https://paulkedrosky.com/honey-ai-capex-ate-the-economy/
“… passed …. peak in telecom spending during the dot-com bubble”
“there is a massive private sector stimulus program underway in the U.S”
There is too much money in the hands of too few. AI spend starves other needs of non-gov investment.
https://daringfireball.net/2025/07/curse_not_the_king_cbs_colbert_trump
CBS’ cancellation of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” is making the case for a wealth tax better than any pundit could.
https://www.bannedinyourstate.com/p/the-epstein-case-is-different
“Barring further revelations, MAGA will likely appear to move on over the next few days and weeks…
… For the first time, they are seriously questioning whether Trump is actually the avatar of justice they’ve looked up to all this time.”
Jedeed knows the MAGA better than anyone. But I don’t think they are that smart.
30y fits my personal opinion. Trump is the efflorescence of a thing that has been growing since the peak of American socioeconomic power.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-16-2025
MAGA rep recently: “Trust in Trump”.
Americans are bored with Christianity. “Churches” that shift to the new faith will be rewarded.
https://tech.kateva.org/2025/07/new-lessons-on-macos-network-home.html
The big lesson was that the flaky M1 Air WiFi needs a very strong eero wifi signals.
https://calv.info/openai-reflections
Lots of context here.
https://notes.kateva.org/2025/07/maga-anti-science-and-public.html
“It won’t lesson MAGA/GOP hatred of science, but there are good reasons to seek public input into research priorities through surveys and interviews. Public input could, for example, be added as a weighting factor in government funded science — particularly in health care.”
https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/elbridge-colby-is-both-cause-and
Lots of useful insights in this short essay.
“Ani, a blonde anime woman who, after enough positive engagement, will shed her dress to reveal a lacy lingerie set.”
I imagined burning cities; ours is a more lighthearted singularity.
They believed the Epstein conspiracy. They really believed. Do they now start to suspect Fox is not entirely trustworthy?
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/developing-countries-a-follow-up
Ghana is not the only African nation that has seen persistent growth since 2000. Africa is the quiet story — albeit periodically derailed by Trump-scale corruption and oligarchy.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/making-immigration-great-again
Numeracy is not common among the MAGA.
https://streets.mn/2025/07/14/sos-to-use-environmental-laws-to-block-summit-bike-trail/
The abundance agenda folk are right about the need to block this abuse of the non-wealthy.
https://cameron.pfiffer.org/blog/void/
Void responses are much better than what I can do.
“ infodown, voidrage, combat mode, or abyssal blast where Void is brought into an argument to completely annihilate the other person”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-12-2025
Noem’s puppy tried to warn the world. His death was in vain.
https://followmehere.com/2025/07/13/from-an-expatriate-american-to-king-joffrey/
“go ahead and try, king joffrey* with a tangerine spray tan”
“King Joffrey” is worth recycling.
https://restofworld.org/2025/chinese-ev-thailand-neta-backlash/
30 EV companies all trying to expand abroad.
Thailand: “Chinese models are typically as much as 20% cheaper than Japanese and Western alternatives,” – not as big a savings as I’d guessed.
In theory voters dislike corruption. So far Americans appear to think it is fine.
This is extremely recent and rapid evolution and thus it would not be surprising if there were bad effects such as auto-immune disorders. The nomads had huge plagues die-offs. Makes me wonder if Ghengis Khan had a hidden bioweapon.
Peoples of NA and Australia did not have those mutations. OTOH with a quick lit review I saw note of lower incidence of MS in native American peoples.
“European farmers and hunter-gatherers had not evolved resistance to diseases such as plague and may have died off in huge numbers, making it easier for the nomads to move in.”
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/john-roberts-worst-chief-justice-of-all-time
It’s tough competition: “Taney Court had decided Prigg v. Pennsylvania. The majority overturned a Pennsylvania law prohibiting the extradition of Black people to other states to enslave them.”
I think Roberts won’t pass Taney. But he is a remarkable corrupt person.
I would be surprised if either therapy makes it to humans, but I am pleased researchers have targets to aim at.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/07/08/grok-praises-hitler
Gruber reminds us Grok had an unauthorized modification before. Did Yaccarino promise to resign if Musk did it again?
https://huggingface.co/blog/smollm3
Scan it to understand more.
Students of the American prison system know slavery never ended here.
“with an anonymous quote from G. Gordon Liddy”
The stage is set for something beyond the NYT.
https://moneyontheleft.org/2025/05/09/blue-bonds-a-fiscal-strategy-for-overcoming-trump-2-0/
Or states issue cryptocurrency and IOU’s against the federal government. There may also be a historical precedent for not paying taxes to king who does not provide needed services.
Only one of many emerging ideas.
https://notes.kateva.org/2025/07/how-to-defeat-maga-brutal-medicaid.html
Contra-Krugman no human volunteer can manage this burden. But it’s a perfect opportunity for an AI trillionaire to demonstrate the value of agentic AI.
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/803953/?source=bluesky
For the sake of sanity give them your spam-only email and for mercy’s sake not your text number.
Online training July 16, 30. Aug 13.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/magazine/fda-collapse-rfk-kennedy.html
Because corporations and delusional crackpots dislike the FDA the GOP has always underfunded it. Now the MAGA have destroyed it.
Only Americans could destroy America.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-tariff-beatings-will-continue
At least we will need fewer landfills.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/how-to-make-america-sick-again
Yep. Doing everything wrong.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/hiding-prompt-injections-in-academic-papers.html
Some from credible universities. Instructions are for an AI reviewer.
https://techinch.com/blog/best-scanner-apps
I avoid Adobe but this I will try.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-6-2025
“core presidential national security and foreign affairs powers”
As America burns legacy media fiddles.
https://gwynnedyer.com/2025/iran-much-ado-about-nothing/
King Trump I is best managed by a revolting stream of obsequious flattery.
Hold your nose.
https://www.twincities.com/2025/07/06/real-world-economics-looming-farm-crisis-by-the-numbers/
Low interest rates caused land prices to rise and commodity prices are now falling. Some of this is Trump, other parts are longterm.
Meanwhile Trump is decimating healthcare in rural America while young women continue to leave.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-scammers-golden-age-crypto
GOP love for scams goes back to Amway and before. But Trump, who may be the most talented con man in history, is taking it next level.
The MAGA will be fleeced.
https://tech.kateva.org/2025/06/porting-landline-number-to-secondary.html
We falied with Tello, but finally succeeded with Ting. I think the carriers have more or less sabotaged the federally mandated landline number porting process.
Anyway, ported landline now $10/month on a secondary eSIM on Emily’s personal iPhone.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/health-care-jonathan-gruber
It’s rare I read these kinds of interviews but Gruber is another level. A must read.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/concentration-camp-labor
Inevitable next step. Somebody needs to do the harvests.
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/emerson-ai-and-the-force
Nobody predicted our times better than Stephenson (once optimistic) and Gibson (always realist).
“maximum loss of fat-free mass as measured by DXA had occurred by 1 year after the start of a weight-loss intervention, but by 8 years fat mass was regained without regain of fat-free mass”
Areas of active research. We don’t know if strength training offsets these effects but we do know most people will not voluntarily do exercise.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2502760?query=TOC
“The 5-year disease-free survival was 80.3% in the exercise group and 73.9% in the health-education group”
This is a much bigger effect than I would have expected. It’s a strong study design. There was no diff in body weight, this was not an obesity effect.
https://charliesykes.substack.com/p/the-conscience-of-lisa-murkowski?r=2k4r8&triedRedirect=true
Remember courage? Remember decency?
If you have both you are far above Murkowski.
https://tidbits.com/2025/07/01/anker-recalls-six-more-power-banks/
Maybe power banks in general are a bad idea.