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.
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).
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/taurine-revisited
Lots of interesting taurine physiology.
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/covid-summer-and-confusion-measles
I read this as no major change in ability to get vaccine but uncertain insurance coverage where “shared decision making”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/business/ai-data-centers-private-equity.html
Reminds me of “dark fiber”. Overbuilt during .com bubble. I think much was used before it was technically obsolete.
Big tech usually leases rather than owns, not clear who Blackstone will sell them to.
https://www.persuasion.community/p/mexico-and-the-road-us-democrats
MAGA without the tax cuts? He doesn’t talk about corruption and its consequences. It is not a grim essay.
The key point is her popularity, similar to Putin’s numbers.
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-recent-history-of-ai-in-32-otters
I learned things. Good explainer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/business/gen-z-bar-etiquette.html
I never liked tabs. It’s not a Gen Z thing really.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/world/canada/canada-hudsons-bay-stores-closing.html
I remember their glory days.
https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/go-the-fk-to-therapy
“I have never met anyone more in need of therapy in their life …
… You killed an estimated 300,000 people, mostly children, in your first month working for the federal government”
I suspect his last psychiatrist told him he has a schizoaffective disorder and recommended antipsychotics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/us/politics/federal-workers-musk-doge.html
The salaries of fed workers are going to have to rise quite a bit. It was already very hard to hire due to low compensation, now there’s no trust.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html
“Some current and former Palantir employees have been unnerved by the work.”
Palantir is high grade evil. This sounds similar to China’s social credit database.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/opinion/trump-vance-morality.html
Of all the weird things in my recent life, one of the weirdest was developing a modicum of respect for David Brooks. I didn’t give enough credit to his chronic concerns about community and values (social capital). He was right, I was wrong.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/villainy-2
Zach W Classic.
Allegedly he actually go tested. I find that hard to believe. Lots of psychedelics and boatloads of ketamine
“He has denounced traditional therapy and antidepressants.”
He and RFK likely bond over there Scientology-like psych hatred.
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/new-route-asthma-treatment-through-liver-all-places
Liver screens out problematic cells. In mice but encouraging. Fixing asthma would be cool.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/taco-trade
It’s probably over as an investment strategy, but the TACO memes do enrage Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/science/dwarf-planet-nine-discovery.html
Not every day we add a planet to the solar system. Even a dwarf planet.
“Pluto, Eris, the large asteroid Ceres … beyond Neptune, Haumea and Makemake” and probably 100 more.
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-age-of-twitter-is-finally-ending
“many of the smartest users have left the platform, so that replies are dominated by activists, trolls, and bored people tossing off rote statements”
More concrete data than I usually see. I wonder if Smith is going to break with Musk. If Noah is abandoning X it’s officially dead.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/business/stock-market-trump-tariffs.html
Buy on the bad news, sell after the chicken squawks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/haiti-erik-prince-blackwater-gangs.html
“expected to send up to 150 mercenaries to Haiti over the summer.”
“U.N. officials have warned that the capital is in danger of falling under complete criminal control.”
Biden / UN effort failed. So now it’s foreign mercenaries. Prince is said a bad name in the mercenary industry.
https://thenewstack.io/mcp-is-rss-for-ai-more-use-cases-for-model-context-protocol/
I am delighted Jon is writing on this topic. Deserves carefully study
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/us/politics/homelessness-baby-boomers.html
“he reveled in sports and neighborhood friends but mostly felt lost in class.”
“Analyzing census data at 10-year intervals, he found that throughout their lives late baby boomers had been at least 1.5 times as likely to become homeless as people born roughly a decade later.”
As parents of two dependent adults we think of this every day. Our estate planning is the most complex thing we have ever attempted — and we have loads of degrees and expertise and a reasonable estate. Most such dependents live with parents until the parents die.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/business/driverless-semi-trucks-aurora-innovation.html
It’s unclear from article what the remote control vs autonomous balance is. They were expected 5-10y ago. Texas is probably best geography.