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📌 alternatives to Spotify (thanks!)

Plume app’s air quality reading that’s higher (131 AQI) than Apple’s.

This is from Plume, same timeframe, so now I’m just confused. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Will the tariff to punish Canada for not doing a good job fighting wildfires come before or after eliminating the EPA?

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Omg no.

Trump administration is launching a new private health tracking system with Big Tech's help The initiative will focus on diabetes and weight management, conversational artificial intelligence that helps patients, and digital tools such as QR codes and apps that register patients for check-in...

It’s just the beginning. They say it’ll be our choice to opt in. Just like it’s our ‘choice’ to opt in on tracking cookies. (If we don’t, we literally can’t use the internet, but hey, it’s a choice!)

Great article thanks.

History of Rock 'n' Roll Music, back when John Mellencamp was still boycotting it.

Yippee!!!

I haven’t seen the South Park episode, but the “wow, bold!” coverage feels off. The show AND Paramount got exactly what they need. Everyone wants to watch it. A marketing win-win is just that, not courage.

The foresight of Carl Sagan was and remains stunning. SOS to the timelines where foresight and empathy win.

If you can, will you post the answer if you find out?

Whatever happened to Eric Holder taking on gerrymandering as his post-government advocacy? Is anyone in the US having success with advocacy work on this? I should be more cynical, but blatant gerrymandering will never cease to blow my mind.

You two just stumbled onto a great name for an AI counter-program. An ad blocker for AI.

If tech companies put AI everywhere all at once, the clock ticks faster toward it feeling like a natural part of everyday life. People not using it become the Luddites, the joke. It’s a key reason for corporate competitors to do this jointly and rapidly.

I think one of the many simple reasons tech companies are mass-imposing AI is they’ve studied how quickly humanity can normalize new things. TVs were introduced amid corporate fanfare BUT people had cultural concerns. How long did it take before it’d be weird NOT to watch and buy TVs? Cell phones?

Ooohhhhh yes. Thank you for that callback moment of zen.

Surely the Smurfs.

Yes, thank you! Bad signage is one of my lifelong pet peeves. You have ONE JOB!

Ohhhh right! Thanks for mentioning that. Better to wait until the Yachters sail away. It’s there thru October (when they’ll add a giant ant and wolf as a farewell).

Pardon my geekdom.

Nice! Going to that this weekend.

As a non-Brit watching this play out from afar, drip by drip, I’ve been trying to understand WHY. Why did an incoming Labor leader 1) target disability benefits at all, and 2) not realize how damaging that would be politically? It seems like a weird combination of callousness and dumbness.

From a 20-something friend there: “I would start in germantown and eat somewhere like rolf & daughters or the optimist, then grab a drink at a nicer bar in Germantown and then if you really want to see live music head to broadway.” (No ‘nicer bar’ specifics yet.)

Thanks for the heads up!

Similarly — dunno if it’ll be 1% or more — but the area where I most leave the door open is the advancement of medical diagnostics. Could be a game changer for a lot of us.

Can extend #3 to hunters and guns.

Thanks for tracking on this.

I lived there then. The populace behaved as normal. Fun was had. Rarely were we hiding indoors terrified.

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📌 gabapentin and memory (thanks for posting this)