ...

“A Senate panel investigating Dr. Anthony Fauci has obtained a copy of the doctor’s iPhone, potentially securing even more records related to the doctor’s actions during the Covid-19 pandemic,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The copy of the phone was transferred by the Department of Health and Human Services to the Senate Homeland Security Permanent […]

President Trump went on another rambling tangent about electric cars at a Las Vegas rally Wednesday night, telling the crowd he “ended the electric mandate” and mocking EV owners for worrying about range – claiming they have a “disease.”

Out of the entire unhinged rant, Trump did say one accurate thing: the EV take rate in the US is roughly 7%. The problem is that he said it proudly while the rest of the world is rapidly moving to electric transport.

A conversation with former Washington State Governor Jay Inslee