(Currently relevant to anyone on the northern US west coast.)

So… kind of like a bloody mary?

Kennedy’s statements also raise the remarkable specter that the man who could soon lead the Department of Health and Human Services believes that the department may have carried out a “sinister” scheme to “enslave” its own citizens—and that this scheme was implemented under the leadership of Donald Trump, the very person who has now chosen Kennedy for the HHS post.

I guess the only problem Kennedy really had with the claim is that he wasn’t in on it.

“The policies are coming from inside the house!”

I think Dick Cheney beat him to it.

A file with damaging information about Gaetz?

Isn’t that like… any news article covering him?

It’s a metric scale—just use centimoochies.

There’s glass that doesn’t block UV frequencies—like the glass used in tanning booths, UV lights, and UV cameras.

That’s true of any material that gets warmed by sunlight, though.

Infrared is the peak of the frequency range emitted by objects that are roughly body temperature—that doesn’t mean it’s the only frequency that makes objects warm.

In fact all light that isn’t perfectly transmitted or reflected makes things warmer.

I would think it would depend on whether the material the light hits inside the window reflects UV light, or absorbs it and re-emits it as heat.

So who leaked the fight about the leaks?

Trying to read too many books concurrently (at least one on each device):

• Orbital by Samantha Harvey
• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
• Beyond Narrative Coherence by Matti Hyvärinen et al.
• Language in Our Brain: The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity by Angela Friederici
• Active Inference: The ­Free Energy Princi­ple in Mind, Brain, and Be­hav­ior by Parr, Pezzulo, and Friston
• Actual Minds, Possible Worlds by Jerome Bruner
• Dreams In Late Antiquity: Studies in the Imagination of a Culture by Patricia Cox Miller
• Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning by Karen Barad
• Historical Explanation: An Anti-Causalist Approach by Gunnar Schumann
• Evolutionary Causation: Biological and Philosophical Reflections by Tobias Uller and Kevin Lala

No, they don’t want anyone who admits guilt.

One of the people most often cited in Democratic circles as a possibility for DNC chair is Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler.

I wasn’t familiar with Wikler—but after looking over his bio he seems like a surprisingly solid choice, with ties to Aaron Swartz, Al Franken, Larry Lessig, Russ Feingold, MoveOn, and The Onion.

(And I do think the Onion is relevant—it shows an understanding of messaging, and of appealing to wide audiences.)

Turns out the US healthcare system actually has an advantage for once: people can’t misuse antibiotics if they can’t afford them in the first place.

That was my first thought: I’m not really familiar with the content of any influencers, but I assume the best of them are better than the worst of the more conventional news sources.

Someone who can’t comprehend men and women working together in combat is someone who can’t comprehend working with women.

I grew up a few miles from there and knew people who worked as staff. My impression is that it’s a secret place for boring people to do nothing, in the hope that other people will think they’re doing something interesting.

Dictatorships are built on narratives. To stop them one must break their narrative, which is an iterative process—they’ll change the narrative to explain away new developments, but if you force them to keep making changes faster than their adherents can absorb them, their shared reality will fall apart.