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Nobody on their deathbed ever said, "I wish I'd been less grateful."
This is the photo Halsman had taken. They chatted as he photographed, and immediately before this Halsman had asked him about losing his security clearance, if his government had betrayed him. So far AI won't get us there.
Looking forward to an update on the 1 million robots. I wrote some journalistic analogies about them last year.
In Vegas for the ultimate irony: Which place has no casinos, free parking, a (relatively) reasonably-priced restaurant, and employee benefits including healthcare?
ICE agent in Minneapolis yesterday, on his SS tattoo: "I had this done years ago. I ain't had time to change it." He'd come up from Texas, which is not sending its best people.
It's clear Brockman scrubbed Epstein from much of Edge, but you can still find him in lots of pictures for many years, and Epstein's sponsorship of a Science prize in 2005 is still on the site. This is my favorite near scrub, from a 2004 survey, "What's Your Law?" www.edge.org/responses/wh...
Marketing to the oligarchy, 2025. Yes, this really is a government website, Trumpcard.gov
Our president has some history with this kind of thing. From the great @davidcayjohnston.bsky.social www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
Pairs sadly with this bit I recently calculated when writing about the first minimum wage, 25 cents an hour. Adjusted for inflation, we're currently demanding 79 cents an hour less than that. source thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/time-money...
By sheerest coincidence, I wrote this yesterday: thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/time-money...