Cowboys' DeMarvion Overshown gets brutal injury update amid Micah Parsons holdout possibility https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-demarvion-overshown-brutal-injur…
YouTube announces "open call", a new feature to let brands broadly request sponsored content from creators who are part of the YouTube Partner Program (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/youtube-open-…
War is an unconscionable horror. The illusions of "international law" and "rules of war" have lead us to believe that war can be clean, managed, and "civilized."
But wars are fought by humans and humans are messy. Humans are not well suited to following orderly rules. Humans respond to their environment. Humans in extraordinary situations can be extraordinarily vindictive and brutal. Sufficiently traumatized humans can act without a conscience, spreading trauma like an infection. If humans respond to their situation, then there can be no "civilized" war because war is itself an situation outside of the society. It is a place that promotes antisocial behavior and punishes pro-social behavior. War cannot be expected to follow "international law" because it is what fills the void created by the failure of "international law" (so long as we rely on nations).
To call for war is to inflict atrocities on civilians. It is to kill the parents and children who serve, and to destroy the combatants who survive. It is to infect both sides with a trauma that will spread if untreated, when soldiers come home or when they become mercenaries in other wars.
And yet... there are times when the brutality, the incompetence, the evil becomes so unbearable that no other option exists, when taking up arms is simply bringing symmetry to an existing asymmetric conflict. There are times when the worst possible thing is inescapable, though it can never be justified.
In this new era of war, in the scramble of conflict under the collapsing of the (poorly named) "Pax Americana," I hope that we, the people, can understand that war is not a tool to fulfill an objective. It is not part of a larger strategy. It is not an extension of deplomacy.
War is a failure.
While it may be the only way to deal with the irrational - the genocidal, the slaver, the dictator - it is still a failure. It is a failure to build a world in which these people can't control armies and economies, can't turn populations in to cults and bend nations to their will.
And we will continue to have such wars until we unite against those who would use as as pawns, who would control our lives and lead us to our deaths. We will have these wars until we unite, as one world, against those rulers. This is what I mean, and what a lot of other people mean, when we say, "No War, but Class War."
"Russia sees Trump’s 50-day window as a green light to keep up brutal offensive in Ukraine"
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/15/europe/putin-window-ukraine-war-trump-analysis-intl-hnk
Bradley Chubb: Dolphins 'were lying' about culture change last year https://www.nfl.com/news/bradley-chubb-dolphins-were-lying-about-culture-change-last-year
Bradley's understanding of this is outstanding. We can discount the goal, perhaps, but he was so very good in both directions. He was constantly showing up in places that Salah left for him and his chemistry w/ Mo & Szoboszlai is terrific. Frimpong;s signing asked questions about who might be the starter. In my view, it's Bradley. Frimpong was good. He's certainly fast, but he didn't get to show as much offensively and Bradley is a better defender. I think it's depth/…
Americans are broadly dissatisfied with how much Epstein info the government has released, CNN poll finds (Jennifer Agiesta/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/15/politics/jeffrey-epstein-cnn-poll
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p80#a250715p80
Three-dimensional SPH modeling of brittle fracture under hydrodynamic loading
Vishabjeet Singh, Chong Peng, Md Rushdie Ibne Islam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10553