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@… isn't that pretty much the default state of humanity, though? It's building state institutions and the rule of law that was the remarkable if fragile accomplishment.

NASA Says Farewell to MAVEN Mars Mission, Hosts Media Call Today: #MAVEN mission leadership and experts to provide an update to mission operation's at Mars and discuss the mission's accomplishments at 18:00 UTC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WALToxcMjo

The life of a novelist is like that of the sysadmin in that the details of our professional accomplishments are conversational antimatter.
Normal humans have no relevant context.
National Writers Series: Anna Quindlen | Interlochen Public Radio https://www.

National Writers Series: Anna Quindlen
Doug Stanton talks with author Anna Quindlen about her latest novel, "More Than Enough."

Six months out from a midterm election in which their majority is at stake,
Senate Republicans face a difficult legislative path with a rising number of restless lame-duck senators and a growing sense that the president cares much less about accomplishments that could boost them in November than about protecting himself and settling his political scores.
It comes as Republicans already face a grim political environment made worse by Mr. Trump’s decisions to pursue a war in Iran t…

Trump Gets His Payback in Primary Elections, but It Comes at a Cost in Congress
Republican senators are angry the president is working to unseat their colleagues. But he is also creating more free agents in his own party in Congress willing to defy him.

XDOF, which is building data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation systems for robot training data, emerges from stealth with $70M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/colle…

Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it. | TechCrunch
If physical AI is going to match the accomplishments of LLMs, there's a data problem that needs to be solved.

Cowboys' WR retires from NFL at age 28 https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-wr-retires-nfl-age-28/993010f0726a431b675a2b24

Amy Langenberg outlines a research agenda using Mahāsāmghika-lokottaravādin nun's Vinaya texts in order to document women's roles as health practitioners in South Asia. This looks like amazing research - "peering around the archival bulge" of patriarchal sources and conclusions.
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Breaking down Lindsey Graham's key accomplishments (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/breaking-down-lindsey-grahams-key-accomplishments/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260713/p50#a260713p50

Not new, but still relevant.
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