The explainer claims limited mental health and easy gun access.
I disagree. Guns are everywhere now. And mental health interventions aren’t available to most in cities and are of uncertain efficacy for suicide prevention (primarily an impulsive act).
This is a blaring red howling siren signal that rural America is in longterm existential crisis.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/health/falls-deaths-elderly-drugs.html
“prescriptions for some fall-related drugs have already declined or hit plateaus, even as death rates because of falls have risen”
I doubt it’s only, or even primarily, the meds. I suspect it’s also lack of walking, inequality, and poor healthcare. We are more feeble.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijd.17567
Open access and probably unreviewed but there’s really not much out there – which is what they concluded. It is biologically plausible that susceptible men (including trans-men) will have accelerated hair loss with testosterone supplementation.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-this-the-hidden-part-of-the-trump-epstein-drama
“Yeah I knew he was a big time pedophile and we were big pals and partied together all the time and I was fine with it. But then he tried to expose my money laundering scheme so I called my friends at the FBI.”
“I think this has been known as a rumor at least for some time.”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-4-2025-thursday
“Under Governor Robert “Fighting Bob” La Follette, Wisconsin led the way, bringing together researchers, lawmakers, and state officials to craft policies that would end corruption, promote education and social welfare, and create a strong and fair economy.”
Governor of WI 1901 to 1906.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-countering-misuse-aug-2025
Quite readable and not surprising. Hospitals are going to be increasingly shut for recovery.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/generative-ai-as-a-cybercrime-assistant.html
North Korean economy likely to grow.
https://eclecticlight.co/2025/09/04/quirks-of-spotlight-local-search/
“Once Spotlight has indexed objects in images discovered by mediaanalysisd, moving that file to a different folder breaks that association immediately,”
Files and paths rather than inodes. So much broken corporate flail
https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-rfk-jr-seeks-to-rush-7-new
RFK ACIP minions:
Hilary Blackburn
Joseph Fraiman
John Gaitanis
Evelyn Griffin
Kirk Milhoan
Raymond Pollak
Catherine Stein
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/09/03/ios-26-developer-beta-9/
Maybe 26.2 will be usable on iPhone? (I hope to skip macOS 26 entirely.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/us/western-health-alliance.html
Next will be food and pharma safety.
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/aug/29/best-bike-locks-us?CMP=us_bsky#Echobox=1756486219-1
Best was Litelock X1 at $190…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/01/buford-pusser-wife-murder-walking-tall/
Sounds like someone talked – and the 1967 forensics were pretty bad. He tried to kill himself after the murder but survived.
Local museum future limited.
https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/donald-trumps-biggest-dumbest-personalist
If Trump resolves India-China clashes he could get two prizes. (One for NK in T1)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-29-2025
American 2.0 is dead.
https://www.twincities.com/2025/08/31/real-world-economics-federal-reserve-follies-continue/
The MAGA are not sane.
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/30/nx-s1-5522916/scottish-brothers-rowing-pacific-ocean-record
In 2014 Russian maniac set solo record.
There is no fix. Declining birth rates meets exodus of young women meets unsustainable economics.
A big part of why we have both MAGA and idiocracy.
https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/neurosymbolic-ainot-with-a-bang-but
A fair seeming review by a skeptic of connectionist approaches with references to texts from the linguistics-conceptual domain. He acknowledges recent models have exceeded predicted limits.
https://gizmodo.com/the-cdc-implosion-continues-as-staff-plan-walkout-2000649819
Let the MAGA inherit the ruins. We can call it the Cassidy Cowardice Center now.
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/rfk-jr-must-go-and-he-s-not-only-one
Heroes of the CDC. Bill Cassidy should be mailed a “white feather of cowardice”.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-arent-markets-freaking-out
K has fallen for “rational markets” several times. It’s a hard habit to break.
Buffett understands.
https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/minnesota-has-permissive-gun-laws
The GOP has control of government and removed controls we used to have. Dems have not undone this work, popular support for reform has been weak.
Real reform will be a constitutional amendment or expanding SCOTUS.
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/25/agentic-browser-security/
LLMs are built to obey.
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/08/26/the-trash-command/
Faster than rm
https://newrepublic.com/article/199612/furious-trump-firing-fed-lisa-cook-may-backfire
Publish their names and deeds.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-25-2025
A warning to the confederate states: “Any action undercutting that and violating the sacred sovereignty of our state to cater to the ego of a dictator will be responded to.”
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/08/encryption-backdoor-in-military-police-radios.html
Whoever made them was working for a government. Probably American.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/crypto-wants-to-bring-you-down-with
Stablecoin bank runs: “selling pressure could cause a collapse in Treasury bill prices, also bringing down other stablecoin issuers.”
Which would mean a bailout.
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-tips-into-fascism-f51000e08e03254d
And the NYT saw no evil.
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/covid-19-summer-wave-flying-flesh
Public health still survives.
https://streets.mn/2025/08/08/respect-the-friend-density-matrix/
In Minneapolis our bicycle routes determine our homes.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-was-fed-sloppy-code-it-turned-into-something-evil-20250813/
I suspect something like this happens to many humans. The problem shows when “fine tuning” a built model, but once models have memory and learning they may turn nasty abruptly. (Or be able to tell they are changing?)
“AI does seem to separate good things from bad. It just doesn’t seem to have a preference.”
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-with-phillips-obrien
“I just don’t think the Europeans have the capacity now to think for themselves.”
Trump allying with Putin, Ukraine developing new weapons, fly-by-wire drones to avoid countermeasures. As America self-destructs Ukraine likely to strike Russian infrastructure.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-23-2025
Superb reference. A longer essay would include how movement conservatives allied with anti-science religious fundamentalists. The role of religious belief is important in American fascism.
https://www.thenerdreich.com/is-peter-thiel-the-antichrist-nyt-didnt-think-to-ask/
They are all doing too many psychedelics.
https://tidbits.com/2025/08/22/applecare-one-stumbles-over-multiple-macos-user-accounts/
Maybe Apple needs a reboot?
“In China, it is common for domestic reporters to receive red envelopes with cash … companies there know not to give money to international reporters.”
https://www.startribune.com/george-floyd-square-chicago-avenue-closure-pedestrian-plaza/601457413
I visited it recently. It is much smaller than I expected; there is a very fine coffee shop across from what is now a tourist attraction.
There is no rush to do anything. Chicago traffic is slower now which makes it a good bike avenue. I suspect status quo indefinitely.
https://51st.news/national-guard-dc-faq/
The guardsman have jobs, family, school. They are not full-time military. They don’t do arrests and policing. They will get very bored and want to go home.
https://www.startribune.com/mn-submerged-vehicle-search-sartell-missing-man/601457641
Interesting view into police work. I live near that boat launch.
https://thenewstack.io/google-says-the-median-gemini-prompt-uses-5-drops-of-water/
“A year ago, … energy usage was … 33x higher”
Likely to fall farther.
https://projects.propublica.org/federal-health-worker-cuts-rfk-trump-administration/
America has a stupidity addiction.
” … particular disdain for law firms that he said had been willing to “set aside the law” … because they might lose a few clients and might not be able to finish that kitchen rehab at their Hampton house.”
Also true …
“Obama has spent much of his post-presidential life producing movies, documentaries and podcasts while building a beachfront compound in Hawaii and playing golf on Martha’s Vineyard.”
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-pursuit-of-life-where-it-seems-unimaginable-20250820/
Microbes that breathe iron.
Also, I bet she does CrossFit.
https://www.startribune.com/amy-klobuchar-what-i-didnt-say-about-sydney-sweeney/601458280
“X refused to take it down or label it”
The continued popularity of X Is a very grim sign for America.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/08/20/claim-chowder-amodei
Or Earth may be sterilized by a gamma ray burst.
https://eclecticlight.co/2025/08/14/inside-pdf-annotations/
I wish EPUB had been more successful.