Apparently that’s something that Bill Gates is an expert in…

For coding, you could use VSCode, which is not the same as VS but it has enough extensions to probably support your use-case?

Also crazy because Trump was the one who made Powell the chair of the Fed.

This How Money Works video talks about these hollow threats. In short, they probably would leave anyway.

I find the best way to start is to come up with the simplest project you can think of. Then when you get stuck, you can watch tutorials that help you figure that part out.

That way, you can actually put the tutorial teaching to use, and taking what they’re talking about and applying it to your small project will really help get it to stick.

Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson. Just about 3/4 of the way through.

That’s where the Door to Hell (Darvaza Gas Crater) is!

Yes. It’s extremely helpful when I’m doing a refactor and can just go TAB TAB TAB TAB Oops not that TAB TAB done. Saves me a lot of time with the boilerplate, but is very bad at the logic portions.

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It doesn’t make sense that this would backfire, because Trump and his supporters are perfectly capable of holding conflicting viewpoints like this.

It’s totally reasonable to expect that this would be morally reprehensible when Democrats do it, but reasonable and a smart business move when a Republican does it.

This is a great point, and one I overlooked. Thanks for sharing!

Well if the crops are going bad, you don’t need to hire the truckers to move the produce, you don’t need to hire the grocers to sell the produce, and you don’t need to hire the chefs to cook the produce.

The article doesn’t address this though, rather:

Job openings decreased in health care and social assistance by 181,000, in arts and entertainment by 62,000, and in mining and logging by 13,000.

Which doesn’t say that it’s directly related. Health care and entertainment jobs reducing is probably more indicative of Americans spending less on discretionary spending either because of economic hardship or the expectation of economic hardship.

Mining and logging losses could be tariff related, or possibly in response to softening demand for primary inputs.

Today down 1.37%, but up 7.14% overall for the week.

Current ICJ case: https://www.icj-cij.org/case/182

Putin claiming rights for all of Ukraine:

• https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-says-the-whole-ukraine-is-ours-theory-may-take-city-sumy-2025-06-20/
• https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/features/2025/6/27/putin-confirms-he-wants-all-of-ukraine-as-europe-steps-up-military-aid

General video on Russian war goals: https://youtu.be/MhpoNL1gZbw

Example of Ukrainians suffering under Russian leadership:

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucha_massacre
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

The Russian war goals include an annexation of the entirety of Ukraine and a genocide of the entire Ukrainian populace.

I don’t think giving in to that will lead to less suffering, it will lead to dramatically more suffering.

For better or worse, humans are very good at anthropomorphizing things. Put Googly Eyes on a trash collector and people call it Mr. Trash Wheel.

People think it’s sentient, because if you talk to it, it responds in sometimes unexpected ways. For humans, this is only possible through sentient thought, and so people think that LLMs are sentient, because they assume it’s like them.

I also love the erhu like the Butterfly Lover’s Concerto.

It kind of looks like ours. The flower only blooms for a very short time and then dies out, so the flower dying like this seems normal to me.

I don’t know if there’s a way to tell if it will bear fruit except just waiting, which is probably not comforting.

They finally found a way to make money off of AI

Thanks so much for writing this. They are always so good and make me nostalgic for the old gaming magazines.