David Wunderlich

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

There is someone in this NEX food court wearing a Space Force uniform. I fell like I just saw a leprechaun

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The Florida Platinum Football Box:

We made sure to honor the ‘Fun ’N’ Gun Gators’ of the 1990s

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Also you’re not imagining that Halloween decor is getting obscenely early. Bath & Body Works is celebrating “hot ghoul summer”.

Stopped in Sephora to get something for my wife today and the payment terminals said they take WeChat, AliPay, AfterPay, and some other BNPL (I think Klarna?).

Whew. That’s… a lot. Do all Sephoras take Chinese superapp payments for just Honolulu?

Got ‘em

a fun game to play with BLS numbers is to go “that’s stupid, why do they do it that way” and then go find the paper explaining why they do it that way to see if you still think it’s stupid, and if you do, you win

I am like 0 for 19 lifetime at this game

Came to my attention recently that The Monorail Society exists, works to promote monorails, and is still active www.monorails.org

Absolutely. And the hardest thing to get these guys to understand is how off-putting trying to be an alpha is. Just be yourself! Being authentic and genuine is way more appealing than some act

If you don’t need to be told that being nice is a good thing, then you’re not the audience for that piece. And if you don’t think anyone needs to be taught that, then you’re out of touch with that target audience

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"

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She has two big problems to solve: answer why she should be picked this time when she lost last time, and do it without sounding like she’s throwing Biden under the bus—even though several of her biggest weaknesses were his fault. That’ll take time, and running for CA governor will distract from it.

Putting with a velociraptor named Clever Girl

(No one cares, but I thought Harris was much stronger in 2024 than in 2020. In ‘20 she was perpetually following, taking others’ ideas and adding her own spin to them that inevitably made them worse. In ‘24, she had grown a lot as a candidate and she could be formidable in ‘28 with more growth.)

It could be taken at face value. To me it sounded (if you listen to the delivery and not just read the quote) like laying the groundwork for a messaging campaign for a 2028 run: the system is broken so I had to stand aside for a while and listen so I can change the system as your next President, etc

Dudes rock.

Yes but that wasn’t based on someone he knew or a real person

He loves to put his name on stuff, and here’s his chance to do that on an important, historic building that’ll never be torn down

He wants to put a gaudy event room on the back of the White House so that the list of famous locales in the building — West Wing, Oval Office, Lincoln Bedroom, situation room, etc. — will include the Trump Ballroom.

(People are going to do this with LLMs, make a fake AI girlfriend intentionally like someone they’ve seen, met, or known. Probably already have.)

I grew up in central Pennsylvania coal country in the 1970s and 80s and I remember how my small town had more than one oxygen supply store because so many of my schoolmates’ grandpas were slowly dying in their living rooms from black lung.

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I don’t know why this is getting passed around, it’s from February 2024

We were all robbed

A rooster in the grass on the side of the road next to a concrete gutter

Sandstorm, but on a ukulele

If Dennis Dixon doesn’t get hurt, he wins the 2007 Heisman and Oregon wins the national title over Ohio State in the BCSCG

Indeed. Insiders supporting the insider is the normal and expected result

He lumps 2024 in too, but A) no one notable challenged Biden in primary season, because almost no one ever does with a sitting POTUS and no one wanted to jeopardize their ‘28 chances, B) once Biden dropped out it was too late to reasonably go with anyone but the VP, & C) Harris consolidated support