Wärmepumpe beim Hauskauf: So stark steigt der Preis (faz.net)
A Shooting at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto Exposes a Neighborhood’s Guns-for-Hire Network (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
How a Ukrainian Bank Worker Came to Face Life in a Russian Prison (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
Tommy John, Pitcher Who Gave His Name to Career-Saving Surgery, Dies at 83 (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
The most common cancer is easy to miss. Here’s what to look for. (wapo.st)
Dansby Swanson exits with apparent injury, creating questions for Cubs’ best-in-baseball defense (nytimes.com)
AI Is Helping Patients Solve Medical Mysteries (wsj.com)
Meeting Between Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch Provokes Political Furor (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
Blanche Refuses to Say He’ll Always Be Independent of Trump as Attorney General (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
Curiosity, Coinage, and the Work of Making Knowledge Useful (medium.com)
Scott Loftesness
• Scott Loftesness
Music Playlist Prompts
A day or two ago I reminisced about San Francisco’s KKSF which was a delightful listen during the late 80’s-early 90’s. While I was working on that post, it dawned on me that I could try using AI to write a prompt to use with a new feature in Apple Music that allows you to […]
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Russia's Largest Wildberries Goes Up In Smoke
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• Chris capper Liebenthal
CNN Panelist Calls Out Transphobic MAGA
Why is the front page for blogging different from the front page period.
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Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Quote of the Day
“While the sailors on the Lincoln fight his war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings. He golfs and trades stocks. So he doesn’t want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by […]
The Moral Unseriousness of Centrist & Conservative Pundits
kottke.org: Jamelle Bouie “chastises American political & cultural pundits for their lack of moral seriousness w/r/t their focus on ‘wokeness’ instead of the real harms being done by the authoritarian Trump regime.”
MAGA is building concentration camps, purging Blacks from high levels of the military, taking billions of dollars in bribes, murdering protesters, protecting pedophiles, committing violent insurrection and protecting those insurrectionists, “imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy.
Meanwhile, pundits are concerned about pronouns.
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• Dave Winer
The Trump administration is building a growing detention archipelago overseas, often in unstable or autocratic countries. And in cases like Mosquera’s, it’s turning deportation into a form of indefinite imprisonment with no legal recourse.
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RSS doesn’t go down either.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
The Seven-State Battle for Senate
Republicans hold a 53-to-47 Senate majority—and the vice president breaks ties in their favor. That means Democrats must flip at least four seats, not three, to take control of the upper chamber. The battleground has narrowed to seven states. Join now to continue reading. Members get exclusive analysis, bonus features and no advertising. Learn more. […]