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Trips! iPhone 4S Gatwick Airport, Surrey, England Tuesday, April 1st, 2014.
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Why don’t you both go make some coffee.
Jane Smith in Mr & Mrs Smith
Ra’anana Stroll iPhone 8 Saturday, March 19th, 2022.
Upon Arrivals iPhone 8 Ben-Gurion Airport, Israel Wednesday, March 16th, 2022.
So Not Exhausting iPhone 6S London, England Friday, December 10th, 2021.
Clear Thick of It iPhone 6S London, England Friday, December 10th, 2021.
Glorious Reversal iPhone 8 Scotland Thursday, August 26th, 2021.
Glasgow Stroll iPhone 6S Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland Wednesday, August 25th, 2021.
Belong to Glasgow iPhone 6S Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland Wednesday, August 25th, 2021.
Sailing iPhone 6S Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland Wednesday, August 25th, 2021.
Kelvinside, Glasgow iPhone 6S Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland Wednesday, August 25th, 2021.
Frith on the Hills iPhone 6S Keswick, Cumbria, England Monday, August 23rd, 2021.
A Lake, a Path and Some Hills iPhone 6S Keswick, Cumbria, England Monday, August 23rd, 2021.
Planned Meander iPhone 6S Stanmer Park, Brighton, East Sussex, England Sunday, July 18th, 2021.
Postwar Dignity iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Wednesday, May 5th, 2021.
Dripping Edifice iPhone 6S Littlehampton, West Sussex, England Sunday, May 2nd, 2021.
Handsome in Ditchling iPhone 6S Ditchling, East Sussex, England Wednesday, April 14th, 2021.
Marina Take All iPhone 6S Brighton Marina, Brighton, East Sussex, England Friday, April 9th, 2021.
Choices iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Wednesday, March 10th, 2021.
How Brighton Usually Feels iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021.
Winter Procession iPhone 6S London, England Thursday, December 31st, 2020.
Fully Appreciative At Last iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Tuesday, September 29th, 2020.
A Brighton Blesssing iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Tuesday, September 15th, 2020.
Somber Vista iPhone 6S Isle of Wight, England Thursday, August 27th, 2020.
Home is Where the Moka is iPhone 6S East Sussex, England Tuesday, July 28th, 2020.
Cow Cafe iPhone 6S Brighton, East Sussex, England Sunday, June 7th, 2020.
Infrastructure Overview iPhone 6S Monday, January 20th, 2020.
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
Germany’s industry-leading Lilium demonstrates both vertical take-off and landing with its Phoenix 2 eVTOL technology demonstrator, reports eVTOL.com.
Good bonkers, I’m Adam S Khan, the S being for Samuel.
I live in Brighton, England with Irit and our kids and right now no dogs.
Thanks for dropping by — it’s my pleasure to have you.
Sunday, July 3rd, 2022
While working on things that aren’t prestigious doesn’t guarantee you’re on the right track, it at least guarantees you’re not on the most common type of wrong one.
Paul Graham, What I Worked On
Wednesday, June 29th, 2022
Reflecting on this nice history of Meteor, the first reactive web framework, I never could build anything with it, though did attend a number of London meetups, because I was seeking reactivity and componentization after building increasingly functional websites. Only once Vue came along did I get the aha moment.
In The Atlantic, a beautifully—if overly politely—written piece on family estrangement, the sting is in the head; no doubt to get it past the young censors editors, the author has expunged all mention of religion and therefore duty from his discussion, save in this first line, which encompasses all that follows: “Sometimes my work feels more like ministry than therapy.” Author Joshua Coleman is a practicing therapist and prolific author. Looking around, his fee per webinar on the topic is $25. And he’s also a tv composer!
Anyhoo, the plot thickens, and my suspicions are correct: while he squeezed them out of the text body, he shoehorned in his convictions at the very edges as frames; look at this 1-star Amazon review of his book by one Acer Girl:
He fails to recognise how the nuclear family itself is being redefined and gay/lesbian parents are becoming more accepted, so it is rather inevitable that people will start to place less emphasis and importance on blood ties alone – so I really don’t understand the alarmism he tries to create around this. Above all, what I found really demoralising is his attack on one of the founding principles of western civilisation – autonomy and individual liberty. People’s right to live their lives in whatever way they wish and to associate and disassociate with whomever they wish. He claims this right should be policed.
And the final piece in the puzzle: he himself has been cut off by his own daughter! Estrangement is an underly-noted fault-line in the post-religious West; whether to honor or cast off the 5th commandment to honor one’s father and one’s mother — that has become a question.
Tuesday, June 28th, 2022
Zohar Atkins on Peter Thiel’s Zero to One:
Thiel says that monopolies pretend to be competitive while competitive companies pretend to be unique. The same is true of the book itself. It pretends to be another business book, but is actually a work of theology. Thiel is secularizing the Biblical insight that the human being is created in the divine image, that is, created to be a unique being. Cain fails to affirm his uniqueness and so looks to compare himself with Abel for validation. This basic sense of insecurity ensures a violent world. Many people and businesses can succeed in a narrow sense through imitation, but they fail to meet the human calling to be differentiated.
No wonder ZA gets the Tyler Cowen grant.
Sunday, June 26th, 2022
Tom Johnson, author of “I’d Rather Be Writing”, a blog on technical writing, chronicles his journey away from smartphones. We know the topic but the author is pretty specific in his upset regarding how he feels that the phone has degraded his sense of self.
Sometimes, I’d occasionally pull out my phone without any particular reason, unlock the screen, and just stare at it dumbly, not sure about which app to open. When I caught myself doing this, I was kind of shocked, but also too desensitized to act. At every spare moment of inattention, I occupied my focus with some info from my phone. Something was wrong.
Thursday, June 23rd, 2022
Monday, June 20th, 2022
Writing one sentence per line. OK it could be my coffee kicking in, but dagnabit, maybe Sivers is a genius.
Thursday, June 16th, 2022
So Marc Andreessen’s interview with Tyler Cowen is making some waves because he seemed unable to justify Web3 (see tweets from Ian Bremmer, and, more predictably caustically, Nassim Nicholas Taleb). Personally I think Andreesse ha’s made the case better elsewhere, for instance, saying that if the internet had originally had a money layer then we’d never have had spam. But for me, as the developer of a new RSS reader, I was more interested in Tyler’s question about RSS:
Tyler Cowen: Do you still use an RSS reader?
Mark Andreessen: I do. This is actually an exciting moment on that topic for those of us who love these things. I use Feedly, which I like a great deal. It’s a guy. The guy who does it is a guy who used to work for us, a wonderful guy. I think it’s a great product and the inheritor of the now-lost Google Reader, the ruthlessly executed Google Reader.
This is talking about books, but Substack — one of our companies — has a new reader. It’s primarily for reading Substack. It basically is recreating, in my view, the best of what Google Reader had. That’s the other one that is getting a lot of use right now. I use both of those.
TC: Why does RSS at least seem to be so much less important than before?
MA: RSS is one of those things. I would say this gets into a broader, overarching, huge debate-fight happening in the tech industry right now. Internet got built on two models, which are diametrically opposed.
So Marc Andreessen uses Feedly and Substack! I wonder why both. I also want to know which reader TC uses — I seem to recall him saying that he does use one. The man seems to reply to hoi polloi — maybe I’ll ask him.
Incidentally I was surprised that this was not one of the better Conversations with Tyler. It didn’t really warm up into a good actual converation. For instance, I’d have thought MA would have asked TC, the world’s most renowned information omnivore, which RSS reader he uses. MA came across as a bit robotic, whereas I hadn’t gotten that impression from him before.
Tuesday, June 14th, 2022
Dr Quentin Tarantino of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Monday, June 13th, 2022
What a nice bunch of independent-minded eccentrics they are over at the New English Review, where they have published an excellent brief frank primer on Israel’s perspective on Jordan by Mordechai Nisan. It begins with a nicely articulated section entitled “Jordan is an Israeli Interest: Four Reasons”. Then you can guess what the opposing second section is entitled, and it’s just as bracing. These two sections articulate pretty much what almost all Israelis believe, because it is the simple reality of things. The third section, however, “Conclusion”, goes I think where most Israelis, this one included, will not tread.
Friday, June 10th, 2022
Good for him: the great Guy Zohar quickly demolishes a climate alarmist report on Israeli TV [Hebrew video]. From here in the UK, it puzzles me why Israel also jumps on the bandwagon of American neuroses. But everybody does it — we can’t just switch off what has until 5 minutes ago been a salutary cultural parent for over a century.
Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
To paraphrase Shakespeare’s Mark Antony in Julius Ceasar speaking of Brutus: “And in 2022 the United States is a serious country.” Upon receiving a Bradley Prize, Wilfred M. McClay, Professor of Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College, begins (as published in the redoubtable City Journal):
A few years ago, I was fortunate enough to have dinner with a very wise friend, here in Washington, at his favorite seafood restaurant near Dupont Circle. I remarked that he seemed to be spending more and more of his time in a certain foreign country. He acknowledged the fact, paused for a moment, and then said: “I want to live in a serious country.” It may be relevant to point out that the foreign country in question is Israel, where seriousness is an existential requirement. But it is equally important to point out that the gentleman in question is an American patriot of the highest order, the author of distinguished books on the subject. For him to say such a thing was therefore, for me, a very serious matter.
Thursday, May 26th, 2022
The Londonist surveys Platinum Jubilee afternoon teas. Lovely foodie photography.
The Londonist covers the Elizabeth Line opening, May 24th, 2022.
Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
Some 45 years after his victory, Kan tweets Menachem Begin’s historic victory speech [Hebrew].
So it seems that video gaming positively impacts childrens’ intelligence
We analyzed 9855 children from the USA who were part of the ABCD dataset with measures of intelligence at baseline (ages 9–10) and after two years. At baseline, time watching (r = − 0.12) and socializing (r = − 0.10) were negatively correlated with intelligence, while gaming did not correlate. After two years, gaming positively impacted intelligence (standardized β = + 0.17), but socializing had no effect.
Not only is it newsworthy that Israeli company Watergen is installing its drinking water generators in Syria, but that (opposition web site) Syria TV reported the fact.
Hispanics: the new world-historic anchor whilst America’s Whites flounder.
Religious liberty, always. Parental rights, always. Right to life, always. Free markets, always. Compassionate but firm on immigration, always.
Saturday, May 14th, 2022
Venkatesh invites us to join him in exploring the hive mind (very meta). What a candy-maker, this one.
Thursday, May 12th, 2022
A reminder to just ship it:
I was scrolling their landing page and I was happy and furious at the same time. Someone solved the problem that I was solving. It was like someone literally read my mind and started coding. WHAT.
I have previously sent a video of my app to a couple of people (closest I came to shipping it) so I started getting suspicious if someone actually shared the video of my app with these people because they were solving literally the same problem, and they most of the features that I had.
I started getting this overwhelming happy, sad, and panicky feeling. I literally cannot explain how I felt while scrolling their page.
At 1:03, this transcendent moment of moviemaking, John William’s theme counterpointing Alec Guinness’s delivery of George Lucas’s creation. “It surrounds us, penetrates us, it binds the galaxy together.”
So right now all the James Bond movies are available on Amazon Prime, and with the sudden plethora I was stumped which I’m due next to rewatch. When in doubt, it’s back to Goldfinger, just the first few minutes this time. Once again I’m blown away by just how good it is; it’s definitely arguable that both preceding and all subsequent movies lead to and emanate from it. The post-credit opening scene with the swoop down to the diving board and the cut to Felix watching the dive from the glass window — what delicious glamorous filmmaking. “Into Miami / Pigeon Game” is the 1-minute musical accompaniment.
Tuesday, May 10th, 2022
What a penetrating look at an earlier Israel by the recently-departed neoconservative scion Midge Decter. A paragraph chosen truly at random:
How was I to be prepared for the discovery that a kibbutz, salvation or damnation, transcendent new society or dustbin of failed transformations, was . . . a farm? I was, to be sure, quite aware that the kibbutzim engaged primarily in farming—that, too, was crucial to their ideology and mine—but from such awareness I had not even come near the image of those flat monotonous fields, unbroken by any visual mark of the drama that had created them, stretching to their termination at a dusty road or property line—the same as must be required anywhere in the world for the growing of cotton or corn or wheat. Degania Aleph, weeping Rachel of the whole movement, sits somnolently by the side of the road (for some reason, I can never envision History as taking place alongside an ordinary thoroughfare, accessible to any passing mortal; History must be climbed up to or stumbled down upon) near the Sea of Galilee, giving no physical hint of anything but a usually drab farm life—with neither marker nor monument to set her apart.
Sunday, May 8th, 2022
A limited but at least scientific study of fasting for 8 days among middle-aged males in Poland.
After 8 days of WF, all subjects were found to remain safe and feel the sense of well-being. However, the appearance of the above-mentioned adverse metabolic effects [decreased serum Ca and Mg++ concentrations, more acidic urine], despite partially effective renal compensations, suggests that the further continuation of fasting intervention by the subjects would be detrimental to their body.
The occasional juice with celery and spinach should help with calcium and magnesium depletion. Or pop a supplement?
Saturday, May 7th, 2022
Tony Fadell from his new Build book:
And you have to hold on to that “why” even as you build the “what”—the features, the innovation, the answer to all your customers’ problems. Because the longer you work on something, the more the “what” takes over—the “why” becomes so obvious, a feeling in your gut, a part of everything you do, that you don’t even need to express it anymore. You forget how much it matters.
When you get wrapped up in the “what,” you get ahead of people. You think everyone can see what you see. But they don’t. They haven’t been working on it for weeks, months, years. So you need to pause and clearly articulate the “why” before you can convince anyone to care about the “what.”
Monday, May 2nd, 2022
Rich Dad Poor Dad
Robert T. Kiyosaki
Perusing the library, I realized I had not read this classic. Well, it’s exciting, and successfully inculcates the importance of assets vs earned income. The author’s preference is to avoid the hard work of running a business and instead use salaried income to buy stocks, and with any winnings, buy real estate — or finding other creative ways to finance the purchase of real estate. That’s the financial technique, but there are personal techniques as well, such as differentiating between poor (an identity) and broke (a situation), and exchanging the thought “I can’t afford it” to “How can I afford it?”. Nice, and one I wouldn’t mind to have available permanently.
Some choice quotes:
Savings are used only to create more money, not to pay bills.
I use my desire to consume to inspire and motivate my financial genius to invest.
Saturday, April 30th, 2022
Blue Moon
Lee Child
The great Reacher TV series led me to try a Kindle sample, which read well. Feeling in safe hands, I searched the local public library for whichever they had in stock. They had three, and I picked Blue Moon. I began with enjoyment, reflecting on the fictional dream created as we move from little setpiece to little setpiece (a Greyhound bus, a bar, a rundown suburban home). I so enjoy that imaginative experience of fun fiction and love inducing it in others. But after a while this story becones preposterous. The waitress he meets turns out to be a superwoman, and her friends become Reacher’s special forces army as the book climaxes with attacks on the gangsters’ lairs, the body count like that of a one-person shooter. It ends up being… daft, so I think that’s it for me.
Thursday, April 14th, 2022
In an interview on Israel’s national broadcaster Kan, this is a fair-minded well-informed backgrounder on Temple Mount tensions.
Jonathan Haidt is wise enough to note that it is mainly America, not necessary the rest of the world, that has gone particularly mental the past decade. Haidt blames social media. But the word “marriage” does not occur even once in the article, despite the decade having seen same-sex marriage transformed from oxymoronic absurdity to self-evident cudgel. If a human institution so deep — deeper than the nationstate, than monotheism, even than history itself — can be so decidedly upended, then what chance has anything else of standing, the collective subconscious must wonder.
Monday, April 11th, 2022
Screenwriting — and acting — genius: Billions, Cory Stoll as Mike Prinz, after a bluff that apparently puts Chuck Rhodes in prison, is watched by the replacement attorney general as he leaves to go to the elevator. Feeling faint and queasy from moments ago losing $3.5b in crypto while pretending to know nothing about it, he leans on the wall in a way a person just wouldn’t normally do. And she knows he was lying. On this subtle display of body language rests so much. Plus, the episode ends with Jerry Garcia singing “Don’t You Let That Deal Go Down”.
Tuesday, April 5th, 2022
Testing entire BPMN process paths — a Camunda blog article. I guess I’m being hopelessly naive but it seems to me BPMN could be used to test software logic; software doesn’t just power processes, software itself is comprised of processes, ie, the transformations that happen to variables.
Cool — Bloomberg’s Pret Index shows that coffee sales at UK airports are now higher than pre-pandemic.
Tuesday, March 29th, 2022
Niall Ferguson’s important and much-quoted Bloomberg piece of March 22nd on the cynical/optimistic Biden strategy for Ukraine:
It is, when you come to think of it, archetypal Realpolitik to allow the carnage in Ukraine to continue; to sit back and watch the heroic Ukrainians “bleed Russia dry”; to think of the conflict as a mere sub-plot in Cold War II, a struggle in which China is our real opponent. … The optimism, however, is the assumption that allowing the war to keep going will necessarily undermine Putin’s position; and that his humiliation in turn will serve as a deterrent to China. I fear these assumptions may be badly wrong and reflect a misunderstanding of the relevant history.
Monday, March 28th, 2022
It’s time to catch up: the UAE’s foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed (a son of the UAE’s founder) speaks in his rather nice English accent at the close of the Negev Summit in Sde Boker.
Friday, March 25th, 2022
Top-flight series of Hebrew animated shorts חדר וחצי about a bachelor clown and his home.
Tuesday, March 15th, 2022
The prime ministers of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia have met with President Volodymy Zelenskyy. The glimmerings perhaps of a significant new bloc.
The BoJo Doctrine: Exploit the potential of all renewable energy technologies in this country, from tidal power to hydro to geothermal … Make a series of big new bets on nuclear power.”
Thursday, March 10th, 2022
In the new inflation, the water-cooler is gone, the press serves as water-cooler, the government as press. This does have the fortunate effect of leaving the people available to govern.
Tuesday, March 8th, 2022
At TidBits Adam Engst points out that there are other professionals using Macs beyond “developers, photographers, filmmakers, 3D artists, scientists, music producers” who may not necessarily need such giant power but could nonetheless do with some improvements.
I remain flabbergasted that the FaceTime cameras in even Apple’s latest Macs are so pathetic. Even the cheapest iPad and iPhone put the newest Mac cameras to shame, and quite a few iPad and iPhone models have Face ID support for authentication. We’re talking about technology that Apple has used numerous times. So why isn’t it in Macs?
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You can get an iPad with cellular connectivity, so why not a MacBook? The lack of a cellular option for Apple’s laptops has been a glaring omission for years and is yet another example of how Apple doesn’t acknowledge the needs of mobile professionals.
I hadn’t thought of any of these things, but they are obvious.
Full transcript of Mohammed bin Salman’s interview with Graeme Wood of The Atlantic — and JCPA’s take on it:
This is the first time the Saudi crown prince has publicly referred to Israel as a “potential ally.” He also spoke about Iran in a different tone. In an Atlantic interview four years ago, Bin Salman compared Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to “Hitler” and said Iran was leading the “axis of evil.” This time such talk was replaced by calling the Iranians “neighbors” of Saudi Arabia.
Exercise is upstream of everything.
ASK
Friday, March 4th, 2022
Thursday, March 3rd, 2022
Bari Weiss seems bigger than the NYT! Her sponsor is Disney+, her panel is Ferguson, Mead and Fukuyama, no less.
Tuesday, March 1st, 2022
Russia, as parlance goes, is too big to fail; we need to forge it an off-ramp from this horrific self-inflicted disaster, as Commentary’s Noah Rothman argues in “What if Russia loses”, Sam Altman of YCombinator tweets, and presumably plenty of other smart people are saying.
Putin though is probably not quite ready to take it, thinking he may yet regain the military upper hand, as attested by the lengthy convoys headed today to Kyiv. He may then as Putin biographer Anita Hill fears, savvily offer the delectable compromise of partitioning Ukraine, wherein he gets the east and others can divvy up the rest. Joe Biden has after all a predilection for territorial break-up — he thought it right for Iraq.
Fortunately it seems we are well beyond Europe countenancing such temptations; Germany has reoriented around the danger emanating from Russia, the UK is acting on what it called it “a catastrophe on our continent” [emphasis mine], and a myriad of surprising others are joining the fray each in their way (Switzerland, Finland, etc).
Also, it does seem self-evident that Vlad the Mad has lost some of the faculties he’s had up to now, so that such diplomatic savvy might never be forthcoming from him. As of now, Russian diplomatic efforts in such forums as the United Nations are of the Baghdad Bob sort even as the Ukrainians are performing masterfully, not just spreading the word but showing Westerners (and probably everyone else): we’re your sort of people — more, we’re the sort of people you hope you are.
Once again, the West must win firmly, though this time — unlike after the collapse of its Soviet Union guise — there should be effective stroking of Russia’s vanities.
Cogent interview with Putin biographer Fiona Hill. She floats the notion that he’d be happy to have Ukraine broken up:
In 2015, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was at the Munich Security Conference after the annexation of Crimea and the war in Donbas. And he talked about Ukraine not being a country, saying pointedly that there are many minority groups in Ukraine — there are Poles and there are Romanians, there are Hungarians and Russians. And he goes on essentially almost inviting the rest of Europe to divide Ukraine up.
So what Putin wants isn’t necessarily to occupy the whole country, but really to divide it up. He’s looked at Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and other places where there’s a division of the country between the officially sanctioned forces on the one hand, and the rebel forces on the other. That’s something that Putin could definitely live with — a fractured, shattered Ukraine with different bits being in different statuses.
Partitioning the country; that’s a solution Biden always goes for. And if Putin suggests it, the Europeans may pressure the Ukrainians to accept it. Though it could well be that the European mood has changed sufficiently so that even the newly feckless United States could accept that, they won’t.
Monday, February 28th, 2022
At last, Mark Steyn is writing again.
I take faint glimmers of a new seriousness in the chancelleries of Europe not as a sign of Nato “unity”, but as the dawning realization that the US has blown the last thirty years and they’re now in a post-American world, and, absent course-correction, ultimately on the same grim trajectory as Ukraine.
In Tablet, Lee Smith writes lists the plethora of wickedly poor decisions that led to the Russian invasion of Ukraine:
Ukraine gave up its nuclear arsenal in 1994 in exchange for U.S. security guarantees in the event its neighbors, Russia in particular, turned hostile. What kind of strategy dictates that a state hand over its security vis-a-vis local actors to a country half the world away? No strategy at all. Ukraine was not able to transcend its natural geography as a buffer state — and worse, a buffer state that failed to take its own existence seriously, which meant that it would continue to make disastrously bad bets.
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By tying itself to an American administration that had shown itself to be reckless and dangerous, the Ukrainians made a geopolitical blunder that statesmen will study for years to come: A buffer state had staked its future on a distant power that had simply seen it as an instrument to annoy its powerful neighbor with no attachment to any larger strategic concept that it was willing to support.
To sum it up in few words: “10% for the big guy”.
In this interview, Francis Fukuyama points out:
One of the things that’s happened over the past couple of weeks is that Russia has effectively reabsorbed Belarus. It had been an independent country, after 1991, but it’s effectively become part of Russia.
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Dutch Farmers Fight Govt for Their Economic Lives
Will Americans Ever Trust The Media Again?
Kissinger Sees 'Painful' Need for Better Leaders
Stop the War on Doctors
Inside Macron's Failed Solo Ukraine Diplomacy Mission
U.S. Abortion Laws: An International Outlier?
13th Amendment Key to Abortion Rights
The Game Is (Probably) Up for Boris Johnson
Biden's 'Whole of Government' Climate Spending Spree
SCOTUS Poised To Cut Heart Out of Majority Rule
US Democracy Under Concerted Attack
Reining In the Fourth Branch of Government
Guns Are a Battle Over What Kind of America We Want
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Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.
Baserow challenges Airtable with an open source no-code database platform
Auto manufacturer family tree: Who owns what?
Emacs’s Builtin Elisp Cheat Sheet
Quebec Sovereignty Movement
Genei (YC S21) Is Hiring NLP Research and FullStack Engineers
Show HN: NeoPOP says “hello world” in open source
It’s 1997 and you want to build a website
Did the early medieval era ever take place?
Advice needed for backing up and hosting large amount of files
GVM: A GPU Virtual Machine for IOMMU-Capable Computers
Absurd Trolley Problems
GTA GeoGuesser
An Ubuntu kernel bug causes container crashes
Lurk – Language for Recursive ZK-SNARKs Inspired by Common Lisp and Scheme
Fields Medals 2022
Chicago suburb shooter in custody after killing 6, injuring scores in July 4 Parade
Six dead, two dozen injured in July 4 Parade mass shooting in Chicago
Hostile Russian-US incidents erupt in E. Syria after key Russian general transferred from Ukraine
After conquering Luhansk, Putin orders army to press forward against Ukraine
The Hizballah drones near Israeli’s gas rig slammed by Lebanese PM
Hizballah drones intercepted before reaching Israel’s offshore Karish gas rig
Israel’s election campaign may produce a new centrist party. Can Netanyahu win a majority this time?
President Biden congratulates Lapid, thanks Bennett
Israelis head to the polls on Nov. 1 after Knesset votes to dissolve
IDF officer among 3 injured in gunfire against Jewish pilgrims at Joseph’s Tomb
Prepared for the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
Israeli Journalist Visits Saudi Arabia, Sees Profound Change
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger Slams Talks to Renew Iran Nuclear Deal
Saudi Academic Calls for Islamic Religious Sanction for Normalization with Israel
The Escalating Iran-Hizbullah Drone Threat
Israel Weighs Options for Confronting Iran in Event of Nuclear Deal
Palestinian Authorities Are Systematically Torturing their Palestinian Critics
Israeli Strike in Syria Targeted "Game Changing" Iranian Air Defenses
Israel Downs Three Hizbullah Drones Flying toward Mediterranean Gas Rig
Israel's Naval Missile Defense System Proves Itself
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Sudan’s Burhan relieves civilian members of the sovereign council from duties
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Palestinian president and Hamas chief hold rare meeting
WHO praises Bahrain’s handling of COVID-19 pandemic
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Lebanese protests erupt as grim economic strain worsens
A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute, edited by Brian C. Anderson.
The Exoneration Hustle
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The administration has made genuine efforts to defend Asian-Americans from racial discrimination—except in college admissions.Nip Inflation Now
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A new educational model reminds us that classical liberalism produces better outcomes.Ancestor Appreciation Day
July 4 should be an occasion for Americans to put aside the punitive memory of grievance and embrace the reverent memory of gratitude.
At the age of 16, <strong>June Huh</strong> dropped out to write poetry. Now a Princeton mathematician, he’s just won the Fields Medal
Why is Viktor Shklovsky’s <strong><em>On the Theory of Prose</em></strong>, nearly a century old, still avidly read and discussed in MFA circles?
Why we love <strong>David Attenborough</strong>: He is an advocate — and practitioner — of a special way of seeing
<strong>Emmanuel Carrère</strong> writes about murderers and disaster victims, trying to account for his own deficit of empathy
For <strong>Janet Malcolm</strong>, “the freedom to be cruel is one of journalism’s uncontested privileges”
A taxonomy of <strong>Wagnerian performances</strong> reveals that while you don’t have to be mad to enjoy Wagner, it helps
<strong>T.S. Eliot</strong> kept his life so rigorously compartmentalized that he often seemed sealed off from himself
Global food fears ease as price of cooking oil and grains plummets
Britain’s new finance minister Nadhim Zahawi inherits an economic crisis
‘No safe place’ from artillery as Russians advance in Ukraine’s Donetsk
OPEC’S Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo dies at 63
UK newspapers: ‘Game over’ for Boris Johnson after key ministers quit
Parents of boy, 2, found alone at US July 4 parade shooting among dead
US receive over 400 requests to keep China tariffs, Joe Biden still ‘figuring it out’
How Nato’s stance on China has changed, and why it matters
CERN scientists observe 3 ‘exotic’ new particles as Large Hadron Collider comes back online
Rudy Giuliani’s testimony sought in Donald Trump election probe
Brain candy for Happy Mutants
Does your perception of this optical illusion tell you something about your personality?
Gentleman in "God" t-shirt attempted to burn down Satanic Temple in Salem, Mass.
Rep. Lauren Boebert tells Christian audience she prays that Biden's "days be few"
Secret malt shop speakeasy hidden in TV repair store
The terrible Mike Myers "Cat in the Hat" movie as a disturbing A24 horror movie
Details of Michael Jackson's involvement in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 soundtrack revealed
Man obsessed with right to bear arms loses both to homemade bomb
Shetland Drift: ferry does "handbrake turn" into Scottish port
How Washington, DC is trying to crack down on people owning large cars
Some of the wildest court pleadings ever heard
Visit the Chicago Sh*t Fountain
Nintendo Game Boy that Survived a Bombing
Score this headlamp for 21% off and never be without a burst of brightness
The Wave Organ is an ocean-powered instrument in San Francisco
Medellin bleg
Is AI still going to be totalitarian?
Some negative results on cash transfers
Tuesday assorted links
The Capitalist Kibbutz
Nabeel’s productivity advice
Emergent Ventures winners, 21st cohort
Peter Brook has passed away at age 97
Monday assorted links
What exactly is the problem these days?
Sunday assorted links
Mexican nearshoring is failing
The FDA is Increasing Skin Cancer
Is The Army racially egalitarian? (model this)
Saturday assorted links
Where the design community meets.
Shopify & GDPR - Complete Guide
Felt - The best way to make maps on the internet.
NFT Development Using AR and VR
Landwind - Free landing page template built with Tailwind CSS
Discover the best Figma plugins for 2022
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Top 10 Stunning Perfume WordPress Themes
Online Event: Prejudice in My Life and How It Determined My Success
The ULTIMATE Web3 & NFT Websites
Design as a subscription business model
Tailwind CSS Pricing Tables
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Free Business Flyer Design
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Rumors and news on everything Apple since 1997
Save up to 20% on solar generators in BLUETTI's Prime Day deals
Apple's A16 processor to be exclusive to iPhone 14 Pro, says Kuo
How to use Stage Manager and Spaces in macOS together
Lifetime Microsoft Office for Mac Home & Business 2021 license is back on sale for $39.99
Apple releases new firmware update for redesigned Siri Remote
Apple is preparing 3 new M2 Macs, 6 iPads, and more
Apple issues fifth macOS Monterey 12.5 beta to developers
Apple seeds fifth developer betas of iOS 15.6, iPadOS 15.6, tvOS 15.6, watchOS 8.7
Moderate Apple hardware lead times suggest better than forecasted June quarter, analyst says
Deal alert: Apple's M1 Max 16-inch MacBook Pro is on sale for $2,899, limited supply available
Price war: save $250 on Apple's 1TB 16-inch MacBook Pro
M2 Pro, M2 Max, and beyond: Examining the Apple Silicon release cycle
Opinions on corporate and brand identity work.
Announced: Brand New will Shift to Subscription Model
Spotted: New Logo for Blue Islands
Linked: Louis Vuitton Architecture
Noted: New Name and Logo for St. Louis City SC
Reviewed: Friday Likes 339: From Studio MPLS, Wade and Leta, and Unifikat Design Studio
Spotted: New Logo and Identity for Vitkus Clinic by Tandemo
Spotted: New Logo and Identity for Netgen by IDnaGroup
Linked: Biden &Harris &Decimal
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Reviewed: New Logo and Identity for BERA by How & How
Spotted: New Logo for Playtika
Spotted: New Logo and Identity for The 19th by Page 33 Studio
Linked: Objects may be Closer than they Ap-pear
Noted: New Logo and Identity for Zappos Adaptive by Eric&Todd
Reviewed: New Logo and Identity for Lot61 by Smörgåsbord
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Nexperia talks up its investment in UK wafer fab, says no plans to close
Health trusts swapped patient data for shares in an AI firm. They may have lost millions
UK tribunal: App Store class action seeking up to $1.8b can continue
Europe passes sweeping antitrust laws targeting America's Big Tech
Oracle, IBM, losing ground to local databases in China, says IDC
UK, South Korea, strike data-sharing pact
Near-undetectable malware linked to Russia's Cozy Bear
Twitter sues Indian government over content takedown orders
AstraLocker ransomware reportedly closes doors to pursue cryptojacking
Elon Musk’s brother buys Intel’s fireworks-replacing drone biz
Actual quantum computers don't exist yet. The encryption to defeat them may already be here
US expands efforts to hamstring China’s chipmaking mojo
experiments in refactored perception
What is a Life?
It’s an odd question, but what is a life? A good scoping definition to start with is: life is the objectively observable and subjectively experienceable existence of a living being over its lifetime. While helpful, this is a bit like saying a liquid is the contents of a tank that can hold that liquid. But […]Storytelling: Mediocre Metamodernism
As I continue my own experiments with fiction, I have been thinking lazily about metamodernism. By which I mostly mean I recently re-read David Foster Wallace’s E. Unibas Pluram, read the Wikipedia page, caught up with Shia Laboeuf’s shenanigans, and have kinda primed myself to notice mentions of the term (it has been trending on […]Infirmity
My 18-year old cat (around 80-100 in human years) is teaching me about infirmity and providing a sneak preview of my own future. He can no longer run but he can sort of hurry-walk. He can no longer jump, but he can just about manage to clamber up on the couch with a sort of […]
