Dys Dat

We seem to deeply wish to turn the world into a dystopian hellscape. At least, we are trying our best to do so whether we want to or not.

Happens Dance

FBI discovers cache of guns, armor and Nazi paraphernalia while raiding home in Washington state.

Florida version of this headline and a bit of the first part of the story:

“FBI mystified not to discover cache of guns, armor and Nazi paraphernalia after raiding Florida home.”

FBI Agent Dean Waterson said he was taken aback by the lack of dangerous, illegal or offensive items in the Ocala home. “In all my years of being a field agent, I’ve never seen anything like this,” he said, citing his 20 years of experience. “These Florida places always have poorly-secured caches of guns, double lightning bolts painted on the walls and usually some meth strewn around here and there. This home had nothing like that. We’re still trying to understand it.”

Experts contacted by the Post said this might be a first-of-its-kind event….

Song Stress

I don’t think this makes me superior to anyone1, but it’s a weird thought that I listen to more new songs in a day than most people listen to in years.

I just love music. And not performatively. It’s easy to do a lot of something you deeply enjoy and love to do, really.

  1. Other things definitely do. Just not this.

Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored.

As wind farms expand, some can accidentally “steal” each others’ wind โ€“ causing worries over some countries’ energy transition to net zero.

New Guineaโ€™s poisonous birds.

The Megaproject Economy. This is great. And correct.

Almost 1 million Russian troops killed or wounded in Ukraine war, study says.

Newt.

Walmart Didnโ€™t Compete. It Replaced.

The hidden time bomb in the tax code that’s fueling mass tech layoffs.

Diabolus Ex Machina.

New footage reveals the impact of Ukraineโ€™s audacious drone attack on Russian air bases.