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Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperature record.

Remember Housing Secretary Ben Carson's $31,000 dining set? Or Ivanka Trump's endorsement of Goya beans? The rush of ethics concerns this term has made the Trump administration's first-term scandals seem almost quaint, @rosesheinerman writes.

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A short about the beloved Chinatown bookstore opens at the Asian American International Film Festival this weekend.

Sunday, August 9, 2026 Working with Claude on the user interface of RSS.chat was a grind, but we learned a lot about working on these projects, me in the form of my human memory, and Claude who can read the code for a huge sprawling app like Frontier, and understand it, in ...

Discovered: Aug 10, 2026 03:35 (UTC) All 11 courses from Friday’s Global Plates Filipino Soul at Haliná with Lechon Diva If you are on instagram, you can just click the link but it’s not text! Thanks again Lechon Diva, Chef Cris Esquibel and Haliná staff for a great fe...

Dead Deer, 1913 #expressionism #franzmarc

After a week waiting for review, Wavelength 2.0 for iOS was rejected because Apple couldn’t sign in to test it. Sigh. I include a special account for app review in the instructions, but sometimes they miss it. Waste of a week.

The Three Skulls, 1900 #cezanne #paulcezanne

On August 9th, 1945 the US dropped the atomic bomb, code name "Fat Boy" on Nagasaki ordered by President Truman.

On 6th August 1945, Hiroshima was devastated by the first atomic bomb nicknamed `Little Boy, but the war was ended.

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Three days later, just after 11 on the morning of 9th August, a second atomic bomb nicknamed `Fat Man’ exploded above the city of Nagasaki. Although it was even more powerful than `Little Boy’, the destruction caused by this bomb was less than at Hiroshima due to the nature of the terrain (the original target had been the city of Kokura, but the B29 carrying the bomb had been diverted to Nagasaki because of heavy cloud cover). Nonetheless, over 2 square miles of the city were pulverised and some 73,000 people killed.

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