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we’re being warned of rolling blackouts in Texas in this hottest-ever summer, yet somehow the Bitcoin scammers are profiting off of it. beyond infuriating: ERCOT Paid Bitcoin Miner $31 Million to Conserve While Texans Sweat

I’ve listened to a lot of Jimmy Buffett in my life, thanks to my older brothers, but the one track I’ve kept & listened to the most over the years is this masterpiece shaggy-dog story: God’s Own Drunk. sit back with a margarita or a cerveza and give this a listen 🎵 Rest in peace, Jimmy

new Tiny Desk Concert by Speedy Ortiz, featuring a song from each of their four albums (including their newest, out today: Rabbit Rabbit) 🎵

I was the best at being second place
but now I’m just the runner-up

American hero Megan Rapinoe, in The Atlantic ⚽️

I’ll miss being able to represent our country. I think, a lot of times, that gets lost, when people talk about me in particular: Oh, you guys don’t sing the anthem, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You don’t love America. But we do love America. It’s just more in a James Baldwin kind of way, not in a bald-eagle-on-your-shoulder kind of way.

read: Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea 📚. wonderful for its fascinating depiction of little-known World War II history (American Red Cross Clubmobiles). it did sag a little for me in a couple of spots, but especially given the (somewhat) biographical aspects, I recommend it

There was occasionally a little fierceness in his demeanour, but it was directed chiefly against false opinion, of which there is so much to correct in the world that a man of some reading and experience necessarily has his patience tried.

- Middlemarch, on Borthrop Trumbull

this cop culture bullshit alert triggered late last night, and again early this morning. I’m sorry you were shot, sheriff’s deputy 170 miles away in Houston, but I am not going to jump up & join the manhunt (plus it’s an “emergency alert” so I can’t even disable these)

cheers, big brother 🍺

WaPo: Fans waited 31 years for his next novel. It’s finally here. my brother was one of those fans: he was so looking forward to this book. unfortunately today, on the very date of its publication, he succumbed to the cancer he’s been fighting for a little over a year. RIP, Mike.

in the 2nd World Cup game for today, another team in white & blue vs. an underdog in red, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 is showing how it’s done after just 4 minutes. hard to imagine the US 🇺🇸 lifting the trophy with performances like today’s (all due credit to Portugal 🇵🇹, who played great) ⚽️

RIP, Sinéad

but I will rise
and I will return
the phoenix from the flame
I have learned
I will rise
and you’ll see me return
being what I am
there is no other Troy
for me to burn

- Troy, a favorite song from The Lion and the Cobra, a favorite album, start to finish 🎵

bookmarked: Guardian Experts’ Network Women’s World Cup 2023: “A unique collaboration between some of the world’s best media outlets, bringing a local flavour and expertise to our coverage of the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand” ⚽️ good previews of NZL 🇳🇿 & NOR 🇳🇴 so far

pretty clever: asimov – “Automatically exclude development dependencies from Apple Time Machine backups”. claims to have saved me ~20GB in skipped node_modules directories

happy Juneteenth! it’s a great day to buy some music from Bandcamp:

June 19 (midnight to midnight, Pacific Time US) is our annual Juneteenth fundraiser, where we donate 100% of our share of sales* to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to support their ongoing efforts to promote racial justice through litigation, advocacy, and public education.

(full details) 🎵

I love this Onion article maybe a little too much: New World Order Holds Annual Meeting At Indianapolis Marriott

“…it’s both affordable and in a nice central location,” said Illuminati organizer [name redacted], noting that the Marriott’s business center had high-speed Wi-Fi, printing services, and a fax machine

I just backed the Kickstarter for Jenn Champion’s next record, The Last Night of Sadness. if you don’t know her, check out Carissa’s Wierd, or her solo music, and see what you think 🎵

I hereby call for a halt to development of all AI-related technologies until the following are resolved:

1. MS-DOS linefeeds (aka carriage returns, aka \rs) are banished from computers forever
2. markdown is available everywhere
3. progress bars show even vaguely accurate progress (looking at you, MacOS)

RIP, Andy Rourke, “the other melodic genius in the Smiths” 🎵

on Barbarism Begins at Home, regularly held up as the greatest example of Rourke’s playing in the Smiths’ oeuvre, he plays writhingly funky slap bass