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Finished "I See You've Called in Dead" by John Kenney and loved it.
Bud Stanley is an obituary writer, adrift after his divorce. After a particularly brutal blind date, Bud has a bit too much to drink and accidentally publishes his own joke obituary. Chaos ensues.
Manages to be witty and funny without being over the top. Really great characters & dialogue, which reveal deep emotional questions about really living & caring for each other.
5/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐…

I See You've Called in Dead
“Razor-sharp, darkly comedic, and emotionally piercing.…

“Additionally, Cursor’s Amazon Web Services bills more than doubled from $6.2 million in May 2025 to $12.6 million in June 2025, exacerbating a cash crunch that began when Anthropic introduced Priority Service Tiers, an aggressive rent-seeking measure that begun what I call the Subprime AI Crisis, where model providers begin jacking up the prices on their previously subsidized rates.”
#SubprimeAI
https://www.wheresyoured.at/costs/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter

Campfire, an AI-powered ERP and accounting services provider, raised a $65M Series B co-led by Accel and Ribbit Capital, after raising a $35M Series A in June (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/ai-fintech-campfire-raise-…

Why Accel Led A Round For Fintech Startup Campfire For The Second Time In Under 4 Months
Campfire, a San Francisco-based AI-powered accounting startup, has raised $65 million in a Series B round just months after closing on its Series A.

Okay, my obscure background as an erstwhile DC land use lawyer is finally relevant.
There are several agencies that oversee any projects at the White House, including the Commission of Fine Arts, the Commission for the Preservation of the White House, the National Park Service, and the National Capital Planning Commission.
Guess who apparently hasn't filed for approval from any of them?
-- Jamie Baker Roskie
Considering that Trump has one of his cronies running N…

Heh.
Cute.
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/115583173560349082

Today I learned (@todayilearned@noc.social)
Attached: 1 image TIL that the Nuremberg Charter's definition of "crimes against humanity", which was used in the Nuremberg Trials, includes only acts committed during a war of aggression. This was partly because the US was concerned that Jim Crow segregation would otherwise be considered a crime against humanity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials#Nuremberg_charter #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1p27n3t/til_that_the_nuremberg_charters_definitio…

#EroticMusings 25: Does your erotica ever explore chronic or terminal health?
I plan to write a short series focused on that topic - Namalenia is suffering from a progressing illness that picks up speed as she ages and Rhaise is suffering from a chronical condition after literally falling off an airship, almost drowning and barely surviving the ordeal. They meet on the island where …

An interview with SAG-AFTRA President Sean Astin on 2026 AMPTP talks, the Jimmy Kimmel suspension, Tilly Norwood AI controversy, the microdrama boom, and more (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/sean-astin-jimmy-ki…

SAG-AFTRA President Sean Astin Talks AI, Tilly Norwood, Jimmy Kimmel
Sean Astin sounds the alarm on the unchecked spread of AI content in his first extended inteview since his election as president of SAG-AFTRA.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gesine Nowakowski, Barbara Berg-Bretschneider, Sabine Eyer, Jiwon Choi, Joohoon Shin, Holger Marks-Simonis, Bruno Meichsner, Georg Streuber-Chraniuk, Berlin Radio Choir, Gijs Leenaars & Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin:
🎵 Serenade to Music

On February 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in the small town of East Palestine, Ohio.
Three days later, Norfolk Southern pressured local authorities to dump and burn five tanker cars full of chemicals,
blasting a mushroom cloud of toxic phosgene and hydrogen chloride into the air.
Nearly three years later, residents like Jami Wallace and her family are still suffering the toxic fallout

Residents in this small town ‘left for dead’ after industrial disaster
“It's not fair. We're people, our lives matter. My daughter's life matters. And that's what everybody is telling me: ‘You guys are just the cost of doing business. We can kill a whole community and who cares?’”

Over the past two months the U.S. has blown up at least 20 boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific.
“80 people have been killed in what are extrajudicial executions under international law,” says Juan Pappier, Americas deputy director at Human Rights Watch.
The Pentagon claims the boats were carrying drugs but officials have acknowledged they don’t know who has been killed.
The U.S.now has 15,000 military personnel in the region.

“Gunboat Diplomacy”: U.S. War in Latin America Feared as Hegseth Launches “Operation Southern Spear”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced the launch of Operation Southern Spear to target suspected drug traffickers in South America, Central America and the Caribbean. The U.S. now has 15,000 military personnel in the region. Over the past two months the U.S. has blown up at least 20 boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. “80 people have been killed in what are extrajudicial executions under international law,” says Juan Pappier, Americas deputy director at Human Rights Watch. Th…