My two favs were Eddington and Sirat

This war makes it easier to see just how much an air bombing campaign has in common with posting photos of atrocities online. Both assume someone else will "do something."
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a man in a suit and tie holds an american flag in his hands ALT: a man in a suit and tie holds an american flag in his hands

Good morning!

Since Trump was re-elected, Forbes estimates—

💰His net worth is up $2 billion, to $6.3 billion

💰Eric’s is up 10x, to $400 million

💰Don Jr.’s is up 6x, to $300 million

💰19-year-old Barron is worth $150 million

And Jared became a billionaire last year.

Have a great day!

What is it good for?

KILMEADE: Is it true you're telling your whole cabinet to wear the same shoes, these Florsheim shoes?

TRUMP: When they tell me they have a problem, I say, 'let me get you a pair of shoes.' It seems to work out well. Now they look all spiffy & nice. I never liked cabinet members walking in sneakers.

camps

when they put out the complete Farside in paperback they went with three volumes, as a nod to the success of the complete CH collection. But I guess they still are not competing. The hardcover 2 volume will provide you with endless fun but it is a beast.

Al would most definitely have known about the Writers Workshop in 1967!

!!! I am still in the "is this the correct filter" stage

Review: How ‘Data’ Channels the Shock of Right Now

I saw a play last night www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/t... it was pretty on point for the moment, but it also got me to realize we are in tech's 'post ping pong table' age. Curious when that begins? I would say 2013-14? earlier? later?

Claude cleared it all up

This is a real screenshot:

this one is pretty much just as bad though

I can't be the only person enjoying all this Abundance™

crashing the economy is a form of mowing the grass

Indeed. When things go bad, who will the MAGA cult blame? So many bad actors locked and loaded and ready to execute on this 'framing.'

And we are still bragging about knocking out command and control!

hahaha I checked back in yesterday too - and I marveled at all the supposedly serious people saying "@grok is this true?" over and over again. What madness!

Met a guy at a bar recently who is running an "AI automated thought leadership" venture for busy Tech execs who need to regularly sound off on LinkedIn.

WAR IS NOT PEACE
WAR WILL NEVER BE PEACE

Did a lot of work work this week and I would hate for it all to have been in vain and then go up in End Of The World smoke!

This is why our 10 year old is not getting a phone!

Bill Callahan Laughs at Death Inspired by a brush with mortality—and featuring an encounter with Lou Reed at the gates of Heaven—his new album My Days of 58 is a midlife reckoning with fatherhood, grief, and his calling as a songw...

yes the bombing is going to start soon BUT there is a new Bill Callahan record out today! pitchfork.com/thepitch/bil...

nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/defaul...

There is always more to obliterate!

Cover of The Lancet:

@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

article feels like preamble to Butler's Parable of the Sower