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- Peter Attia: is there a tradeoff between strength and aerobic capacity?
- Jonathan Turley: The EU unleashes the DSA on X. This could be the end of the EU (Brexit was just the start). He's not wrong.
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- EU fires a free speech warning at X. Have to wonder if this was a clumsy attempt by EU officials to get free "Blue Checkmarks" on their X accounts gone globally wrong?
- Harvest Now Decrypt Later (HNDL). Was unaware of this cyber threat. (HT Tim Ferriss)
- How AI is uncovering hidden geothermal energy recourses.
- How AI can actually increase employment - like in radiologists.
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- Javier Milei and rent control. This is the way. We've known for decades that rent control is a bad policy.
- From the archives: Paul Graham - How to Think for Yourself.
- We need to talk about Ken Burns' American Revolutionary War documentary. Burns originally wanted to cut Shelby Foote from his Civil War documentary. That's all you need to know about his sensibility.
- Jonathan Turley: GWU students call for RFK Jr. to be barred from campus.
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- ChatGPT dolls becoming caregivers in South Korea. The cost of a caregiver and a robot already have to be close. How soon does it become cheaper for an insurance plan to just cover the costs of a robot?
- Interesting profile of Squadron Barkley. Was not aware of that side of Barkley.
- Removing phones from the classroom truly is a bi-partisan issue. In the age of AI I'd include teachers in that ban too.
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- The importance of Vitamin D.
- President Trump's fight against the Pulitzer Board. Used to be the rule when a source lied to a journalist the journalist was free to burn that source or it became assumed the journalist was part of the lie. That may be the case here.
- Jonathan Turley: Marco Rubio declares war on the global censors. Agree 100%.
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- Sen Josh Hawley on Meta (Facebook) and China.
- VDH with 10 Tariff Questions Never Asked. He's not wrong.
- German editor sentenced and fined for satirical picture of Interior Minister. The people who sentenced him were only following orders,
- From the archive: Navigating within your circle of competence.
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- Glenn Reynolds: The route continues, but be ready for the counterattack. Like Sherman's historic race to the sea - Trump is having a historic race through the federal bureaucracy.
- Bring back the draft (well sort of). Not a fan of a draft but can't fault the argument here.
- A DC court sanctions climate scientist Michael Mann and his lawyers for misconduct.
- Matt Taibbi's interview of FIRE's counsel Tyler Coward. Long but interesting read.
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- Bill Belichick and UNC to be featured on this season's Hard Knocks. No NFL team volunteered for the show so Belichick gets the chance to turn this into a recruiting too.
- VDH: Who Caused the Counter-Revolution?
- Glenn Reynolds: Reigning in the District Courts. Sounds like a good idea.
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- How the US Government controls Ukraine's media. "Instead of watchdogs, they became guard dogs." Wow!
- K9 Hurricane, the most decorated dog in US history, has died.
- When bystanders film crimes. Questions we have all asked.
- What it means to be a free speech absolutist. Interesting history lesson.
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- Why cutting government spending is so tough in the first place. Sadly true.
- The USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) got bumped (ugly). I agree both that it's worrying that a new low-tech targeting method may have been revealed and that even if they are targets we need more aircraft carriers.
- The leadership grace of coach Buzz Williams. Good advice!
- Jonathan Turley: Critics prove Vance's point on anti-free speech movement. The pro free speech message needs to be repeated as often and as loudly as possible.
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- Israel's Iron Prime Minister
- Michael Shermer: Free Speech and Theater Fires. Even Oliver Wendell Homes Jr. later said his quote was wrong.
- Colorado Springs artist appeals rejection of trademark over AI art.
- Why satellites are finding more Mayan ruins than ever before. (HT Borepatch)
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- FIRE probably underestimates how badly universities are burning.
- Churchill Endures by Michael Mandelbaum. (HT Execupundit)
- California Bill requires all new cars to beep if going 10 MPH over the speed limit. This will kill sales of new cars in the state if the law remains.
- Democrats aren't creating disorder; they're preserving it.
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- Bari Weiss: Dark Tunnels and Moral Beacons. Morning the deaths of 6 Israeli hostages brutally killed.
- Mathbabe Blog. Periodic math-related content that I'm going to check out. Can't vouch for the quality - but like I said wanted to check it out.
- Glenn Reynolds with some thoughts on Labor Day
- Government censorship and the war on free speech. Reminder that Kamala Harris's campaign manager was one of the ones in charge of government censorship in the Biden-Harris administration.
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- From the archive: Thomas Sowell's 3 questions. Good practice to be in.
- John Fetterman has no regrets. Interesting (but longish) profile of a guy who could become the face of a new Democratic Party or is one step away from saying he's an Independent.
- Jonathan Turley on the EU declaring war on free speech in the US. People should boycott traveling to Europe in favor of traveling to US states instead in response to this attack on our "indispensable right." Tourism from America to the EU is big business.
- Biden accused of abuse of power, obstruction in blistering House Republican impeachment report. Not new details but still kind of chilling to see this all documented in one place.
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- Supreme Court strikes down Biden/Harris Title IX stance. Big win for biological females.
- Social media and smart phones in schools.
- Elon Musk, X, and Free Speech must be protected. People used to value free speech - what happened?
- On price controls. Or as Kamala Harris calls it "price gauging," (HT Steve Layman)
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- The Comic Books Script Archive. Probably spend hours here. (HT Tim Ferriss)
- Jonathan Turley: A Harris-Walz administration would be a disaster for free speech. A woman who claims to be black and a man who claims to be a combat veteran want to be in charge of what you are allowed to say.
- Even Tim Walz' National Guard chaplain calls him "cowardly." Wow!
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- There was never a Beepocalypse
- Trillions in tax dollars hasn't made wind or solar power better or less expensive. Time for nuclear power!
- Unscientific American. Haven't even looked at the magazine in years. Long time ago they went from writing about science to writing garbage.
- Two sets of free-speech on college campuses. You can fly a Palestinian flag on college campus but not a Confederate one and you can scream "kill the Jews" but not mutter the lyrics of a popular song that says the N-word.
