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- The Master List - good advice. No multitasking and write everything down.
- Was China's military just hacked? If true this is a huge blow to the CCP.
- History's Personally Revealing Anecdotes.
- Great Britain is a warning. Sadly true.
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- Russ Roberts: The head of the snake - life in Israel during the Second Iran War.
- Nations have agency and sovereignty over their territories. And elections have consequences a reminder to those touting free cheese.
- House oversight Committee concludes Tim Walz administration knew about fraud but failed to act.
- Paramount Skydance debt downgraded to junk bond status by Fitch.
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- I'm just learning about Waifu Amelia and I love how she's been adopted in England.
- Jonathan Turley on Keith Ellison in Minnesota.
- Duke files suit over QB Darian Mensah's intention to transfer.
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- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya announces new policies at NIH to increase freedom, science and trust. This is what we voted for.
- Paramount (CBS) in talks to buy The Free Press for up to $200 million. So "free" costs $200 million. Meanwhile look for CBS editors and producers to leave because they are used to their bias and don't like "free press."
- The illusion of Fed independence. Interesting history of the Federal reserve and "independence."
- Glenn Reynolds: Saving Democracy. He's not wrong,
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- I only recently started reading Discourse and I'm sad to learn it's ending its run.
- People who can't understand a biscuit. I feel seen.
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- Glenn Reynolds: The dam is breaking on Britain's illegal immigration crisis.
- Peter Attia: Are berries and red wine the secret to a longer life? Not so fast.
- Interesting - crowdsourcing federal mass transit ideas. Think this could work for many departments. People always have the best ideas.
- Bill Maher: Democrats must choose sanity over wokeness now. He's not wrong.
Currently reading Dan Jones Henry V and enjoying it very much. Should be noted that the England Henry was born into had a population of about 2.3 million people which is about the size of modern Houston, Texas. Henry is not born a prince but simply the eldest son of a Duke.
The King is Richard II who started out humble but quickly became unhinged. "Following the Revenge Parliament - following the purge of the Appellants, Richard's approach to kingship, which has always tended towards the theatrical and capricious, now goes generally unchecked."
"Young Henry had to remain in England with Richard II who banished his father Henry Bolingbroke from the country. While the king while not mad is a dangerous person to know. There is astonishing caprice of a king who calls for God's judgement and then substitutes his own."
"Is this madness or melodrama? Narcissism or simple tyranny?" Whatever it is - it makes for good reading. At the point where Henry just became king and enjoying it very much.
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- Interesting review of two books on spies and the Cold War. This conclusion was worth noting, "both authors agree that cuts to intelligence budgets end up costing more than they save."
- Good reminder from time to time.
- Is this the US putting Britain's commitment to free speech to the test?
- Center for Immigration Studies with an explainer of Trump's immigration/border Executive Orders.
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- Interesting - what's so important about the Majorana 1? Beside the fact I've been saying the name wrong,
- Bipartisan coalition finally tells Europe, and the FBI, to shove it.
- Is Ivermectin, Fenbendazole, and Mebendazole a super medicine? Sure looks that way.
- Waymo's factory in Arizona. Dawn of the driverless cars?
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- RIP Teri Garr. Not the news I expected to wake up to. Hard to believe she was 79. She was forever young in my mind.
- Learn something new every day: Imposters stole thousands of pounds of cheese in England.
- "There was no question the Big Guy was Joe Biden"
- Niall Ferguson on using history as a practical time machine to address modern problems.
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- But I was told Three Mile Island and Microsoft were bad.
- Take Something Away. Good advice.
- The Pixar story rules. (Via Tim Ferriss)
- Foundations: Why Britain's economy has stagnated. Long read.
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- The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel. A long video that I haven't watched yet because of it's length but am placing it here so I don't forget.
- Peter Attia on a report on supplements.
- Secret Service apologizes to salon owner for breaking in to use their bathroom without permission. Everyone is turning into tyrants.
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- The Comic Books Script Archive. Probably spend hours here. (HT Tim Ferriss)
- Jonathan Turley: A Harris-Walz administration would be a disaster for free speech. A woman who claims to be black and a man who claims to be a combat veteran want to be in charge of what you are allowed to say.
- Even Tim Walz' National Guard chaplain calls him "cowardly." Wow!
Many a truth is said in jest,
- Sounds like something she'd say.
- One of the greatest typos of all-time
- Heh Heh
