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The Disaster That Just Passed the Senate (Ezra Klein/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-matthew-yglesias.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p15#a250702p15

Ravens' Lamar Jackson makes comment that should scare every NFL defense: 'The game has gotten a lot easier'

https://www.cbssports.com/…

AI is making it easier to create VTubers and faceless voiceover channels, fueling a flood of virtual creators on YouTube and TikTok amid concerns over AI slop (Zach Vallese/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/02/ai-virtual-perso…

AI virtual personality YouTubers, or 'VTubers,' are earning millions

I'm lucky in libraries, because of where I live.
My local library "system": Pikes Peak Library District is made up of 14 library locations and 3 mobile libraries that serve 500,000 people living in 2,070 square miles of El Paso County, CO, USA.
But ONLY if you live in this county.
A neighboring county has BUPKIS.
Queens Public Library (New York, USA) $50/year. Accepts non-US residents.

Palmer’s Bar in #Minneapolis will close in September #Minnesota
Many good memories of Palmer's
“there are dives and dives in this world. There’s the type Guy Fieri calls out, old joints that might not feel like they need to get their hair done before seeing company but are nonetheless f…

Palmer’s, legendary 119-year-old Minneapolis dive bar, will close in September
The owners cited declining alcohol sales at the watering hole once hailed by Esquire as one of the best bars in America.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Prince:
🎵 Teacher, Teacher
#Prince
https://princeazariyah.bandcamp.com/album/h-oly-o-ne-t-eacher

AI is making it easier to create VTubers and faceless voiceover channels, fueling a flood of virtual creators on YouTube and TikTok amid concerns over AI slop (Zach Vallese/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/02/ai-virtual-perso…

AI virtual personality YouTubers, or 'VTubers,' are earning millions

Interplay of energy and charge transfer in WSe2/CrSBr heterostructures
Jos\'e Roberto de Toledo, Caique Serati de Brito, Barbara L. T. Rosa, Alisson R. Cadore, C\'esar Ricardo Rabahi, Paulo E. Faria Junior, Ana Carolina Ferreira de Brito, Talieh S. Ghiasi, Josep Ingla-Ayn\'es, Christian Sch\"uller, Herre S. J. van der Zant, Stephan Reitzenstein, Ingrid D. Barcelos, Florian Dirnberger, Yara Galv\~ao Gobato

Interplay of energy and charge transfer in WSe2/CrSBr heterostructures
Van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHs) composed of transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and layered magnetic semiconductors offer great opportunities to manipulate exciton and valley properties of TMDs. Here, we present magneto-photoluminescence (PL) studies in a WSe2 monolayer (ML) on a CrSBr crystal, an anisotropic layered antiferromagnetic semiconductor. Our results reveal unique behavior of each of the ML-WSe2 PL peaks under magnetic field that is distinct from the pristine case. An intr…

Today’s global civilisation, however, is deeply interconnected and unequal and could lead to the worst societal collapse yet, he says. The threat is from leaders who are “walking versions of the dark triad” – narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism – in a world menaced by the climate crisis, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence and killer robots.
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If citizens’ juries and wealth caps seem wildly optimistic, Kemp says we have been long brainwashed by rulers justifying their dominance, from the self-declared god-pharaohs of Egypt and priests claiming to control the weather to autocrats claiming to defend people from foreign threats and tech titans selling us their techno-utopias. “It’s always been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of Goliaths. That’s because these are stories that have been hammered into us over the space of 5,000 years,” he says.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/02/self-termination-history-and-future-of-societal-collapse

The scary thing is not that so many Americans find it easier to imagine the apocalypse than the end of cars. The scary thing is that so many actually prefer the former to the latter, and by not choosing the latter so choose to manifest the former.
#USPol #FuckCars