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Vikings' J.J. McCarthy to sit out Saturday preseason game vs. Patriots after strong joint practices https://www.nfl.com/news/j-j-mccarthy-to-sit-out-saturday-preseason-game-vs-patriots-following-strong-joint-practices…

Today in "please stop saying 'environmentalism' when you mean 'being a snob'":
Caltrans ranked hydrogen trains, a fossil-fuel derived vaporware technology, as more environmentally friendly than electrification, because they think overhead wires look bad. That's the actual reason. htt…

❝Police on horseback charged at the crowd, striking some with wood rods and batons as they cleared the street in front of the federal building. Officers then fired teargas and crowd control projectiles at the large group, sending demonstrators, hotdog vendors and passing pedestrians fleeing through the street. Some have since regrouped, ignoring an LAPD dispersal order.
‘It was a total 100% over-reaction. We weren’t doing anything but standing around chanting peaceful protest,’ said Samantha Edgerton, a 37-year-old bartender.”❞
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jun/14/trump-birthday-military-parade-no-kings-protest-live-updates?page=with:block-684e0b918f08be826d571aa2#block-684e0b918f08be826d571aa2

throat is sore from being outside too long in the smoke tonight. :(
Even with the A/C on in the car and on recirculating (no outside air).
Was starting to feet that tight chest feeling.
Feeling better now that I have been inside for awhile.
#underwoodfire #portalberni #airquality

A small aside, during my vacation I finally started on writing a Metal backend for SwiftTerm.
It has a few missing features, so not worth comparing performance yet, but it is feeling great:
https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm/tree/metal-backend

GitHub - migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm at metal-backend
Xterm/VT100 Terminal emulator in Swift. Contribute to migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm development by creating an account on GitHub.

Unify, which offers AI-powered tools to boost revenue pipelines, raised a $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures, valuing it at $260M, following a $12M Series A (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/unify-ai-gtm-pipeline-40-million-raise

Unify, AI Startup Boosting Sales At Cursor And Perplexity, Raises $40 Million
Unify's Series B funding round values it at $260 million as revenue grows 17% month over month past $5 million. But a clash with GTM darling Clay may be coming up.

Man, I had a shit week.
Tried to stretch outside my comfort zone in a big way; but failed myself really badly.
Old trauma woke up at a crucial moment, and bit me really hard; and I think the whole thing, instead of being healing, just … doubled everything down.
I’m feeling worthless in a whole new way.
Feeling like I undid, in like one hour, years and years of self-confidence building.

China has expanded its media operations globally, filling the void left by Trump dismantling US-funded outlets in countries like Thailand and Nigeria (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/voice-of-america-china-russia-65f54e6a

Donald Trump’s economy went charging off a cliff
after his April 2 “Liberation Day” tariffs, which
—despite endless tweaks, revisions, abrupt extensions, and equally abrupt reversals
—are gradually settling into a new status quo
in which the costs of global trade are far higher than before.
But we’re just starting to feel the true impact of that status quo.
-- Because until recently, a series of ameliorating factors have kept things looking artificially norm…

Trump’s Tariff Pain Is Knocking at Your Door
The stopgap measures that have so far protected consumers from feeling the effects of tariffs are nearly at an end.

xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, who led its engineering teams, says he is leaving the company to launch a venture firm that supports AI research and startups (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/13/co-founder-of-elon-musks-xai-departs-t…

Co-founder of Elon Musk's xAI departs the company | TechCrunch
Igor Babuschkin is leaving xAI less than three years after he co-founded the startup with Elon Musk, following a series of scandals at company.