Dang they really got a category for everything

The Hegseth low-T thing, besides making clear how utterly obsessed with 'gender' these people are, is reminding me of the opening of Tuchman's The Guns of August where she talks about how the French general staff had decided that all they needed to win a coming war was superior élan vital.

fascinating economic discovery from Fidelity: houses actually are cheaper now than in 2020!* * if you denominate them in an arbitrary asset that has appreciated over that time frame

New: Our visual analysis of the ICE shooting in Maine, from the available video and audio available. There is no footage showing the shooting itself, but we obtained audio near the scene from immediately before the vehicle rolled into an intersection. 🎁 Free Gift Link www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

"Why recruiters can’t find workers and new grads can’t find jobs (it’s not AI)" www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

woof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.

Maine officials search the rocky beach for a new senate candidate. They find an unconscious man clad in tattered rags washed upon the shore. The sea provides for Maine, it always does

Oh I see, we're going *extra* hard with the QOTD on The Terminal today.

Americans seem to really not like, even this year, attending or playing sports (whether indoors or outdoors). But stargazing outranks watching fireworks—and that was before this weekend's smoke fest in DC.

leftists won't be happy with this polling but this is what you have to say to win back working class voters

Not only is race often fungible, new research suggests that racial identity and political identity overlap. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

Competitive hyperbole on offer as major banks issue guidance on SpaceX: www.investopedia.com/wall-street-...

“Apex of Civilizational Ambition” would be a great ironic band name for middle aged dudes playing open mike nights.

Lots of reversion to the mean going on right now

This era is setting up lightning-fast timing between something/someone becoming a thing and the "I told you so" owed when data/police reports make clear it's a bad thing/bad person.

ok, props to @apnews.com for this headline apnews.com/article/neil...

As a philosopher, and as a woman in philosophy, you will never in a million years hear me say that the fix for a personal lack of ethics is to study philosophy.

I open and end the piece with a quote from James Baldwin: “American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.” This should be the paradigm that guides our historical analysis and political imagination.

Tired: "Fascism is about turning politics into aesthetics." Wired: "Fascism is about grifting and hoping other people do that whole politics/aesthetics thing."

JUST POSTED: An updated tally is in, and the count of Trump followers turned financial losers is even bigger than first thought. Much bigger. 988,905 buyers of #$TRUMP memecoin have lost a total of $3.81 billion. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...

in tears at the guy throwing down the kangaroo after that PK

45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...

just a wild situation in Louisiana: www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

Most people know that richer people tend to be thinner. Less appreciated is that this divide is largely driven by women. My column: The economics of women's weight 300 free clicks: as.ft.com/r/feaaaacf-8...

German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born #onthisday in 1646. @jwyg looks at how Leibniz's early vision of computation and the “combinatorial art” speak to our own age of data, algorithms, and artificial intelligence: publicdomainreview.org/essay/l... #OTD

As philosophy rushes to claim expertise on AI, AI companies rush to control the philosophical narrative. Unlike other disciplines, philosophy has no standards for reporting conflicts of interest. This petition endeavors to change that: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

easily funniest goal of the tournament 1. corner flag saves ball from going out of bounds 2. surprised austrian defender full on leg tackles algerian guy 3. other algerian guy boots it into a defender’s nuts 4. algerian guy dekes out two other defenders, spectacular finish

NIH grants have been under political scrutiny since early 2025. But what does the screening process actually look like? What is being flagged? I spent a month digging into leaked docs and emails. We've published the 235-word list that are being flagged by an internal AI tool. And so much more. 🧵

Somehow this just came to mind, from Carter era: —On flight back from int'l conference, then-SecState Cyrus Vance gave reporters "background" briefing, for attrib only to "a senior gov official." —NYT ran story next day —Alongside story was photo of Vance, w caption saying "a senior gov official"

The headline is not the, only, story. Very interesting findings on the changing media landscape. News sites are rapidly becoming the newspapers of the digital age. And you know what happened to newspapers. www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/news...

At the Reflecting Pool, and guys, this doesn't look right [the National Guard has now been deployed to the Pool edition]

The NYC Gay Men's Chorus was founded in 1980 by a former member of the SF Gay Men's Chorus, founded in 1978. This picture was taken in 1993. The men in white were the only original chorus members to make it out of the AIDS crisis, which was still raging at that time.+

If Waffle House doesn’t make this their new slogan, then capitalism has failed

Who is India in this example? Oppenheimer: “[SpaceX] will be the modern-day East India Company of space, controlling routes, infrastructure, and commerce of an entire frontier and giving it a quasi-sovereign reach, far beyond that of any ordinary corporation.” www.investopedia.com/why-oppenhei...

😀 ftav.substack.com/p/torque-is-...

tbh I'm gonna try this next time I'm trying to get an article through peer review. REVIEWER 2: "What evidence is there of your central claim?" me: look these efforts to defend compatibilism are just too diabolical

postscript, had not noticed the author wrote a book with perhaps the most quillette subtitle imaginable: "Should we Eat Meat in the Name of Animal Rights?"

Imagine the pure joy of getting to write this www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...

Forget AI; think remote work when looking at postgrad employment figures: "According to the New York Federal Reserve, remote work accounted for about 64% of the increase in unemployment rates among recent college graduates." www.investopedia.com/remote-work-...

Found literally crawling by garbage collectors.

First it was MIT and McKinsey. Now Bain finds that returns to corporate AI investments are disappointing. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

White collar crime madlibs, I love it.

JUST IN: Judge Williams is pressing Trump's lawyers to answer for allegations that they committed a fraud on the court and filed the president's lawsuit against the IRS as a "collusive" effort to create the $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz, on rhubarb's origins: "To get from China to Russia, trade routes in the Middle Ages required crossing the River Rha. 'Rhu,' then, described the plant’s passage. And, since it originated from Asia, a place considered 'barbarian' by Greek/Roman traders, so emerged 'barb.'"