Partly, I like the wildly inaccurate depiction of Rockville, Maryland

After not paying any attention to REM for years, I've recently had "Don't Go Back to Rockville" and "Orange Crush" on heavy rotation. Some great stuff in their catalog.

Americans will lose an average of 400 pounds each?

See, this is the problem with cutting the liberal arts. No one appreciates the beauty of the prompt for its own sake.

Are tweeps on Bluesky ... bleeps?

This by Quinn Slobodian has been on my reading list. Seems relevant?

I can imagine if that Trump were to remember just one phrase from a constitutional law professor, it would be "citizenship is Allegiance-for-Protection" -- and he could easily take it even beyond its immediate, horrifying, implications for the children of immigrants.

But perhaps they've been playing a different game. Trump has been a Gemeinschaft patriarch/mob boss his whole life; Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, etc. are in this regard toddlers.

You'd expect that to claw their way up corporate hierarchies (including as VC-funded founders), they'd have developed their own hypersensitivities to the intentions behind perceived slights and abilities to reward friends and punish enemies.

Late to the party, but I think of this one from time to time. www.theonion.com/affluent-whi...