The median yearly salary of a clown is $51,000. And yet so many people choose to do it for free.
Day: May 14, 2026, 9:43 PM
Eviction Notice
In a sane world, we would’ve evicted Russia from Ukraine long ago.
They Do Say That
When I was in the Army in the late 1990s, I told some North Florida goofus that I had been in combat in the Vietnam War at Duk Say Quak. And he believed me. I was 20 years old and the Vietnam War ended in 1975. You do the math.
I wasn’t trying to steal any honor. I just hated the guy and figured he might be too dumb to notice. He was.
Lankum – Go Dig My Grave (Mercury Prize 2023)
I thought I’d embedded this before but I could not find it.
This is one of the best live performance in the history of anything of one of the greatest songs released in the last decade. Just an absolute masterpiece.
(Radie has her hand up to her ear like that as she’s having trouble hearing herself. The sound tech probably adjusts her in-ear monitor is why she takes her hand down.)
deary – Alma
I like the simplicity and symbolism of this video. And I like the song. Both demonstrate that you can do a lot with a little.
Engaging with the arts can slow biological aging, study shows.
We May Be Entering A Second Axial Age.
The US Is Winning the AI Race.
Producer Price Inflation Explodes as the Services PPI Blows Out on Top of the Energy Price Spike.
Data centers are cutting power to homes, driving homeowners to solar and batteries.
The ICE age is over: gas car sales drop 37% in world’s biggest market.
There’s No Need to Fear China’s Economy.
Valve Blocks Indie Dev Game For Including IP From The Same Indie Dev In Game.
Bio Herit
I see what they are getting at, and I understand it just fine, but the biological textbook definition of heritability [h = Var(genetic) / Var(phenotypic)] is almost worthless even in the scientific context in which it is used — because it doesn’t answer any important questions. It is explicitly designed to avoid those, in fact.
The whole area has been so corrupted by attempting to route around even thinking about possible racial differences that it trashed itself.