With two people dead in Memphis in four days and one the same week in Houston, that's four people federal agents have shot and killed over just nine days. July 5: Tyrin Johnson July 7: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo July 8: Alfonso Ivy July 13: name not released yet

You’re not crazy. Big Pharma IS preventing you from drinking fish milk. Haggerty has the story! https://youtu.be/eBT4MY7q8ZY

I went to a high-end restaurant in Barcelona and they sat us in a room waaaaaaaaaay at the back. I assumed it was because we had a six-year old with us which, fair, but then I realized the tables around us all spoke English. They put is in the Americans section. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/t...

If we can whip up a frenzy toward random short story writers who may or may not have used AI, can we also talk about the NYT editorial board? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/o...

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

My spectacles situation has progressed from, "I'm sure they'll to turn up," to "damn, I've lost my glasses."

I wonder how effective those party machines were at keeping sex criminals out of office.

no one uses the kindle for windows app, and everyone who uses it hates it.

We're gearing up for the 4th by explaining to our daughter how her ancestors got to America (English slave traders and the Irish potato famine... also the English)

no you don’t understand i was born this way (annoying)

Also I will say, my main takeaway from the Ezra interview is what an intellectual mediocrity Rufo is. He can't deliver a coherent extemperaneous thought and immediately retreats to whining about the lib media with the slightest pushback.

Listening to Ezra interview Chris Rufo, and seeing a Nick Fuentes clip a while back, I'm struck that they both have noticeable regional accents (California and Chicago, respectively). I consume way more left-lib media and the only accents I can think of immediately are John Ganz and TNC.

The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant

@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com are you going to publish the reconstruction papers as discrete articles? I was going to share the Grossman essay in a Discord, but there's not really an easy way to.

I just listened to this. I'd never listened to Louise Perry before, but what an embarrassing excuse for a RW intellectual. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/o...

I wrote about the explicit parallels between Musk and neo-Nazism a while back open.substack.com/pub/mypowerg...

I have been eating from a giant batch of saag paneer for six of my last eight meals, and I will be happy to do it for another six.

update on my query journey: Reddit roasted me

I submitted a query to be critiqued over at /r/pubtips. I can't believe how much apprehension I'm feeling over a bunch of randos looking at my work, when I know it's going to end up with 0 to 2 comments at most.

BLOCKBUSTER: The Milwaukee Bucks are trading franchise icon Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bobby Portis to the Miami Heat for Tyler Herro, Kel'el Ware, Jaime Jaquez Jr., Kasparas Jakucionis, 3 first-round picks (including No. 13), 1 pick swap and 1 second-rounder, sources tell ESPN.

I was reading a thread in /r/askhistorians from twelve (12!) years ago. Every other redditor is using the word, "delve." Either ChatGPT has been posting in secret for over a decade, or I've found the patient zero of LLM vocab.

HAHAHAhaha! they're making the world's biggest synthetic scum pond!!! The coating is a polyurea used inside pipes. It gels in about 3 seconds, making it non self-leveling. The texture is like an orange peel, the perfect substrate for biofilms. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

This week I return with my 3rd(!) profile of a member of the Odd Lots Discord. Wherein I went to Chicago and talked to a Principle Wireless Software Engineer, soft-socialist, and avid Magic: The Gathering player who goes by Fuzzyset. mypowergrows.substack.com/publish/post...

My buddy's had a bad month. First the seals on the engine of his foodtruck corroded (rotted?) and he lost all his oil while driving up the side of a mountain. The engine locked up. And then his tap water came out brown. More loose seals, and a $3k repair bill. This is a picture of him rn.

Apparently Google recorder censors bad words

A preview of what's cooking

The Google Pixel's built-in recording app automatically creates transcriptions, and Google Drive has a really nice interface for looking through the transcriptions and audio at the same time. I think it would be tough for me to move off this ecosystem.

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

🎥 The audience was giggling in that first "protagonist wakes up in the middle of the night to find out something is wrong" scene. They had stopped laughing by the end! This was great. High recommend for people with a steel stomach.

His article btw www.wineenthusiast.com/culture/ukra...

1/2 I'm in Chicago this weekend hanging out with a close friend who was nominated for a James Beard Media Award. I met some internet friends while he's busy. He sounds very impressive when I describe him. But he told me he's having second thoughts about his career

You can tell he’s got the charm floodlights at full blast.

I don't know anything about card grading, but I don't see how there's not an relentless pressure to inflate ratings. But at the same time, it's such an artificially conducted market that no one should care if it's lightly fraudulent

I have been lied to by the computers about the length of travel time on each step of my journey. What was supposed to take 2.5 hours has turned into 3.5. Train tables, bus schedules, and now Uber. All liars!

I loved this series as a kid. I wonder how it holds up, and how sexist it is. Also, it's only 200 pages. Are all the goofy 200 page SFF books self-published now, or have they gone entirely extinct?

Either the HN userbase has taken a recent pro-Thiel turn, or there is professional reputation management going on over at YCombinator. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

I'm listening to the Yiddish Policeman's Union and this has to be one of the best written books I've ever read (listened to?). But man have the themes about a stateless people aged badly.

I know that at this point Reddit is... well Reddit, but where else can you go to look for local tornado updates and find this kind of crazy video. ht: www.reddit.com/r/tornado

This week's content: some rationalist incel fiction. mypowergrows.substack.com/p/nancy-neet

CIA officer David Rush, who was found with $40 million of gold bars in his home, created a fake spy program to funnel federal money to himself, said two US officials. He has been charged with getting pay by making a false claim he was a Navy reservist. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/u...

i think my daughter is on to the fact that i let her watch her tablet longer if she's watching programming i approve of (octonauts) vs stuff i dont (most of what she watches)

why the hell is our library closed on sunday

The first day of summer break is shark day

My dad has the number 88 in his wifi password and we were talking about Nazis (Platner) and I asked him about it. It's from the tractor his parents had as a kid. An Oliver 88. This guy

I'm writing something about Dungeon Crawler Carl. I've come to the conclusion you can't really spoil it in a meaningful way. There are no Red Weddings in DCC; the fun is in watching what bonkers shit Carl uses to defeat the challenge du jour.

I'll never get why the media feels it's worthwhile to print the Trump administration's extemporaneous bullshitting. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/n...

This guy can, in my humble opinion, eat a dick.