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“History is a vast early warning system.” — Norman Cousins

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Robert Kagan’s ominous view of the Iran war –

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“There will be no return to the status quo ante, no ultimate American triumph that will undo or overcome the harm done. The Strait of Hormuz will not be ‘open,’ as it once was. With control of the strait, Iran emerges as the key player in the region and one of the key players in the world. The roles of China and Russia, as Iran’s allies, are strengthened; the role of the United States, substantially diminished. Far from demonstrating American prowess, as supporters of the war have repeatedly claimed, the conflict has revealed an America that is unreliable...

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Doc Searls has a fantastic breakdown that I agree with 100%, especially the point about skipping ad reads.

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Near the end of this Pivot podcast, starting at about the 55 minute mark, Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway give a great summary of why podcasting is “the fastest-growing ad-supported medium.” Among other things, they say “People actually listen to the ads,” and that host read-overs are very effective and remunerative (bringing much higher CPMs).

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Five additional points.

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First, you can listen on your own time. You’re free from the tyranny of “What’s on.\" This is the triumph of personal optionality...

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A post shared by Peo (@amazedbypeo)

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The NBA Draft Combine runs May 10-17 at Wintrust Arena. Three names from this year’s Final Four team are on the invite list: Keaton Wagler, Kylan Boswell, and Andrej Stojakovic.

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Wagler’s the lock. Top-10 projection, consensus All-American, Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year. He won’t have to scrimmage....

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Jeroen Sangers —

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Miss the days when we all watched the same episode and talked about it the next day. Now everyone’s at a different point in the season. That shared TV excitement is getting harder to find.

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WKRP in Cincinnati was a hit sitcom about a radio station that ran from 1978 to 1982. I watched it in syndication and thought it was great. Of course, WKRP was a fictional station, with the call letters designed to invoke the word “crap.” But WKRP in Cincinnati is fictional no more.

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The call letters WKRP...

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The first time I heard the Rocky Horror soundtrack, I was at a neighbor’s house. He had the LP from the movie and we played it like it was a normal album. We were kids. We had no idea what we were doing.

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A year or two later, the old show Night Flight ran the “Time Warp” section of the movie. Just dropped it...

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My random hot take on a Sunday trying not to doomscroll:

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Not all opinions are equal. Your “vaccine research” is not more comprehensive than immunologists that have devoted their life’s work to this. Barely literate parents are actually not as qualified as educators to teach children. I could go on and on...

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Mike Brock explaining Ben Shapiro’s approach to debate/intervews in the most articulate and enlightening way possible.

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The structure is one-way and worth naming plainly.

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You concede every factual claim your interlocutor makes. Yes, Trump is corrupt. Yes, Trump tried to overturn the election. Yes, Trump’s loyalists are unfit. Yes, the reframing of January 6 is awful. Yes, the family enrichment is unprecedented. Yes, the response to political murders is morally egregious. You concede all of it.

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You then argue that none of these concessions can justify changing your vote, because what you are voting for...

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The Minnesota Timberwolves have a couple of former Fighting Illini basketball players on their roster, Terrance Shannon, Jr. and Ayo Dosunmu. Both stepped up in the first round of the NBA playoffs to take down the Denver Nuggets.

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Last Saturday, Dosunmu scored 43 points off the bench. Thirteen of seventeen...

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Most weeks, the internet is a place that takes things from you. This week, it gave back. Hank Green pulled together every NASA photo from the Artemis II mission, all the videos posted to Instagram and YouTube, the official mission schedule, and the public API that tracks the Orion spacecraft’s location at...

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I think I have Plantar Fasciitis. My foot now aches after walking on it. It’s not painful when sitting, but it really hurts when I walk. I’ve done a bit of research to see what can be done and it looks like a massage ball and stretching it about it. I’ve taken ibuprofen, but I don’t think it really helps.

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I’l...

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“You’re looking for three things, generally, in a person,” says Buffett. “Intelligence, energy, and integrity. And if they don’t have the last one, don’t even bother with the first two. I tell them, ‘Everyone here has the intelligence and energy—you wouldn’t be here otherwise. But the integrity is up to you....

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Will is stuck in a time loop.

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At least, that’s what he thinks. His life is mundane enough that it takes him a while to notice the days repeating. So he tells Elise. She doesn’t believe him, but she helps him anyway. With her encouragement, he finds a way out.

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That’s the surface.

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Watch it again and the loop...

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After 18 months of court fights, the deal is done. The Onion has acquired Infowars. Alex Jones can cry all he wants.

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Obviously, satire and comedy won’t fix what Jones did. Nothing can. But watching the machinery that tormented the Sandy Hook families get repurposed as a joke against itself, with a judge’s...

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When you watch the official title sequence for 007 First Light, you might be fooled into thinking there’s a new Bond movie coming.

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It’s not a movie, but close enough.

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The video game features the original song “First Light,” written and composed by Lana Del Rey and David Arnold. It’s got the slow strings and...

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the two dangers of writing:\n

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no one will read it

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- Night P. Avenir

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Sean Bonner is on a tear and I’m here for it —

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I’ve been amused at the headlines over the last few days that statutory rape defender and Epstein lawyer Alan Dershowitz has left the Democrats and become Republican. First of all, because who cares? Secondly, because he’s mad that Democrats aren’t pro-Israel enough, which (unfortunately) isn’t true but also who cares? But mostly amusing because he already threw a temper tantrum and quit back in 2024. I guess it’s good for headlines or whatever though so maybe we’ll see him make the same announcement again in a few years? Turns out this is a thing, in a...

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David Graham in The Atlantic —

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In the lead-up to the war, which Trump launched without consulting Congress, making a case to the American people, or assembling allies, many of his aides believed that Trump was not taking seriously the risks and trade-offs involved … Once the war began, Trump received updates that were screened and bowdlerized for him. He has long been inattentive to briefings—early in his first term, aides realized that he liked maps and graphics and would glaze over if given much information in text—but he has reportedly been starting his day off with a sizzle reel of stunning...

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Noah Hawley in The Atlantic —

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Any asset can be acquired but nothing can ever be lost, because for soon-to-be trillionaires, no level of loss could significantly change their global standing or personal power. For them, the word failure has ceased to mean anything. This sense of invulnerability has deep psychological ramifications. If everything is free and nothing matters, then the world and other people exist only to be acted upon, if they are acknowledged at all. This is different from classic narcissism, in which a grandiose but fragile self-image can mask deep insecurity. What I’m talking about is...

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