Brian’s Hprtxt Journal

Attacking, unprovoked, your closest neighbor economically (or otherwise) should be grounds for immediate removal, 25th amendment or otherwise.

It’s waaay too early to say this perhaps, but these young Magpies and their new coach might be fun to watch this season.

I don’t want the World Cup to be over.

Wow, Paraguay!

Dream start for our American boys at the Workd Cup tonight!

I’ve been thinking about this a lot, and Robert put some words behind my thoughts. – Perhaps the only way we straighten out our country is by first having the Republican Party to red-team it, and show us all the cracks in our defenses.

I’ll read just about anything about Steve Kerr.

If we adopted a four-day work week, should we liberate Monday or Friday?

If you think AI is only sycophantic, I’ll let you know I just ran some deep research on an idea and the verdict came back “mediocre-but-defensible” “not [a concept] to be proud of” 😬

A really good episode of The Ezra Klein Show on how broken the U.S. 2-party system is.

Never good to open up your social feeds and find out good friends and past colleagues have been laid off.

Really frustrating to look up an ebook and find it listed for a higher price than the hardcover.

Perhaps I should “stake a position” on a prediction market that this year’s word of the year will be “Polycrisis”.

No, YOU’RE crying. 😭 #UConn

Really enjoyed this essay from Craig Mod criss-crossing consciousness, the broad strokes of language and meaning, the understanding of machines, the possible future upheaval of society and meditation.

Why would the whole AI world host their conversations on a network run by a man who is their antagonistic competitor?

Heartbreak at St.

Weather station hit 70ºF for the first time this year.

It’s an all Apple/F1 night here for me and my girls.

“The War Department will not be distracted by democracy building interventionism, undefined wars, regime change,” U.S.

Setting aside AOC for a moment, this article says what I’ve said for a long time.

Strange new world we live in.

Lawsuits are being prepared by corporations to get back tariffs they paid, from the US government.

I don’t know why I like to watch curling.

Happy Birthday, National Weather Service.