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This long interview with Sharon Stone is extremely intense. www.theguardian.com/lifeandst…
Today’s computer science grads face more than double the unemployment rate of art history majors. nextdraft.com/archives/…
“ … Trump is deploying troops against an imaginary enemy in DC before heading to Alaska to surrender to a real one.” nextdraft.com/archives/…
How big trucks and SUVs gobbled up the entire auto industry. ‘Car bloat’ is what you get when companies prioritize profits over safety. www.theverge.com/the-stepb…
Inside America’s Quiet Safety Revolution: How Local Leaders Are Cutting Crime Without More Cops www.forbes.com/sites/ric…
Is 40’s the new 60’s? 40-year-old man describes how ageism is killing his job search www.financialexpress.com/trending/…
AOL is discontinuing dial-up internet service after 34 years. Though AOL says the number of dial-up subscribers it has is in the thousands, the US government estimates that about 265,000 people still depend on dial-up Internet. I am more surprised to learn AOL is still around than I am to learn dial up is still around. www.techspot.com/news/1090…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth resposted a video of a self-described Christian nationalist pastor whose church doesn’t believe women should be allowed to vote. “Doug Wilson, senior pastor of Christ Church in Idaho, said during the interview with CNN that, ‘Women are the kind of people that people come out of.’ … In the CNN interview, Wilson also defended previous comments where he had said there was mutual affection between slaves and their masters. He also said that sodomy should be recriminalized….. In his repost of the interview on the platform X, Hegseth added, ‘All of Christ for All of Life.’….
“Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell told NPR in an emailed statement on Saturday that Hegseth is a ‘proud member of a church affiliated with the Congregation of Reformed Evangelical Churches,’ which was founded by Wilson.”
Dave Pell: “As crazy as you think these guys are, they’re crazier.”
A unvaccinated teen-ager brought 2025’s first case of measles to San Diego County. He may have exposed others in Scripps Clinic Torrey Pines Urgent Care and Rady Children’s Emergency Department. timesofsandiego.com/health/20…
The A.O.C. Deepfake Was Terrible. The Proposed Solution Is Delusional. By Zeynep Tufekci. Some clown distributed a deepfake video of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denouncing the Sydney Sweeney jeans ad as racist. Andrew Cuomo denounced AOC. But it never happened. AOC never said it. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/1…
Trump has said America was at its richest 1870-1913, a time when the average life expectancy was about 48 and many children died before their fifth birthday. Trump wants to go back to that. By Molly Jong-Fast. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/1…
ICE arrested a mother outside a Chula Vista, San Diego, elementary school for overstaying her visa. They arrested Kyungjin Yu, an immigrant from South Korea, as students were arriving for class. www.kpbs.org/news/bord…
Our two elderly cats, who previously hated each other and couldn’t stand to be in the same room, now lay companionably next to each other on the bed or on the floor.
They seem to have grown fond of each other. For now. It may be leading to a whole “whatever happened to baby Jane” situation.
Also, they were both terribly afraid of the dog, and kept to the back of the house, but now they are conscious of which room the dog is in, and will roam freely around the other rooms.
Seriously, I am confused by these changes. If they were acting badly, I would attribute it to feline dementia, but what accounts for this sudden outburst of more well adjusted behavior?
“One way to think about AI’s unwelcome intrusion into our lives can be summed up with Goodhart’s Law: ‘When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.’” — Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr pluralistic.net/2025/08/1…
Mitchellaneous Vol. CIX: Thirteen things I saw on the Internet
Royal Guard is holding his smile
Russian opera singer Anna de Belocca, late 19th century. “Her dress and hair are so beautiful.”
