Yikes!

A shocking discovery out of a Baltimore City high school, where Project Baltimore has found hundreds of students are failing. youtube.com/watch

Fascinating

This new Linux distro is breaking the law, by design… youtube.com/watch

Fascinating

Why People Label Themselves as Neurodivergent with Edward Dutton youtube.com/watch

Fascinating. Speech policing.

Free Speech Shouldn’t Need Elite Approval - Matt Taibbi youtube.com/watch

“Where are my poor desperate cheap fieldworkers?”

This Idaho Farmer Is Running Her Farm Like A SLAVE Plantation youtube.com/watch

Fascinating

Straight to the Point: FBI’s Secret Targeting of Team Trump youtube.com/watch

Men are afraid of men too. We read rooms, clock threats, cross streets—we do the same calculus women do. Women aren’t being paranoid. They’re being accurate. We rarely admit it, but we already know exactly why they choose the bear. We’d probably make the same call.

Jes Grew doesn’t ask your permission. Winston Napier taught me that. This is thirty years late and still reporting symptoms. open.substack.com/pub/chris…

Does this also mean celibacy? Or is hooking up a cutout that doesn’t count?

Globally, the number of single people is on the rise. Rates of marriage and cohabitation are on the decline, and in some countries, even sex itself is down. youtube.com/watch

Fascinating

The debunkers absolutely destroy gun buy backs youtube.com/watch

Fascinating.

In the most insane turn of events, the left has been funding the very racism they are fighting. youtube.com/watch

“Broken brag” is the mirror of humble brag—competitive suffering dressed as confession. The brokenness is the credential. The bottom is the trophy. Russell Brand’s thousand women aren’t a confession. They’re a résumé. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/broken-…

Might Makes Right, and Other Things Nobody Will Say at the University in Bamberg I spent the morning on Threads getting lectured by a German about American imperialism. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/might-m…

The only reason America has national parks is “not worth it yet.”

Fascinating. Must read.

The conservatives finally got their populist victory for middle-American working-class voters. The result is more federal spending, more federal power, and Israel-first foreign policy.  pca.st/episode/1…

I coined a new term today: broken brag. It’s what happens when the war stories eat the meeting. Russell Brand, twelve-step rooms, and why it doesn’t matter whether Brand is faking it. open.substack.com/pub/chris…

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Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on charges that the organization used millions of dollars in donations to leaders of hate groups it claimed to be fighting. www.nbcnews.com/politics/…

Thanks to my buddy Dan for adding this perfect thing to my daily driver. I do want to believe. I’m not a stickers on laptops guy—except for this one.

Did you know “gonorrhea” comes from Greek for “flow of seed”? Ancient doctors saw the discharge and mistakenly thought it was semen loss. So yes, the name of the STI is basically a 2,000-year-old medical misunderstanding that never got corrected.

Looking good on this Velcro scuba strap on this 2010 Marathon Pilot’s Navigator which isn’t at all a diver but has fixed lugs so a pass through like this makes a lot of sense. There’s a spring in the clasp which means the strap expands and contacts, keeping snug but not binding or restricting.