Nintendo launches the Switch 2 globally, with long queues outside stores and midnight openings; analysts expect Nintendo to sell 15M to 20M Switch 2 units (David Keohane/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f63cfbcc-9d0e-440e-ad9a-02d01d328f93
New King of the Hill episodes August 4. Hilarious
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/05/hulu-drops-new-king-of-the-hill-opening-sequence-premiere-date
The F1 movie gives Apple its first box office hit, opening to $144M worldwide and $55.6M in the US; it was pushed on Apple Music, Podcasts, Fitness , and Wallet (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/box-office-f1-megan-2-0-1236444277/
A broken housing market is driving inequality right across Europe – and fuelling the far right https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/26/broken-housing-market-inequality-europe-far-right?CMP=S…
The F1 movie gives Apple its first box office hit, opening to $144M worldwide and $55.6M in the US; it was pushed on Apple Music, Podcasts, Fitness , and Wallet (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/box-office-f1-megan-2-0-1236444277/
Who controls the NFC East as training camp openings near? https://insidethestar.com/who-controls-the-nfc-east-as-training-camp-openings-near
50 years ago today, mickey hart & zakir hussain & the diga rhythm band with #JerryGarcia in golden gate park, playing an early version of a dead classic while opening for the jefferson starship. 3rd of 3 diga shows, following 2 at winterland, hart’s 2nd ever extra-dead gigs, after 1973’s experiment in quad sound, last until ’81. from stage mikes, i think:
The biggest political row over the heat erupted in France, where the National Rally figurehead, Marine Le Pen, called for a “major” air conditioning plan – one week after the party failed in its parliamentary push to halt new wind and solar projects. In an opinion article in Le Figaro on Thursday, the interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, a conservative, called to stop support for renewable energy and expand France’s nuclear energy sector.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/04/europe-heatwaves-failing-support-climate-action?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
»One of Mr. Reagan's advisers, David Stockman, later wrote that the real aim of fiscal policy was to create a ›strategic deficit‹ that would slam the door and reduce the size of the federal government.« https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/07/opinion/ronald-reagan.html