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  1. Immigrant ends African-American political power in Los Angeles
  2. Checking in with Paul Krugman’s 1996 pessimism regarding Taiwan
  3. How is your personal world going to change as a result of yesterday’s election?
  4. Is there an election going on in your state right now?
  5. Music for the 50th anniversary of Jimmy Carter’s election: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
  6. Learjet N722BD crash in Palm Beach County
  7. What was The Science (Kristin Knouse) doing during coronapanic?
  8. Failed to get any trick-or-treaters this year
  9. Happy Halloween from the Manatees
  10. Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed -> Abdul El-Sayed on Wikipedia
  11. California’s billionaire tax will make California’s high-speed rail dream come true?
  12. Having some trouble checking my Bitcoin portfolio
  13. Checking in on “We Won’t Be Missed” (labor share of the economy goes to zero)
  14. Who has been to Chiricahua National Park?
  15. Mad pumpkin skills at the Palm Beach County Library
  16. Have South and Central America become more conservative because the voters who wanted a massive welfare state all moved to the U.S.?
  17. If you cancel your New York Times subscription they’ll offer you about 85 percent off
  18. Protesters in Marseille carry the French flag according to the New York Times and the Palestinian flag according to X
  19. The 2026 Kwanzaa stamps are available
  20. The long tail of losing tax base via lockdown (and of gaining tax base by rejecting Faucism)
  21. Media reports that a self-driving Tesla killed a pedestrian
  22. Yann LeCun proves that it is possible to do AI research without ever having met a human
  23. Why hasn’t Cornell already paid Jane Doe?
  24. Who pays when a jury finds that a survivor is lying?
  25. InSinkErator instant hot water success-via-failure tale (and a dishwasher question)
  26. The scuffles in mostly peaceful France and what taxpayers receive in exchange for their $3,000/year security funding
  27. Should teen drivers be charged crazy high insurance rates if they’re using Tesla FSD?
  28. What do museums, aquariums, botanical gardens, etc. get out of offering free admission to those with EBT cards?
  29. Alternative Realities in the New York Times and New York Post
  30. Alternative truths for Facebook and X users (#BelieveJaneDoe or be kicked off Facebook)
  31. What do folks expect from the Tesla Roadster this evening?
  32. Floridians and Texans should never buy a second home in a state with income and/or estate taxes
  33. The absurdity of Owners’ Equivalent Rent illustrated by Zillow
  34. Did AI stick a fork in 8K televisions?
  35. France is rich in immigrants, but not rich enough to pay its sovereign debt?
  36. Indigenous Peoples’ Day in Maskachusetts
  37. Lack of an AI chatbot inside Audible shows that Amazon thinks that running an AI is stupid/unprofitable?
  38. Sell replica aviation crash axes for kids dressing up as Hamam al-Hammami?
  39. American Muscle Car Museum in Melbourne, Florida (Paging Bernie and AOC)
  40. The DEI Nobel Prize in Literature
  41. The sea-level glass pavilion in Miami where elite sea level and hurricane alarmists will take shelter
  42. Bill Burr on Ron DeSantis’s inadequate level of coronapanic (5th anniversary)
  43. Three years of active war in Gaza prove Florence Nightingale’s theory that humanitarian aid encourages and prolongs war
  44. Elon Musk has made all of the world’s yachts more valuable
  45. AOPA abandons 85,000 followers on X
  46. Life with X Money (do you get wiped out when the world wakes up to Starship being a total failure?)
  47. Grok and ChatGPT inhabit parallel universes when asked about justice for the Cornell Victim
  48. Larry Ellison: 82 years old with five children who need tutors
  49. Artificial Intelligence for Bonsai care (ChatGPT, Bonsai Master)
  50. Why America’s professional elite are so interested in sex acts at universities
  51. FlyDubai 1073 proves how useless college graduates are
  52. Swissflation
  53. The climate and hurricane doomers of Carnegie-Mellon move to Miami
  54. Nostalgia for New England: Workshop for Women, Nonbinary, and Gender-nonconforming Writers
  55. MIT technology fails spectacularly for grid-scale batteries
  56. Cirrus Fuel Tank Selector Failure
  57. NYT vs. my friend’s lived experience at the CDC
  58. Rage against Elon Musk’s wealth: a forced update to source code
  59. Menlo Park and Palo Alto, California trip report
  60. Stanford University campus trip report
  61. Sixth Annual Freedom to Breathe Day in Florida
  62. Cooperation between the U.S. and Russia/Putin in 2001
  63. How was the immigration of Chukwunonso Uzoma David Uzoma Eze supposed to make Americans better off?
  64. Trying to cut down on groupthink in medical research
  65. Napa, California trip report
  66. iPhone 18 Pro Max first impressions
  67. Oakland, California trip report
  68. How would the AI slowdown for safety actually work?
  69. Piedmont, California trip report
  70. Tesla Y L showroom experience
  71. Is the smartest response to the Jason Arday tragedy to eliminate academic research departments of sociology and education?
  72. Bad news for the Florida Beach Season: there is no beach (NYT)
  73. 25th anniversary of “Islam is Peace” (and photos from the 9/11 Memorial & Museum)
  74. Why not fight inequality in corporate profitability?
  75. AI in Africa fueled by what would have been tax dollars (Bill Gates as Upgraded-with-LLM White Savior)
  76. Trying to make sense of 9/11, a few days later
  77. Migrants whose TPS status has expired can stay and work for 10+ years via the asylum process
  78. Getting rich off the Tesla Cybercab with disclaimer magnets/clings
  79. Preparing for the Age of AI with Prof. Uju Anya at Carnegie-Mellon at $93,614 per year
  80. Tesla Y Avis rental experience
  81. Battle of the Storks (U.S. Open Tennis)
  82. Islamophobiaphobia in the New York Times
  83. Are iPhone 18 sales off to a weak start?
  84. 9/11 25th anniversary reading: Project Maven
  85. Speakflation
  86. 25th anniversary of United Flight 93
  87. Investigative reporters at the New York Times uncover the real victims of the 9/11 attacks
  88. Will any Salvadorans in the U.S. go home to El Salvador today?
  89. iPhone 18 Pro camera improvements
  90. Bar Harbor, Maine report
  91. ChatGPT proves that universities are collections of second-rate humans (Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness)
  92. Potential Maskachusetts jurors surveyed regarding Lindsay Clancy verdict
  93. Brookline, Massachusetts bookstore
  94. Salary Survey (San Francisco AI/robotics and New Jersey radiology)
  95. Boeing 767 crash in Miami
  96. Elephants in Boston
  97. Metropolitan Museum of Art Visit
  98. Immigrant population down; total number of jobs up; how?
  99. New York City: taxpayer-funded immigration lawyers,
  100. New York City: new land acknowledgments and reminders that white women behave poorly in public
  101. New York Times tells employers how to boost profits (hire only women)
  102. Whitney Biennial 2026
  103. Recognition of Art by Women (Norton Museum in West Palm Beach)
  104. Is the economic/stock market boom from Artificial General Intelligence already behind us because the advent of AGI is already behind us?
  105. What does Syracuse University teach for $100,000 per year?
  106. AI hotel room rates ($4,312 per night plus tax)
  107. Avoiding the Mamdani Caliphate’s pied-à-terre tax with a child in college
  108. Minivan news for the 2027 model year (TL;DR: time to buy a Tesla Y L)
  109. Fact-checking at the New England Journal of Medicine
  110. Revisiting the new terminal at LaGuardia: awesome outdoor space, but no place to work
  111. Even companies worth $1 trillion don’t want to pay Nvidia’s prices
  112. Remembering Dolly Parton by remembering Dollywood
  113. National Park Service funding vs. crony profit, a Dry Torugas example
  114. A year since Iryna Zarutska died: no consequences so far for anyone in government
  115. Tesla FSD ergonomic disaster: no right footrest (dead pedal)
  116. New York Times says it is time to stiff the bondholders out of their $40 trillion
  117. La Traviata in Bangor at Opera Acadia
  118. Explaining the academic socialist factory
  119. ChatGPT, roof warranty analyst
  120. Did Spain prove via Ceuta that welfare is what pulls in low-skill migrants?
  121. Africa, before and after the Gates Foundation begin its work
  122. Alex Vindman, the immigrant carpetbagger, loses to a socialist
  123. Chicago Wrap-Up
  124. Sally Ride as an inspiration to the LGBTQ+ community (Griffin Museum of Science and Industry)
  125. “Black Creativity” celebrated at the Jewish-founded/Jewish-funded Griffin Museum of Science and Industry
  126. Pregnancy explained by a science museum in a state that offers abortion care at any stage of pregnancy (Illinois)
  127. The sad death of Jason Arday
  128. Griffin Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago
  129. Porsche 911 GT3 appears just in time to make me look smart
  130. Touring a German U-boat in Chicago
  131. Cars and Coffee at the Birthplace of the IBM PC (Boca Raton, Florida)
  132. Is Francesca Hong the highest quality Democrat in Wisconsin?
  133. Grateflation from 2014 to 2026
  134. Alex Vindman tries to take a Black woman’s job (Florida Senate race)
  135. Harley-Davidson Museum features Black riders to its Hispanic visitors
  136. Florida Republican governor primary candidates: insanity on parade
  137. Royal Air Force Red Arrows at Oshkosh
  138. Would ChatGPT have hired Jason A. K. Arday?
  139. Plagiarist Claudine Gay getting paid $3.1 million/year after “resigning” from Harvard
  140. SpaceX lockup expiration today will create a lot of marriages and divorces?
  141. Graham Platner’s next job: airline pilot (First Class FAA Medical while 100% disabled according to the VA)
  142. Michigan Senate race outcome: pre-wedding coronapanic lasts longer than the marriage
  143. Boring, but important: Piston engine oil and leaded gasoline talks at Oshkosh
  144. The next Florida governor could be an inverse Mamdani Democrat (David Jolly’s plan to steal from renters and give to property owners)
  145. Celebration of the B-1 Bomber (BONE) at Oshkosh
  146. Why didn’t Europe want to be enriched by the Ceuta migrants?
  147. Elizabeth Warren’s Stinson at Oshkosh
  148. Ceuta migrant question: Why are some Africans entitled to live in Europe, but not all?
  149. The most beautiful warbird at Oshkosh this year (PBY Catalina)
  150. I drove my Prius to the bookstore in Evanston
  151. Can Spain get rich by selling the Ceuta migrants to other EU nations?
  152. Will Amazon be the dominant commercial drone company?
  153. Robots to bury Canadian trees instead of letting them burn (massive CO2 release)?
  154. Historical Dr. Fauci content from this blog
  155. Voter ID in Evanston, Illinois
  156. Fauci was never an egomaniac
  157. A Navy of seaplanes for a world of drones and hypersonic missiles
  158. Why didn’t the German police subdue Abdul Ballout with a taser?
  159. Evanston, Illinois Public Library
  160. An uninterruptible power supply for A/V cabinets (lithium-ion!)
  161. Congolese refugee life in Oshkosh, Wisconsin
  162. How many Americans does it take to support one Somali daycare owner?
  163. Family aviation limps into the turbine era (Carbon Cub with TurboTech engine)
  164. Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan as examples of GDP growth with working population shrinkage.
  165. Immigration as an example of animal hoarding and New York’s new taxpayer-funded cat food program
  166. How’s France doing?
  167. How’s your National Data Center Day of Protest going?
  168. What Would Barnes Wallis (WWBW) do with Iran?
  169. Why does birth tourism to middle class foreigners bother Americans, but millions of children of millions of TPS foreigners don’t concern anyone?
  170. Claude is “marginally the best, but quite expensive”
  171. Don’t go outside, says the New York Times
  172. Federal government rewrites Disney’s Circle of Life (SNAP then Ozempic via Medicare)
  173. 100th birthday of the man who made the X-ray diffraction image of crystallized DNA that helped Watson and Crick
  174. Quantifying the understatement of inflation due to the Owners’ Equivalent Rent fantasy (Wall Street Journal data)
  175. New York Times summarizes Lindsey Graham’s 71-year life as “Trump ally” while reminding us that the true American heroes aren’t, strictly speaking, American
  176. Jones Act Port: Victoria, British Columbia
  177. A group of humans with a lower IQ collects a smaller share of income
  178. After 17 years, something new from Garmin in retrofit glass panels
  179. Photos of Donald J. Trump International Airport (formerly PBI)
  180. Does Gemini (Google AI) think that European elites are adapting to Climate Change (TM) by replacing their peasants with humans imported from hot places?
  181. Visiting Ketchikan with 19,000 of my best friends
  182. Google Flights #Resists the defilement of a once-beautiful airport (PBI -> DJT)
  183. Icy Strait Point
  184. How was the immigration of Bekhzod Asrarov supposed to make Americans better off?
  185. Could Graham Platner get $1 billion from MacKenzie Scott Bezos and friends in exchange for dropping out of the Maine Senate race?
  186. We’ve seen the library in Sitka, Alaska; what about the rest of the town?
  187. ChatGPT visits Skagway, Alaska
  188. Remembering Alex Kowalski at the National Corvette Museum
  189. ChatGPT’s day in Juneau, Alaska
  190. Front page news from the folks who tell us that we’re in a Climate Emergency and losing our democracy
  191. The U.S. at 250 (and best tutorials for kids on how integrated circuits are fabricated)
  192. Also the 250th anniversary for the Loyalists
  193. Intelligent New Yorkers shut down their supersized nuclear power plant a year before the AI/data center boom began
  194. The reproductive success of Minnesota child molesters
  195. Hoh Rain Forest
  196. How’s Katie Wilson doing running Seattle?
  197. Closing out Pride Month here in our Florida neighborhood
  198. Norwegian Joy Alaska Cruise
  199. With birthright citizenship upheld, will Democrats now say that Supreme Court orders should be followed?
  200. Pride Games in the New York Times; Dubai and Pride at Shake Shack
  201. Heat is to South Florida as air conditioning is to Europe
  202. Filterflation
  203. Bloedel Reserve, a model (I hope) for rich douches everywhere
  204. Posters to show solidarity with our baked brothers, sisters, and binary-resisters in Europe
  205. The Beaches of Olympic National Park
  206. Do public health considerations prevent Minneapolitans from bringing toy poodles with them to the bathhouse?
  207. What can we buy from Venezuela to help the Venezuelans recover from the recent earthquake?
  208. Intersection of Islam and 2SLGBTQQIA+ Pride in Port Angeles, Washington
  209. Olympia, Washington: Too busy with “Nothing but Hate for Israel and Zionism” to help their homeless neighbors
  210. Why don’t the Islamic European countries install A/C for their black burqa-clad lifestyle?
  211. Wear a mask for National Safety Month?
  212. Revisiting Alan Greenspun’s 2007 book
  213. Mount Rainier National Park
  214. If the 1950s were a “rat race” for men, what is the correct term for the 2020s?
  215. Codex works to verify a chart showing Iran having a relatively high level of religious tolerance compared to neighbors
  216. Father’s Day at the New York Times
  217. The LeMay car museums in Tacoma
  218. Sitka, Alaska Public Library
  219. Target on Juneteenth
  220. Maskachusetts starts work on an exit tax
  221. COVID-19 killed most of America’s old people and now Social Security is insolvent
  222. How can the U.S. benefit from the proposed Iran peace deal?
  223. Seattle Trip Report (minus Seattle per se), Part III
  224. Nobel-grade do-gooding (microfinance) considered harmful
  225. SpaceX is worth $63/share according to the most expert experts
  226. Sonos, eight years after the IPO
  227. Seattle Trip Report (minus Seattle per se), Part II
  228. The Swiss vote to bulk up on humans just in time for the Age of AI and Robotics.
  229. Seattle Trip Report (minus Seattle per se), Part I
  230. New Bumper Sticker for my Tesla and/or Honda Odyssey
  231. Seattle’s Museum of Flight
  232. Who has already flipped his/her/zir/their SpaceX shares?
  233. I am buying a lot of SpaceX stock; what will it be worth?
  234. How are bond investors doing vs. inflation?
  235. Why don’t Americans on welfare seek jobs on cruise ships?
  236. Playing with Pride in Florida
  237. Could autonomous electric aircraft make life in Southeast Alaska more attractive?
  238. Peak Land Acknowledgement at Glacier Bay National Park
  239. What could Honda do to pull out of its tailspin?
  240. Are New York Jews now the biggest per-capita financial supporters of anti-Jewish propaganda?
  241. Starlink on Norwegian Cruise Line
  242. Florida citrus industry both created and destroyed by immigrants
  243. Happy Pride
  244. Multiple perspectives on Paris
  245. Closing out Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
  246. Trip to Cambridge, Maskachusetts wrap-up (Part II)
  247. Trip to Cambridge, Maskachusetts wrap-up (Part I)
  248. Ron DeSantis wants to set up Florida property taxes to be like federal income taxes (paid by a minority and benefiting the majority)
  249. College graduate vs. Immigrant Handyman in Boston
  250. The Righteous of Lincoln, MA celebrate homosexuality on Eid al-Adha
  251. Harvard geniuses underperform the S&P 500 by 15 percent per year
  252. Memorial Day in Alaska
  253. Environmentalists and inequality-haters in New York City
  254. Immigration of a disabled illiterate Rohingya goes badly wrong
  255. New York’s pied-à-terre tax vs. Florida’s homestead discount
  256. Are air-conditioned cars the reason that we tolerate America’s jammed roads?
  257. San Diego mosque shooting: What do Californians have in common?
  258. Lack of commitment to the bachelor’s degree
  259. Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Google, and NVIDIA employees meet for dinner
  260. Packing up our parkas because of Climate Change in Alaska
  261. Boston’s white working-class suburbs have been transformed into multi-cultural wonderlands
  262. Why we can’t simply limit oil and gas exports to 2025 levels
  263. Hate in the bedroom closet
  264. High gas prices reflected in car rental rates
  265. Why haven’t name-brand hybrid e-bikes gotten dramatically lighter?
  266. Tesla full-self-driving tackles the bikes, pedestrians, and general chaos of Cambridge
  267. Real estate lawyer competition among our AI overlords
  268. Bostonians blame Trump for their biotech slump
  269. Suspend the exit tax to get rid of Elon Musk and other toxic billionaires?
  270. How to write a thank-you note to a teacher
  271. Mother’s Day at Harvard
  272. Fiber-to-the-home arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts
  273. The incompetence of HVAC installation and maintenance in Massachusetts
  274. Ozempic/GLP-1 drugs are yet another way for Boomers to steal from those of working age
  275. Does it make sense to pay for high-net-worth insurance in coastal South Florida?
  276. How about a school/camp that runs in Florida half the year and New Hampshire the other half?
  277. Building 6-story apartment houses in single-family neighborhoods in Cambridge
  278. Boston Public Schools demonstrate the value of learning Haitian Creole in elementary school
  279. Death of Spirit: a low-cost airline without the low costs (government should break up airport monopolies?)
  280. Wall Street Journal: Americans can’t afford to live in America because house maintenance costs too much
  281. Asian hate in Kansas
  282. Brown University, Class of 2031 Tour
  283. Genius doctors who actually do get paid 20X the fair price for procedures
  284. How were race-based congressional districts supposed to work in our open-borders age?
  285. Is it bad that Florida is no longer affordable for the middle class?
  286. Fifth anniversary of our first family trip to Jupiter, Florida
  287. New York Times searching for a motive
  288. New York Times: Family disintegration leads to military disintegration
  289. Lionel Shriver on why an American or European might oppose immigration on nonfinancial grounds
  290. Good news for gold bugs: houses are cheap
  291. Predicting the effects of AI on labor markets by looking at container shipping (a book about the Box called The Box)
  292. Instead of free public transit, how about congestion rebate public transit?
  293. Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach car auction
  294. Sixth anniversary of the best COVID-19 video
  295. Marijuana and book stores in Harvard Square
  296. Who will rescue the rescuer? (Hampshire College)
  297. Lionel Shriver on elite college admissions
  298. Statistics on taxes paid by the undocumented
  299. Hop a flight to Orlando or Tampa for Sun ‘n Fun this weekend!
  300. Art Palm Beach
  301. When do rising sea levels make Florida beachfront real estate less valuable?
  302. An actual skier goes to Aspen to ski
  303. Explanation of why Eric Swalwell had to be destroyed
  304. What could make us look weaker than going to Pakistan and negotiating with Iran as a peer?
  305. Why do Iranians who support the Islamic Republic regime stay in the U.S. and pay taxes to fund our military?
  306. Tiger Woods and Tesla
  307. Jeffrey Epstein was at the heart of the decision to fight Iran and also at the heart of the decision to stop fighting Iran?
  308. Compare estimates of white male economic importance from TV viewers, streamers, and readers?
  309. Won’t Iran use the two-week ceasefire to regroup, rearm, and raise money by exporting oil?
  310. Wall Street Journal upset that a place at Duke opens up for an American
  311. Cost of attending the NCAA Final Four games
  312. Shout-out to Igor Sikorsky after the F-15 pilot/WSO rescue in Iran
  313. Happy Easter from the Obesity Bunny
  314. Iran war listening from Audible
  315. $1559 of lab work for $103
  316. Schrödinger’s job market: “strong” and “slow” at the same time (NYT)
  317. Artemis II launch experience
  318. Feel better about your upcoming college tuition bills
  319. International Transgender Day of Visibility in Florida
  320. Florida Legislature responds to the No Kings protest by renaming Palm Beach International Airport…
  321. Farrier pay: Feel better about those college tuition costs
  322. Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas
  323. How was your No Kings rally yesterday?
  324. 12 Hours of Sebring and a car show in Jupiter
  325. Bank of America customers get to pay $72.5 million to Jeffrey Epstein’s female associates
  326. Why is it legal for the U.S. to shut off oil and electric power in Cuba, but a “war crime” if we were to do it to Iran?
  327. San Diego tries to outlaw Jew-hate (sort of)
  328. The Trump- and Elon-hater leases a Tesla Model Y
  329. Trump tried to fill our Strategic Reserve at $20-25/barrel, but wise Senators blocked him
  330. Will the Iran situation persuade a few more Americans of the virtues of the 2nd Amendment?
  331. The LaGuardia airplane-fire truck crash
  332. The latest Pixar movie (Hoppers) and The Population Bomb (by Paul Ehrlich)
  333. We’re now surrending to Iran?
  334. Why do we pay for cable TV if all agree that it is a terrible value?
  335. Donald Trump’s lies regarding the range of Iranian missiles
  336. What do we tell the AI-fearful?
  337. Why don’t the Iranians run their government from hospitals?
  338. An F/A-18 pilot comments on the F-15s shot down by Kuwaitis
  339. Rename Cesar Chavez schools and streets to honor Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei?
  340. False Dawn: FDR and the Great Depression
  341. San Francisco Bay Area Trip Report IV (Mare Island)
  342. Don’t kill your enemies if you want to win a war (NYT)
  343. San Francisco Bay Area Trip Report III
  344. Iran war progress analysis from Al-Jazeera
  345. San Francisco Bay Area Trip Report II
  346. How was the immigration of Ayman Mohamad Ghazali supposed to make Americans better off?
  347. San Francisco Bay Area Trip Report I
  348. Las Vegas report
  349. We are being absolutely crushed by Iran (NYT)
  350. Book about the Edmund Fitzgerald
  351. Our war on Iran has been less destructive to Iran’s economy than the Biden-Harris administration was to the U.S. economy?
  352. Pahrump, Nevada report
  353. Why are Climate Change alarmists also Strait of Hormuz alarmists?
  354. Should people prepare for the AI/Robotics Age by getting into public housing now?
  355. Starbucks billionaire advocates for higher tax rates and moves to Florida
  356. Does Iran’s indifference to being bombed highlight how dangerous they would have been as a nuclear power?
  357. Perfect photo for Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna’s “tax the rich” effort
  358. Brave fighters against Islamophobia in New York prove law professor’s point
  359. AI catastrophists will feel better if they become climate catastrophists?
  360. LBJ Library: remembering America’s most consequential president
  361. New York Times Iran Vibe
  362. University of Texas, Austin report
  363. Why don’t heavy drinkers get Tesla FSD?
  364. Brightline to Orlando review
  365. AI economy terminates as petrostate?
  366. Austin, Texas barbecue and pinball updates
  367. If attacking Iran is a disaster for the U.S., why is the stock market slightly up?
  368. How was the immigration of Ndiaga Diagne supposed to make Americans better off?
  369. Larry Summers: association with Jeffrey Epstein was a serious, but not urgent, problem
  370. Theodicy question: Why didn’t Allah protect the Islamic Republic of Iran from attack by infidels?
  371. The righteous of Lincoln, Maskachusetts can take credit for the calm atmosphere in Minneapolis
  372. Wartime reading: The Last Days of Budapest
  373. Bartleby, the Divorce Plaintiff: A Story of Wall-Street
  374. Record of New York City coronapanic
  375. AI says you’re autistic if you don’t love Taylor Swift
  376. New Floridian goes back to Maskachusetts (also: catching up with NPR)
  377. How did our Trump-hating Olympians do at the Olympics?
  378. TSA employees working without pay
  379. Barbados, Tortola, St. Lucia, and Antigua
  380. Sandpiper Bay: a dog-friendly all-inclusive resort in Port St. Lucie, Florida
  381. AI and Coding class at MIT: What should undergraduates be taught?
  382. Product Idea: AI-fueled web site crawler that highlights HTML/CSS failures
  383. Antigravity as web developer on ancient and obscure technology (AI in an IDE)
  384. Remembering Robert Duvall: “A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns”
  385. LLMs to replace dead programmers who worked in dead languages (ChatGPT updates AOLserver Tcl API code)
  386. Celebrity Ascent Southern Caribbean cruise review
  387. Valentine’s Day for Nerds
  388. Two Minutes Hate against Jeffrey Epstein is the new heterosexual Rainbow Flagism?
  389. Get together in Austin Feb 20? Or Vegas on February 24?
  390. Antigravity as web developer (AI in an IDE)
  391. Climate change alarmist pays $200 million for a sea level house; time for new envy level?
  392. The Army helicopter crash in DC revisited
  393. Bad Bunny’s nuanced views on immigration
  394. Why won’t San Francisco Democrats provide their teachers with fair compensation?
  395. If AI is useful why is gold gaining in value compared to the S&P 500?
  396. In Mr. Biden’s Neighborhood only one of your next-door neighbors is a violent criminal
  397. AI competition for the redesign of a site that already has CSS
  398. Shout-out to our brothers, sisters, and binary-resisters in Minneapolis
  399. Add EBT card readers to televisions?
  400. Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl
  401. Can LLMs bring the Berkshire Hathaway web site into the 21st century? (AI and CSS/HTML)
  402. How’s everyone’s crypto wallet doing?
  403. Why Johnny LLM can’t read web page source code
  404. Mask efficacy Scientists move to Cato and prove that immigration makes us rich
  405. How does a no-fault divorce culture play out over two generations?
  406. Gemini and Antigravity fixed the Bill Gates Personal Wealth Clock
  407. Professor Dr. ChatGPT, Ph.D. in Dance Theory
  408. You’re never too old for Ozempic
  409. Natives suffer when migrants are deported (NPR)
  410. ChatGPT struggles to correct lecture slides
  411. ChatGPT vs. Grok for programming Microsoft Excel
  412. Our tax dollars at work: 500 lawyers and the Epstein files (also, Gulfstream and Bell helicopter maintenance costs)
  413. What do the Minneapolis police do during the daily street brawls?
  414. No financial reward for the Covid Righteous (Metropolitan Opera)
  415. Why would New York State subsidize parents in New York City, but not in poorer parts of New York State?
  416. Unable to move off the Gaza Genocide in Cambridge
  417. 9mm of Peace, a song of Minneapolis
  418. Progressive v. Progressive in Cambridge, Maskachusetts
  419. Replacement of Black workers by migrants in Cambridge, Massachusetts
  420. Claude co-founder’s perspective on the Alex Pretti shooting vs. Claude AI’s perspective
  421. Challenger jet crash in Bangor, Maine
  422. Climate Anxiety therapy canceled due to Climate Emergency
  423. The genius of Johnny Cash and the death of a progressive in Minneapolis
  424. Why haven’t a lot more people been shot in Minneapolis?
  425. When Harvard graduates try to use numbers (Dan Koh, Massachusetts candidate for Congress)
  426. Rename Caribbean “The Sea of Obesification”?
  427. New favorite Caribbean island: St. Kitts
  428. Celebrity Starlink Wi-Fi Internet (3 Mbps at $1,000 per month)
  429. Should today’s 18-year-olds avoid liberal arts colleges because such schools are likely to disappear during their careers?
  430. Are used car prices falling now that immigrants are leaving the U.S.?
  431. Our neighbor prepares for the college football championship game
  432. Does the Greenland controversy prove that Donald Trump is a genius?
  433. MIT IAP courses for 2026
  434. One can mock the righteous, but Google won’t index it
  435. Somali day care background book: Mississippi Swindle
  436. Why does ICE have any migrants to detain?
  437. Small-town life in the Islamic Republic of Germany
  438. White people who live in all-white neighborhoods say that Scott Adams was racist
  439. Could the Federal Reserve gnomes work in a cruise ship moored in the Potomac?
  440. Meet in Cambridge next week? Or come to our FAA Ground School class?
  441. Is Minnesota the new Purdue Pharma/Sackler Family?
  442. History of Huawei (III)
  443. Greta Thunberg tennis court (solar panel sunshade)
  444. Something interesting about Jeffrey Epstein: the source of his wealth
  445. Was the person killed in Minneapolis even aware that an ICE operation was in progress?
  446. History of Huawei (II)
  447. How do nonprofits that promise to discriminate get federal money?
  448. Regina Gittes Greenspun Eulogy
  449. What else I learned at Art Basel
  450. History of Huawei book
  451. How much will Venezuela cost U.S. taxpayers?
  452. Limit your extramarital sexual partners to 1,000 per year for penile implant longevity
  453. Wall Street Journal celebrates an all-male gay throuple
  454. Occupancy sensor-based per-room water shutoff?
  455. The Mamdani Caliphate officially begins

2025 24

  1. George Foreman, Rob Reiner, Frank Gehry, and other losses in 2025
  2. The Florida insurance bubble seems to be deflating
  3. AI will write such verbose code that only another AI will have the patience to maintain it
  4. Every public school should register as a Somali day care in order to receive federal funds?
  5. Stocks for the long run and money illusion
  6. Grade inflation in the public schools
  7. Happy Kwanzaa
  8. Why aren’t we seeing a resurgence of voluntary communism within the U.S.?
  9. Christmas spirit in Palm Beach County
  10. U.S. economy defies Science
  11. Philip’s Book Club: False Dawn
  12. Art Miami Miami 2025
  13. If a declining population is a disaster, shouldn’t the world’s best places to live be those with a young and growing population?
  14. Art Basel Miami Beach 2025
  15. Additional photos from Minneapolis
  16. Unprovoked genocide against the Uyghurs
  17. We’ve deported a college student and are keeping Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia?
  18. Massachusetts Immigration Update
  19. The Brightline experience (low-speed high-speed rail in Florida)
  20. NYU: Forced to learn about gender non-conformity among the indigenous people of French Canada
  21. Artificial stupidity meets the bathtub faucet
  22. Remembering Roy Black
  23. Microsoft is abandoning its diversity efforts?
  24. Minneapolis in December