This has me intrigued - maybe I can finally understand my in-laws? But I need something to translate what I say to them. Are we all wearing these things to have a conversation? Lookin' like it, but beats my wife having to translate?

Same, walked past Ad-Rock as he was talking with some friends on Mulberry St. and gave him the 'Sup' nod, he did the same and I kept it moving.

The Austin Tex-Mex restaurant El Patio has started selling chips under their brand (ironic, since the restaurant only served saltines forever and ever lol), and they're ridiculously good. Love Xochitl but the El Patio... Man.

Chatting last nite with a friend at UT Austin's Engineering School - he's seeing higher than normal numbers of people leaving *tenured positions*. It's a combo of fed grant idiocy and state guv idiocy. As an alum it's very painful to see the place getting gutted by morons who don't care about it.

Definitely chasing both the mapo tofu and the chicken. My in laws know the folks who ran it, but say they haven't opened up another place! Dangit! I need that recipe!

Three Dragons, Houston. Korean/Chinese. Shabby place, looked like it used to be an Arthur Treacher’s or something. Run by friends of my in laws. Their Kampungi- lollipop fried chicken legs in a bang bang chili sauce. Lawd. Mapo tofu was great too. Closed when it got robbed one too many times.

Love this story, Jose. Really heartwarming and way to go Donelle! (And thanks HEB for doing the right thing).

This is the clash between interpretive judicial philosophy and originalist/textualist (AKA common sense vs fundamentalism). Unfortunately, on SCOTUS the originalist/textualist camp holds the majority, so they may very well decide that the loophole exists and could be used.

This would be the originalist vs interpretive judicial theory at work. Guess which view currently has a majority on the Court? Thanks Leonard Leo! (I just listened to Stephen Breyer’s book on this on a road trip. Why yes, I am a masochist).

I'm convinced if you attain enlightenment you have a choice in your next life: dog or bodhisattva. I think I'm going dog.

Fantastic list! Only sorry not to see S.C. Gwynne's Empire of the Summer Moon wasn't listed:

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Amazing story, well told by Gwynne.

Y, from what I gather there’s not a great relationship there. wrylyreilly.substack.com/p/misunderst...

He wants it for his LLM. Want AI to perform governmental functions? Better start by telling it what the government actually does.

Especially reps in areas where federal employees are prevalent. National park service employees! Cancer researchers! Veterans! This isn’t rocket surgery.

Just more shitposting from... the White House official account? Jesus.