-Humor in McSweeney’s, New Yorker, etc. -Climate change, security, & disinformation by day -Preorder my Alpha male satire: MANTHOLOGY, by Chud Buffly https://tinyurl.com/msa64vc3 Personal views
New piece in @mcsweeneys.net today about a wine store and its reward program, which is easy and straightforward
Your Local Wine Store’s Super Simple Rewards Card Program“We want our system to be simple, fun, and fair to everyone. So, to make sure that customers aren’t gaming the rewards by buying our cheaper wines to quickly...www.mcsweeneys.netThe fact that a man like this can have a net worth larger than almost 100 countries’ combined GDP, make his company indispensable to the US government, and control a massive media platform is simply an unacceptable global risk, before you even get to the inequality part.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.
“Racism is good and policy should be designed to reflect that principle,” couched in euphemism, is an acceptable opinion in the anglosphere leadership class but “racism is bad and policy should be designed to reflect that principle” is wokeness gone amok and unacceptable bsky.app/profile/okwo...
Musa OkwongaThe editor in chief of The Economist referring here to the AfD’s leader as a “perfectly thoughtful person“ instead of what she truly is - a driver and enabler of German fascism - is a huge part of the problem.
Pornainen, Finland (pop 5,000) is now heated by a silo of crushed soapstone. I spoke to CNBC about it. 100 MWh, charged when power is cheap, emissions down ~70%. Days to weeks of storage, no critical minerals. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/f...
Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand batteryA small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.www.cnbc.com
Being antivax is literally the only thing that distinguishes MAHA from garden variety wellness fads and years-long food policy debates.
The AtlanticA lot of people in public health believe that MAHA is “nothing more than a subversive anti-vaccine, anti-science syndicate,” but the movement is an opportunity that the public-health sector “cannot afford to squander,” Craig Spencer argues:
The people who are mad a Zohran calling Netanyahu a war criminal are just using him as an avatar for what they're actually mad at - a tremendous shift in public opinion that is leaving them behind. They're yelling at him because they can't scream at the political tides.
JLRayThe latest from YouGov (n ~ 7k): some shocking numbers on major foreign policy questions Has Netanyahu committed war crimes? Yes +24 Should US arrest Netanyahu? Yes +18 Is Pentagon budget request too much/ little? Too much +47 Should US help Saudi nuclear program? No +33 yougov.com/en-us/search...
The Epstein Cover-Up Goes All The Way To The Almost TopYouTube video by The Onionwww.youtube.comThe BulwarkRogan: Most people think Epstein was Mossad. Vance: "Ya. Mossad or CIA or some other deep state, whether in America or Israel…He clearly had connections to the highest levels of American intelligence. He clearly had connections to the highest level of Israeli intelligence."
a) college is not trade school. the point is not only to get a high paying job b) this will destroy fields like social work and librarianship, which are super important but wildly underpaid even though they often require advanced degrees in part because they’re “care” jobs primarily held by women
NPRIf an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?
