The Jackpot Blog

Medieval hygiene, Elmore Leonard, civility and college admissions, AI coding slows you down (study), Google’s AI slop.

Today’s Water Cooler: James Galbraith on the Big Beautiful Bill, latest on Trump and Epstein, and Covid dashboards in sorry shape.

Word of the Day: Contrite. “Contrite is a formal adjective used to describe someone who feels regret for their bad behavior, or something, such as an apology, that shows such regret.”

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Still with birdsong!

“The Rendered Worlds,” the Gini Index, world’s largest string orchestra, against self-optimization, erasure poem.

EPA Endangerment finding, Texas flies, human relationships, vegetarianism, everybody hates a tourist 🎶

Walmart cake decorators, the world’s happiest city, wild animal markets, Anthony Bourdain