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How America Broke Its Own Military

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In many ways, the military is a reflection of the society from which it is drawn, and the changes in the composition of the US military and its regulations over this period reflected a country in political, cultural, and economic reverse gear. As America became increasingly bigoted and inward-looking, so radicalism in the US military increased. As young people became ever fatter, so too did the soldiers. As the criminal justice system locked more and more people up, so the military had to increase the numbers of felons it allowed in. ‘Today’s young men and women are...

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Messi notwithstanding, this is just terrible.

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From The Athletic:

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Argentina standing with their backs to the presentation as Spain players go up to receive their medals.

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More from Darron Richman on The Athletic:

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… Argentina shamed themselves from beginning to end and even beyond the final whistle. They were an embarrassment.

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Oh, and this is nice too. Post-match.

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Leandro Paredes, who pushed the Barcelona defender [Eric Garcia] in the throat.

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The Balloon We Keep Inflating

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We didn’t solve mortality. We just found more efficient ways to postpone the correction\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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Completamente de acuerdo, nunca he podido escuchar un audiolibro y sentir que es un substituto digno del texto:

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Big corporations want to grab your attention by trying to market audiobooks as books for busy people, but don’t fall for the trap. A book is just boring black text on a white page because that’s how it’s meant to be consumed, and it requires your entire attention. Listening to audio while cooking or cleaning or whatever you do is not the same thing; you are not 100% concentrated on the content. Also, reading is faster than listening, so use your time wisely.

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How to read more books

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Jean-Paul Sartre demonstrating he knows his audience:

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But since the idea…is still repugnant to many French readers, we shall resort to a subterfuge, that is, to a method somewhat more complex.

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Super-surprised it’s taken so long

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Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the F.B.I. would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents\nwww.nytimes.com/2026/07/1…®i_id=68038104&segment_id=223365&user_id=43b188223c20b83024b329424895e8df

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The Demon Next Door

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In a more immediate sense, invoking demons can be a means of dehumanizing and delegitimizing political enemies, which has often been a precursor to actual warfare and political violence. “It’s a very useful way to get around the Christian imperative to love your enemy,” Matthew Taylor, a visiting scholar at the Center on Faith and Justice at Georgetown University, told me.

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The True History of New England’s Stone Walls

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People love walls, especially the weather-grizzled, lichen-blotched stone walls that crisscross the woods, hills, fields, and gardens of New England. I am one of them.

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I was just in Rhode Island and saw thes stone walls. A few year’s ago here in North Carolina, I gathered up and placed granite stones on the property line between our old place and new, and I was thinking of gathering more for a wall. I did leave spaces for the turtles to cross.

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Tem horas que eu gostaria de dizer para todo mundo que só conhece rede social como forma de expressão na internet: “Saia daí, crie um site e um blog para você, seja livre!”.

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E esse post do Manton que acabei de ler, fala um um pouco disso:

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Oposição não é um princípio. Os ventos políticos inevitavelmente mudarão, deixando a polarização para trás. Construir uma internet melhor é muito mais universal. Empoderar as pessoas para que sejam donas de sua identidade, publiquem com mais liberdade, formem diversos tipos de comunidades e saiam sem perder tudo.

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Homelander Trump

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Why the mask came off, and why it was never a guardrail to begin with\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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While I was sitting on the front porch yesterday morning a hawk flew by me and into the neighbor’s ugly pear tree. Today he was drying himself off on our back fence. Husband woke me up to see him. I’ve never seen a hawk this close before,much less twice in two days.

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From spirit-animals.com:

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If a hawk totem has flown into your life, you must pay attention. You are about to receive a message from Spirit. Thus, you will need to take the time to interpret and integrate this message into your daily life. To help you interpret your hawk meaning, you must take into consideration that this bird holds the key...

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Homelander Trump

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Why the mask came off, and why it was never a guardrail to begin with\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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I am prepared

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A package of Estrella Galicia beer featuring branding details such as being an independent family-owned brewery since 1906 and a preferred beer brand in Spain is shown.

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Propaganda vs propaganda!

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What did some swing state voters think of President Trump’s primetime speech on elections?\nwww.npr.org/2026/07/1…

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Opposition is not a principle. The political winds will inevitably shift, leaving polarization behind. Building a better web is much more universal. Empowering people to own their identity, publish more freely, form many kinds of communities, and leave without losing everything.

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Social web disconnect

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The structures for community building are important.

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Open models aren’t an experiment or a research project anymore. They’re now running inside the largest companies in the world – Ollama is used by 85% of the Fortune 500 – and it’s just the beginning.

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Ollama: all aboard open models · Ollama Blog

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I’m eager to make this more accessible to nonprofits.

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The IndieWeb does not invent a platform; it defines a handful of small standards that compose with each other. The official index orders them by age and breadth of implementation.

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I joined the IndieWeb, here’s what I learned | Andros Fenollosa

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I’ve been thinking a lot about knowledge graphs organized in a way that showcases ownership, rests on domains, and uses existing standards. I’m not sure IndieWeb protocols provide all of the answer but likely much of it.

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The best thing here is that I prepared Codex and Antigravity to be used as Claude subagents, orchestrated by Fable, using the headless nature of both. Why is it cool? Because tokens are taken from the Codex and Antigravity subscriptions, so I was not paying extra, but I instantly had much more intelligence to use.

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I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens - Quesma Blog

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I’ve been working a lot of frugal AI set ups. I’m eager to mimic this approach, including local models.

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Why Am I Left-Handed? | Natalie Wolchover:

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Being left-handed is mostly no big deal. It is annoying how ink smudges under my hand. And I did once have to jump out of the way of a circular saw that I was holding backward; indeed, left-handers have more accidents while operating machinery. That aside, overall, I enjoy being left-handed. It grants entry into a smug little club, whose members — 10% of the human population — carry the secret knowledge that we are overrepresented among U.S. presidents, famous artists and musicians, and top athletes.\n

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But our difference hasn’t always been welcome. My...

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“Books that broke everything wide open” for Maggie Smith.

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showing me possibilities — in form, and in content — that I couldn’t access before

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Chunk It Down

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The fire team is the only unit of trust that actually scales\nopen.substack.com/pub/chris…

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This was all a bit strange and improbable. I'm unlikely to read the next. The Case of the Missing American (The Edie Fox Cozy Mysteries Book 1) by Julie Highmore. 📚

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Edie’s biggest mystery is how she’s going to pay the rent. She’s broke, clientless and starting to suspect she’s made a terrible mistake.

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Then a smooth-talking American in a fedora walks through the door, calls her the spit of Lauren Bacall and drops a bulging envelope of cash on her desk.

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I’ve been mulling over this quote all day…

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When people from a conservative tradition begin to question some tenants of theological conservatism, they often find a way forward through a more progressive theology. But it should not be assumed that a progressive move is in every case the way forward. It’s important to understand that progressive fundamentalism is just as false and destructive as conservative fundamentalism. We seek to discover God as revealed in Christ, not in an ism, be it conservative or progressive.

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When Everything’s on Fire: Faith Forged from the Ashes by Brian Zahnd 📚

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John Gruber, from 2010 - he was right (sort of), mac os has had changes to make this possible:

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But I don’t think iPad apps are ever going to run on the Mac as-is, without any change or adaptation to account for the very different input methods.

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💬

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💬

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💬📚 I was watching the ‘new’ ‘Death on the Nile’ last night and the thought came to mind how we all wish we were there at the time - because ….

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💬🕋

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💬👤

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💬🤖

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I’m reading Viktor Frankel’s Man’s Search For Meaning and came upon this great quote of Edith Weisskopf-Joelson:

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Our current mental-hygiene philosophy stresses the idea that people ought to be happy, that unhappiness is a symptom of maladjustment. Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.

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“Well, that didn’t work. Or that. Or that.” What now for Iran?

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Richard Haas:

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It is important to keep in mind that economic shortcomings still constitute the principal weakness of the Iranian regime. There is no reason to give up on the notion that economic pressure can lead to policy moderation or conceivably even regime change down the road. Economic relief for Iran should thus be heavily and specifically conditioned.

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The whole thing is worth your time. And Trump’s.

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Why am I not surprised?

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Like calls to like:

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Paxton struck back with Texas heavyweights…. The single $250,000 donation from Jones, the Cowboys owner, dwarfed any individual celebrity contribution to Talarico.

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Dallas Morning News, July 18, 2026

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Siderite on the broken world of technical recruiting:

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And finally, when the improbable happened and both employee and company are happy with the arrangement and it all works fine, you get the AI meddling again. Because you don’t just work now, you are assisted by artificially intelligent agents that do the menial dirty work and let you enjoy the privilege of… managing AI agents. You don’t write code anymore, you write complicated collections of rules written in English so that your agents do not royally fuck anything up when they write

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🔗 Why has Venus obsessed so many astronomers? | Aeon Essays

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I think what’s missing is the obsession, the sense of wonder that made those expeditions feel like cultural events rather than technical exercises. The instruments around me in the gallery made this contrast sharp. The telescopes and clocks of the 18th century were made of warm brass and wood, etched with flourishes and gilded corners that served no functional purpose except to be beautiful. Today’s instruments are made of cold steel and glass, efficient and practical. Perhaps that’s progress, but perhaps it’s also part of what we’ve lost –...

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matt.routleynet.org","summary":"","url":"https://matt.routleynet.org/2026/07/18/why-has-venus-obsessed-so/","date_published":"2026-07-18T14:50:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Matt Routley","url":"https://matt.routleynet.org/activitypub/mroutley","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F51%2F5597.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"mroutley"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-18 14:50","date_timestamp":1784386254,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sve3sxihpxr6dgjkix7fovei/post/3mqwjeb6zpu2e"]}},{"id":"94230125","content_html":"

💬 From my current read, Pere Goriot:

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“My life, my own life, is all in my daughters. I don’t feel cold if they are warm. I never feel sad if they are laughing. My only sorrows are theirs. When you become a father and say to yourself, as you hear your children babbling: “Thats my doing!”, when you feel these little creatures attached to you by every drop of your blood (for they were its finest flower, and thats the truth!) you will think that their skin is an inseparable part of you, your body will seem to respond to their movements. There voice speaks to me wherever I am.”

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Beautiful so far.

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Trump Media & Technology Group to launch Truth API to sell to Wall Street

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President Trump’s social media platform announced plans Thursday to sell Wall Street firms early access to its “most market-moving” posts.

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Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), the parent company of Truth Social, said it would launch “Truth API” — a direct data feed that would give investment firms “real-time access to posts from the highest-ranking Truth Social accounts.”

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The naked grifts are just never-ending. We’ve come a long way from Carter having to give up his peanut farm.

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White House teleprompter operator made more than $100K betting on Trump’s speeches: Sources - ABC News

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Gabriel Perez, a technical assistant to the president who has been operating Trump’s teleprompter since 2016, is in talks with federal regulators to settle allegations he used his inside knowledge of the president’s speeches to win more than $100,000, the sources said.

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In the land of things that do not surprise me at all.

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