https://contrarian.substack.com/p/we-all-need-to-take-a-troubling-new

The SEO title is completely backwards. This is an encouraging study — gun management can work in America.

https://gwynnedyer.com/2025/bottom-trawling/

“Bottom trawlers are responsible for the bulk of the damage that human beings have done to the oceans”

Much new to me here.

https://www.startribune.com/family-member-senators-wife-threw-herself-over-her-daughter-to-shield-her-from-assassins-bullets/601373242

“Hope was born with spina bifida, and her father has cited her disability as a reason he went into state politics.”

A deranged man with a gun.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06/14/no-kings-protests-anti-trump-rallies-us/

We are a broken nation. But not a broken people.

https://www.startribune.com/middle-management-employee-engagement-lead-with-values-kermit-the-frog-jim-henson/601342459

MidManagers make or break any enterprise, they are mostly invisible, and they are widely disparaged.

https://timkellogg.me/blog/2025/06/14/a2a

Does anyone out there remember TeleScript? I wonder how the agent protocols line up.

“MCP is for tools (function-like things with inputs and outputs). A2A is for when you need free-form communication. Hence why tasks look more like actors.”

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/06/12/apples-spin-on-ai-and-ipados-multitasking/

They really are lost.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/politics/trump-ice-raids-farms-hotels.html?rsrc=ss&unlocked_article_code=1.O08.1stW.HBKjkUUwLAf4&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Trump is testing how dumb the MAGA really are.

https://gwynnedyer.com/2025/geoengineering-or-bust/

America, the fallen giant, is best kept out of the discussion.

https://gwynnedyer.com/2025/where-shall-we-put-the-palestinians/

Falling into the abyss.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/science/genes-dna-microproteins.html

So much complexity. Likely key to some diseases.

https://www.bannedinyourstate.com/p/should-you-go-to-a-protest-tomorrow

N-95 mask helps a bit with tear gas. Jedeed doesn’t fuss much about phone beyond removing biometric login.

We will be at the back and will leave if there is violence.

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/social-media-destroyed-one-of-americas?publication_id=35345&post_id=165845738&isFreemail=false&r=bzxnl&triedRedirect=true

“housing crash and Great Recession, the rise of China, racial diversification, and the rise of smartphone-enabled social media”

My list: IT, globalization, rural collapse, rise of women. (I think we broke in late 90s, well before his 2010 date.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/politics/army-parade-trump.html

Excellent article on why the US Army is in a slow motion crisis.

Also, the M1 is obsolete now.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-12-2025

According to Noem. No Kings march Sat June 14.

Raskin: “We have no kings here, we have no queens here, we have no emperors, we have no dictators, we have no despots, and we have no serfs and no slaves and no subjects, and none of us is a subject to Donald Trump. None of us is a subject to Mike Johnson.”

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/a-showdown-made-in-heaven

“Trump watches TV news throughout much of the day and night. It is the way he has lived for most of his life. His sense of reality is formed by what he sees and hears on the TV screen.”

https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/is-tulsi-gabbard-okay

The GOP Senate is perhaps the worst of the GOP. They are not as stupid as the GOP Reps, that makes them more explicitly evil.

https://thenewstack.io/what-you-need-to-know-about-apples-new-container-framework/

Hypervisor. This sounds not terrible.

https://www.niskanencenter.org/virtual-event-modernizing-municipal-code-with-technology-how-the-city-of-san-francisco-used-ai-to-cut-red-tape/

AN interesting example; basically enhanced semantic search. Not a big AI tech challenge, but does a useful thing that is not cost-efficient without AI.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-civil-war

If we get to rebuild we need to understand why America derailed after 1995.

https://www.startribune.com/foundation-spread-voter-registration-applications-with-fake-ids-across-minnesota-charges-say/601371558

Two have plead guilty but nobody’s talking.

https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/10/ios-26-apple-wallet-digital-id-passport-support/

“According to Apple’s website, you’ll be able to use it at TSA checkpoints, online, and in person.”

No need to carry your wallet/state ID when you go to a bar. This is a big leap and bypasses the complexity of state ID support. As is typical of Apple the important updates are done quietly, the liquid glass stuff is BS to cover their AI failure.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-10-2025

Even though it’s no longer news, Putin’s power over the GOP remains astounding. He used his billions to completely corrupt the party.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/10/rfk-smoking-maha-tobacco-cigarettes-00394863

RFK appears to use nicotine replacement products when stressed. Given his psychiatric and substance history it would be extraordinary if he was not a heavy smoker in the past, I suspect he’s a closeted smoker now.

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/if-you-lie-with-doge-you-get-fleeced

via Bannon. So 50/50 at best unless someone talks.

“America will spend years paying the price for Musk’s fraudulence.” If we are very lucky.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/opinion/trump-los-angeles-ice-strongman.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OE8.P2EY.Dbf-2enjQZo4&smid=nytcore-android-share

He is who he always was and he was very transparent about his goals. The rot is in us, the American people. And, of course, in the legacy media.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/well/mind/executive-function-tips.html

Pretty good really.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/business/media/hbo-max-warner-bros-discovery.html

Why they merged then split. Daytime TV fair doesn’t work for a streaming audience.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/novo-nordisk-s-canadian-mistake

Semaglutide goes generic in Canada. Maybe invasion delayed while Canada supplies US market?

https://www.dot.state.mn.us/roundabouts/safety.html

No wonder they are popular. Crashes tend to be low consequences vs t-bone of running an intersection.

https://www.startribune.com/trump-races-to-fix-a-big-mistake-doge-fired-too-many-people/601368798

Musk takes the blame. Fed workers needed big raises before DOGE, raises will need to be bigger now.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/08/apple-research-lrms

Encouraging sign that we have hit a hard AI limit for at least a few years. The longer the better.

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-golden-age-of-resignations

People with courage and convictions.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-7-2025

An antidote to MAGA lies.

HCR has very much seized her moment. Historians arise.

https://www.twincities.com/2025/06/08/real-world-economics-bonds-part-2-how-this-affects-us/

A very clear explanation that includes appropriate caveats. The balance of debt vs inflation seems inherently unpredictable.

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/common-misconceptions-about-covid

I liked this update.

“many of the guidelines … simply hygiene theater”

https://cepr.net/publications/saving-journalism-will-require-some-new-thinking/

Someone agrees with me.

“every adult in the country would have the right to give $100, regardless of whether they owed taxes or not”

https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-curious-incident-of-the-trade

Trade negotiator comments are enlightening.

https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/corruption-in-plain-sight-is-still

Our culture is broken. It isn’t just legacy media.

https://www.bannedinyourstate.com/p/the-great-maga-crack-up

This is all you need. Read and feel better.

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2025/06/03/2155

Apple feels like America. The numbers seem good but it is broken inside. Apple feels know it is broken, eventually investors will figure it out.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/world/asia/vietnam-two-child-policy.html

That demographic transition, driven by female education and falling infant mortality, is as close to a law of physics that sociology has.

It cannot be stopped. Revealed preference applies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/world/canada/trump-canada-province-trade-beer.html

Canada, where I grew up, is weirder than most understand. The provinces behave more or less like loosely federated nations.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-3-2025

There is a lot of wiggle room in the word “notify”.

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/service-costs-arent-exploding-anymore

Not what I expected. This essay deserves a discussion.

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-cognitive-decline-cover-up

A cover-up led by the NYT.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/06/03/sky-preview/

Time to relaunch Claris to hold everything not OS.

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/how-chinese-drones-could-defeat-america

The NYT devoted a lot of effort to destroy Joe Biden and minimize his achievements and goals.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/forensic-genetic-geneology-dna-babies.html

Babies stillborn or left to die by mothers later identified through DNA tracing.

“In England, Canada … infanticide is a separate crime from murder”

https://www.citationneeded.news/openai-incel-chatbot-subhuman-men/

We need journalists trained in anthropology to explain our world. I’m really curious about the female side of this ideology — I suspect they do exist. I’d also like to learn about the surgeons that do cosmetic orthognathic reconstructions (the real deal is $$$$ and technically hard). Fascinating but disturbing tribe.

Terms I learned of: hardmaxxing (surgery), softmaxxing (gym), mogging (emulating arrogance), mewing (it’s funny, not scary).