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A salmonella outbreak linked to cucumbers has sickened at least 45 people across 18 states, health officials said Friday and they warned that the number of people infected was likely higher.

Not good. Hate to know this first hand after an old friend took their life over it, but ketamine over use long term is very bad for the kidneys. Severe pain among other issues, including hallucinations. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

And real incomes have picked up again recently.

been saying this for like 3 years now, the core constituency of the "manosphere" is not Gen Z or teenage boys, it is 35-55 year old dudes who wish they were still teenage boys

Hmmm bsky.app/profile/wire...

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I couldn’t accept it for most of my life, but as I breach 40 and live closer to the North Pole, socks with Birkenstock-adjacent sandals is comfortable and functional against cold surfaces. The Croc is its cousin from Tallahassee.

The 🌮 joke feels like a chink in the armor finally getting through. The more the veneer of “the winner” fades the deeper it spirals. The arc bending a bit.

Trade courts are the highest in the land. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Big deal on the retaliatory trade front. www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cnbc...

Who knew the TACO truck on every corner was going to be about the 90 trade deals in 90 days.

Getting tapped to run an org, failing miserably, then being able to slink away is truly being committed to the anti-DEI cause.

Anna’s hummingbirds have evolved to have longer, larger beaks to access backyard feeders in urban areas. It could be a step toward becoming a “commensal” species that lives alongside humans, like pigeons. www.wired.com/story/hummin...

Hopefully the pensions pull the rug before it’s too late too.

This one goes out to BlueSky.

There's an idea in the inflation story that we're all victims of higher prices. There's also evidence we were all eager to test pricing dynamics through job or store or offering. Necessity is a fair baseline for adjustment, but discovery isn't anchored to the PCE.

To corroborate, paper goes through real-time impacts of tariffs on prices, giving about a two month lead time. www.federalreserve.gov/econres/note... My guess was we’d see prices start with back to school goods in July.

Bluesky has a tough go as one of the few places you can get real information about the state of affairs. Because those affairs aren’t great, it makes the place exhausting to wade through. Most others are head in sand or straight denial. I’ve been busy plus tired of the depressing flood of info.

Current state of vibe coding 🚀

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

“In this environment, we drop the rigs and buy back stock,” said Travis Stice, chief executive officer at Diamondback Energy, which recently warned investors US oil production has probably peaked. “Every single conversation I’ve had is that this oil price won’t work. www.ft.com/content/2ca6...

Don't look now but Waymo's had 708,000 paid driverless rides in California in March. Data: @californiapuc.bsky.social

Another chance to update my charts on US trade policy uncertainty www.policyuncertainty.com/us_monthly.h...

Fullback is Rick Ross on Devil in a New Dress

People will be like I love the trades, college isn’t for everyone after all. Then only think about plumbers.

It's also a misunderstanding of what the grants are for. It's not a billion dollar donation, Harvard won the grants to do specific research that it is in a relatively unique position to do. Trade schools aren't going to be able to take over, eg, Harvard's cancer immunotherapy research.

Lumber market is basically done for the season. Spring pop (enhanced by the tariff hype) is behind us. I’ll look to buy again around July 4. Housing and lumber are now a 2026 story. Talk next year. Thx.

1930 Ford Model A pickup. These were the output of the assembly line and beginning of the broader auto supply chain. Ford made the cars affordable via productivity and standardization. This lifted the demand base, needing more supply. Jobs. BYD comes to mind doing this. Vs merely changing to EV.

Hearing another tariff threat being diluted.

www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...

I asked Gemini to describe then depict what it thinks Grok looks like

Globalization did this

I may paint this one.

On the couch watching the kids after being out all weekend.

Going to where April the Giraffe made her fame. Will report back.

One of the vehicles used to drop our new local high school prom dates off was a Peterbuilt from a dairy farm pulling a grain hopper. Incredible flex.

What's most unsettling as these models advance is staring at a screen for minutes that has "Thinking..." undulate while you wait patiently.

Do you treat the three day weekend as three separate days or two Saturdays and a Sunday?

We’re at a point liberals are also quoting Reagan.