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“A lot of things, a lot of very cruel things, have got to happen to a fool before his mind can change its thoughts.” - Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Interesting sentence in The Dig, the newsletter written by @fmckenna.bsky.social that hit my inbox today: "Once SpaceX acquires Tesla, any details that may answer lingering questions about accounting manipulation and alleged fraud will be lost forever."

Watching Racing Louisville play the Denver Summit I’m reminded that Louisville is not a safe place for professional athletes. bit.ly/4kkWVKy

Sounds like Shaun Maguire and Sequoia Capital are backing a puppy mill.

They know the name sounds like an ethnic slur, right? bit.ly/4BCA0kq

I’m looking for a home stereo consultant. I want to pay for advice, not installation. I’m not looking for someone to sell me equipment. Rather, I want someone who can help me evaluate my current setup and help me choose which components to keep or replace. Do such people exist?

Where is Bob Kraft? bit.ly/4eCIhuv

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

Newsletter: A Trump crypto adviser’s firm took millions from Tether while he shaped stablecoin rules in their favor, a Senate probe targets Commerce Secretary Lutnick’s not-so-former firm, and crypto’s biggest super PAC plays it safe. www.citationneeded.news/issue-111/

Definitely DOJ material.

Some restaurants require a credit card hold so they can charge you should you not show up. Should this be reciprocal? If the restaurant decides to cancel a confirmed reservation, leaving you scrambling for somewhere to eat, should the amount of the hold be credited to your card?

It's no longer the party of Lincoln. It's now fully the party of Hastert and Trump. bit.ly/4APZESe

Lisa Broderick says AI agents don’t go rogue on their own. They get human-authored software instructions from someone. It’s time corporate liability caught up. bit.ly/4yuWpxP

Good week to call for greater use of the death penalty.

Hard to understand why would Sophia Wilson pull a @bostonlegacyfc.com player down by the hair when she was off the ball.

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I guess we know now why that guy in the song who chose Texas didn’t want to live in Tennessee.

So for the safety of all involved, it seems that an airline's passengers should have unimpeded access to the plane's cockpit.

I wait all night for images to return to Bluesky only for this to be the first thing I see?

It’s worth recalling that earlier this year Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff hit one student with his car and was accused of running over a recent graduate's foot. Moments earlier he said the university has the responsibility to ensure everyone in the community is protected. bit.ly/4dhv4H7

The way I'm reading this is that Larry Ellison can't be relied on to pay his bills: bit.ly/4iN3ogM

I was going to say I haven’t heard the song either but it’s nicely crafted. The Rolling Stone article, though, wasn’t well reasoned. Further, since Tennessee was also south of the Mason-Dixon Line, I don’t understand why he couldn’t be comfortable there, too.

reminder to turn off exterior lights and draw curtains and blinds to block interior light! the children of the sky need to be able to see the stars to navigate safely :)

Every time I watch Racing Louisville play soccer I remember that this is a city in which a young woman can go home, fall asleep, and then be shot to death in her own bed.

But can they afford them? bloom.bg/3UWXsrK

A fin whale was found dead on the bow of a cruise ship in Sitka on Thursday, the second time this summer that one of the endangered whales has met such a fate coming into an Alaska port. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

A friend of mine attended business school with Kraft. He says none of their classmates liked Kraft because they considered him untrustworthy, but that everyone thought Myra was lovely.

He needs that financial cushion because he’s going to be unemployed soon.

Got burning questions about Episode 51: The House of Orleans? Come join me Thursday at 6 p.m. Central Time (7 ET / 11 UTC) for a live aftershow. I'll take questions about the episode, my research process, anecdotes that didn't make the script, and more. (No need to be a Patreon backer to join!)

There’s always a moron like Deborah Ann who thinks cyclists don’t also own cars.

A woman working in the pharmacy at CVS on Boylston Street in MA told me today that Medicare doesn’t cover the new COVID-19 vaccine.

There's a lot we don't know about Esther González's transfer saga, but the uncomfortable questions it raises say a lot about the state of women's soccer, anyway: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Ironic, not at all. Moronic, absolutely.

HOMAN: You can't give me one example of someone handing me $50,000 in a sack. REPORTER: I gave you an example of someone handing you $50,000 in a bag. HOMAN: Is that a sack?

Backfired? That was the objective.

Other than a few friends, the only thing I miss about the other place is the fintech content. So here's my contribution. bit.ly/4xJoj8A

The owner of a bar, having been jilted by a former girlfriend, simply doesn’t want to get involved.

I do hope the objective is to create a "cohesive, organized, vibrant arts and media ecosystem" that benefits the students and the city more broadly. But they'll have to prove it. After the last few years, I'm unwilling to give Emerson College's leadership the benefit of the doubt. bit.ly/4wVkwEm

Remember when "Higher Standards" was BofA's tagline? bit.ly/4zKFuIP

“Birds of a Feather” is a song written by Carole Pope & Kevan Staples recorded by Tim Curry. (Pope did not like his version.)

With the U.S. Open underway in New York, who will be responsible for keeping James Blake safe?

@kanopy.com Why is Kanopy not working tonight?

This woman was an American hero, as opposed to Tipper Gore who was a traitor to our nation's ideals. bit.ly/4zIsdk6

We're all going to be able to use these facilities, right? bit.ly/4xLyx8m

Surely Cody will be reimbursing Marion’s taxpayers. bit.ly/4qCeEP7

Amazon, which will soon be responsible for the single largest source of pollution in America, has update its Conditions of Use and Terms & Conditions to require (i) a mandatory pre-arbitration dispute resolution procedure, and (ii) an arbitration agreement and class action waiver.

The magazine's newsletter bursts forth ... in my column, I note a little of what's missing in the Boston Globe's arts coverage. artsfuse.substack.com/p/as-the-glo...

Reposting. Hoping this is seen by someone who knows.

Last year, I purchased an item manufactured in Europe. The middleman who imported it charged me separately for the tariff. (Though as a country we were assured tariffs didn't work that way.) We now know the tariffs were illegal. Does the middleman owe me a tariff refund?

Edgartown continues efforts to hold John and Amanda Waldron accountable for their environmental crimes: bit.ly/3TsbhO9 John Waldron is President and COO of Goldman Sachs.

With Biddeford, Maine in the news, it's worth recalling this about the town: bit.ly/4pqy2O6