You might want to publicize the GoFundMe for Mr. Sabula. Thanks!

Thank you for approaching this difficult subject with decency and humanity. With very few exceptions (and this isn't one of them), we'd be better off remembering John Donne: "Each man's death diminishes me." (and then: "Therefore, send not to know/For whom the bell tolls,/It tolls for thee.")

Thanks, Mike. Well said and much needed. I’d say that the estimates for the No Kings rallies are an order of magnitude low. I know crowd size estimates are subject to the wildest variations, but most of them put the June and October No Kings rallies well into the millions. Many thanks.

I mean, what’s the use of stuff like this, really, if you can’t rely on it 100% for simple stuff like identifying a quotation? Are you going to trust it to fill in a spreadsheet or help with a scholarly or scientific paper? It just lies and shrugs off getting caught like a sociopath.

In her conclusion, she references Scooby Doo for the second time in the speech, and urges the journalism graduates to "break up the plots of villains." She's always been ready for moments like this.

I recommend Sharyn Alfonsi's graduation speech at her alma mater, Ole Miss, from 2013. It's funny and revealing about her fortitude:

whatrocks.github.io/commencement...

I recommend “Jasper Mall,” viewable on Amazon Prime.

Nvidia's deals to purchase compute remind me of when a friend and I in the fifth grade started a pencil-supply business. We put our pencils and revenue both in the same cigar box. No one was buying. Embarrassed, we started putting our own money in the box. It got noticed.

It's in Breezewood, Pennsylvania, taken looking east from near the intersection of Lincoln Highway (US Hwy 30) and South Breezewood Rd. It's close to the junction of I-76 (Penna. Turnpike) and I-70, thus the ridiculous over-commercialization. Well chosen illustration for this powerful argument.

Nothing I love more than reclining on the sofa to read one of these for an hour or more (usually more, because I often have to pause and digest the implications). You’re also so right that if levity is possible, it must be deployed as a weapon in order to root out lies shielded by pretense.

Mussolini was a former newspaper editor. Makes sense that he’d have this eye for detail.

The latter insist we treat following “news” as our most important civic or personal task. They may believe this, but it aligns perfectly with their financial self-interest. Personal freedom may lie in our ability to ignore both these types of people, vote every two years, and live simply.

This is the text of a scholarly yet accessible public lecture on Elser. If there’s an expert now on this topic, it’s Alan Steinweis.

www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/Stein...

See the character Major Powers in "Heartbreak Ridge"

You’re a force for good, which is why I’ve followed you for many years. This essay makes it clear why: you care about the loss of technology’s promise and the dilemma its warping poses for us all. Life is indeed better without Twitter or any other “enshittified” platform.

4/n Then we’ll just have more broken people causing all manner of familial and societal problems. So I’ll always vote against, even if this puts me into a momentary, disgusting alliance with the most gigantic hypocrites who ever walked this earth. End.

3/n I suspect now that gambling apps are everywhere and prop bets (with their outrageously miscalculated odds) are tugging at users’ brains minute by minute, there will be renewed efforts to bring state sanctioned gambling here. It will work for a little while, until it doesn’t anymore.

2/n It’s just one of an infinite number of business set up to hijack people’s dopaminergic systems, bringing them to ruin in order to profit others. Public policy has long been aimed, mostly, at hindering these exploitative attacks rather than co-profiting from them.

1/n Nothing but respect for anyone who argues basic government functions (schools, health care, education) need much better funding here in Alabama. As a native and lifelong resident, I am all too aware of these problems. Yet as a non-religious voter, I’ve also always opposed gambling.