July 12, 1776: Abigail Adams and her four children with John are inoculated for smallpox in Boston. They are part of a group of 17 who take the treatment together at her uncle’s house. “Our Little ones stood the opperation Manfully,” she writes.

That's a risk you take by eating roadkill and swimming in polluted streams.

The only other time the Shiller CAPE ratio was this high was the 1999-2000 dot com bubble. If you look at the S&P 500 level at that time and then its level 18 years later, the annualized return was 2.7%. $1,000 would grow to $1,604 in 18 years. With inflation this would buy less college credits.

We're constantly told that women can never compete with men and yet Kelsey Pfendler is about to set the record for the fastest solo row from California to Hawaii, beating the men's record by a full week. What an incredible feat of athleticism, endurance, and grit.

The NYT is promoting the stock bubble. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/u... Where the fuck do they get off pushing the line that the $1k in Trump accounts will be worth $6k by the time a kid is 18? Did Trump agree to drop his idiot defamation suit for this crap?

39 Performer photos from the PCA Open MIke, Parish Center for the Arts, Westford MA - June 28, 2026. Hosted by John Ferullo. Featured performer Tom Richardson

Will Frivolous Charges Be Brought Against Future Ex-POTUSes? That’s Okay Too. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-...

The distinction maps roughly to "throwaway vs. maintained" code. The debt compounds specifically when LLM-generated code lacks tests and the original author no longer understands it well enough to review PRs—that's the real failure mode, not the generation itself.

Cory Doctorow describes what has been my thesis about “AI” coding: it’s great for small productivity projects, it’s a source of crippling tech debt for production code and libraries.

Hey @jackconte.bsky.social WTF is going on with Patreon? Ever since February a couple dozen of my memberships have been failing payment - the payments do not occur automatically and time out if I try pay by hand.

Multiple things can be true. The claims of fraud are deliberate lies, but he is also, of course, a moron[*] deanbaker22.substack.com/p/republican...

It is eating him up that he didn’t know that it was spelled with a ‘b’ and someone pointed it out

Best advice ever.

Yes, Russia should follow Trump‘s example wrt Iran, and surrender to Ukraine.

Seattle elects a socialist mayor, wins the Super Bowl NYC elects a socialist mayor, wins the NBA finals Win your city a major sports title with this one neat trick

Paper Trillionaire

"A racist narcissist, who believes he is a genius but is actually amazingly ignorant, and is currently engaged in a massive con to inflate his wealth beyond imagination" It is a measure of how far we have fallen that that description fits (at least) two of the most powerful people in the country.

One of the great errors in fiction from past decades is that we always portrayed tech bro CEOs as geniuses when the truth is, most are dipshit bigots who got lucky or bankrolled by daddy. On their own merit, they fail every time.

36 Performer photos from the PCA Open MIke, Parish Center for the Arts, Westford MA - May 24, 2026. Hosted by John Ferullo. Featured performer Nick Noble

"In scale and audacity, what Kushner has attempted—and achieved—is on another level...He asked foreign regimes to trust him with billions...Trump placed Kushner—who had zero diplomatic/foreign affairs expertise until [Trump] rose to power—at the center of every international crisis..." Informative:

Guinea Keets

Performer photos from the PCA Open MIke, Parish Center for the Arts, Westford MA - May 11, 2026. Hosted by John Ferullo. Featured performer Rick Quimby

Performer photos from the PCA Open MIke, Parish Center for the Arts, Westford MA - April 26, 2026. Hosted by John Ferullo. Special "Sam's Cafe" edition.

He's the worst thing that ever happened to America. I despise him BECAUSE I love my country. 🇺🇸

Performer photos from the PCA Open MIke, Parish Center for the Arts, Westford MA - April 12, 2026. Hosted by John Ferullo. Featured performer Chris LaVancher

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

I wrote a whole book about AI but I agree with this completely — and also the implication that there are countless other areas of research more important than AI.

I am not kidding at all when I say that every Democrat with a microphone should mock JD Vance every chance they get between now and 2028. Call him weird and feckless. Laugh at his eyeliner & dumb beard. Talk about the nazis & freaks he follows on Twitter. *Brand* him.

Article behind a paywall, but my reaction is that this feels like it could be a propaganda piece to trick women into accepting inferior (abusive) men: "See: if you won't settle and become a trad-wife, they will find a wife overseas and then you'll be a spinster!"

Article behind a paywall, but my reaction is that this feels like it could be a propaganda piece to trick women into accepting inferior (abusive) men: "See: if you won't settle and become a trad-wife, they will find a wife overseas and then you'll be a spinster!"

When I see people talk about how great "AI" is at doing a job, I think of this post. If you think "AI" is great at software engineering, see this thread: bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Tech CEOs like to argue that AI will disrupt entry level jobs that involve research & analysis. Interestingly enough they don’t say this about tech jobs despite this being where AI seems to have found better product market fit than in displacing junior lawyers and financial analysts. I wonder why?

Time for book promotion! A Pox on Fools is a historical indictment of RFK Jr. & his anti-vax allies. I believe it's an important work; advance praise has been great, & I'll be posting examples at regular intervals. For now, check out this lovely Publishers Weekly piece on how the book came to be:

Just wanted to remind folks, especially the GOP and the FDD, that Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal didn’t give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz or allow it to keep 60% enriched uranium. It sent $1.7 billion to Iran versus the tens of billions Iran will now make from tolls. 🤷🏽‍♂️

8 photos of Garnet Rogers performing at Club Passim. March 8, 2026 #Concerts #Passim #Photos #SingerSongwriters

My @kickstarter.com campaign ends at 11:50 a.m. Eastern today. Help me over the finish line by backing my solo album project!

7 photos of Goodnight Moonshine performing at Club Passim. March 28, 2026 #Concerts #Photos

Maybe he can take some of the $$billions$$ that were allocated to ICE and CBP in the Big Horrible Bill and spread it across the reset of DHS. But no way can he create money out of thin air to pay DHS.

26 Performer photos from the PCA Open MIke, Parish Center for the Arts, Westford MA - March 22, 2026. Hosted by John Ferullo. Featured performer Eric Behr

Pyramids

A heroin junkie who bombs his dealer in the name of heroin supply independence is no basis for foreign, or drug policy. An American energy policy focused on getting clean is how you fix this. No one with an EV is exposed to the junkie’s risk, after all.