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Excerpts from Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Infrastructure’
Should I be scared? the boy asked. To go on the roads? And to go on planes?

Just some planes, the man said. You can still go on planes mostly.

I’m glad, the boy said. Otherwise, how would they feed toddlers.

What, said the man.

The boy flew a piece of food toward his mouth. He made an airplane sound.

Oh, the man said.

It was a joke, the boy said.

Of course, the man said. Jokes. Yes.
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Excerpts from Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Infrastructure’
Roads crumbling into the sea and ash falling from the sky. Lots of ash.

What better way to set your company up for success than to burn the bridges to your future employees?
#tesla #ev
“Tesla’s Interns Reportedly Feeling the Wrath of Elon Musk
Elon Musk's massive cost-cutting efforts at Tesla are hitting the company's summer intern class.”

Tesla’s Interns Reportedly Feeling the Wrath of Elon Musk
Elon Musk's massive cost-cutting efforts at Tesla are hitting the company's summer intern class.

I recognize this tactic — drown the one you are suing in overly-broad discovery requests. It's combination fishing exercise, financial burden, and scare tactic to others. #AudioEye tried the same shit in its SLAPP against me (thankfully NY stays discovery when there is a motion to dismiss, not like AudioEye’s attorneys honored that).
“X filing ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ in Texas should be ‘fat…

X filing “thermonuclear lawsuit” in Texas should be “fatal,” Media Matters says
Musk’s attempt to venue-shop Media Matters lawsuit is not likely to end well.

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 126 nodes and 28561 edges.
Tags: Soc…

Nikki Haley Tries to Keep South Carolina From Ending Her Campaign (John McCormick/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/nikki-haley-tries-to-keep-south-carolina-from-ending-her…

Sometimes I'm like, "he's 12, he should really be packing his own school lunch now." And then he does shit like this.
#parenting

I didn’t know there was a creek cam for the San Tomas Aquinas Creek in #SanJose
Yeah, it’s filling up…
https://valleywateralert.org/scvwd/webcams/site.php?cid=9016…

Two of the best films I’ve seen of Jaclyn Jose in a leading role, one dramatic, the other comedic.
#RestInPeace #GoneTooSoon #JaclynJose

Japan's Nikkei index crossed the 40,000 threshold for the first time early Monday on robust technology issues following the advance of their U.S. counterparts late last week.
The Nikkei benchmark quickly topped the 40,000 line after the market opening. In the first 15 minutes of trading, the 225-issue #Nikkei #Stock

Nikkei tops 40,000 for 1st time after upbeat Wall St.
Japan's Nikkei index crosses the 40,000-point threshold for the first time on robust technology issues following the advance of their U.S. counterparts late last week.

Today is the 125th anniversary of the start of the Philippine–American War, which is the #UnitedStates‘ biggest conflict in the period between the Spanish–American War and World War I. The Americans‘ victory by 1902 cemented the U.S.‘ reputation as an imperial power with colonies across the Pacific from Manila to San Juan, Puerto Rico.
What I find really sad is that most Americans don’t e…