A SOUPED UP GIANT SUV? 2026 Nissan Armada NISMO First Look: 460 HP and a Ton of Badging? Sign Us Up.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: We’ve Been Running a Successful, Years-Long Experiment On What Happens When You Arm School Teachers and Staff.

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: 3 long-shot ways of solving the global baby bust: God, AI, and space offer better odds than government nudges and subsidies.

CREATIVE DESTRUCTION? Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models: Company hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”

This was a plot device in, I think, Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash. Or was it one of his others?

UPDATE: I think I’m wrong about Stephenson. Was it Vernor Vinge’s Rainbows End?

ANOTHER UPDATE: Grok says that’s it. “In Vernor Vinge’s novel Rainbows End (2006), set in a near-future 2025, there is a depiction of a major corporation engaging in a destructive book-scanning process as part of the ‘Librareome Project.’ This project involves digitizing vast collections of books by shredding them and scanning the pieces, a process that is portrayed as highly efficient but controversial due to its destruction of physical books. This is described in a darkly comedic scene where the physical books are fed into a shredder-like machine, with cameras capturing the fragments to reassemble the content digitally.”

Rainbows End seems to be coming true right on schedule. Here’s the podcast interview Helen and I did with him back in 2006.

NOT FOR LONG WITH RFK, JR. ON THE JOB: Study: 1 in 5 U.S. food, drink products contain synthetic dyes.

YES, IT IS.

This is a good point. https://t.co/GuMiTR0w2e

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) June 25, 2025

MASSIVE RESISTANCE: In fourth undercover video, group highlights ‘sneaky’ DEI at UNC Wilmington. “Two administrators at the University of North Carolina Wilmington are under investigation after they discussed how some diversity, equity and inclusion concepts are embedded on campus despite a systemwide ban on the ideology, according to a recently released video filmed surreptitiously.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University of Wisconsin funds student group with $136k to distribute sex toys and ‘interactive’ programming.

TO BE FAIR, MATH IS NOW WHITE SUPREMACIST: Democrat Trots Out Placard in House Hearing With a Glaring Math Error.

PUSH THEM BACK INTO THE SEA: Socialism Wins Its American Normandy: Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral primary opens a new era in American crazy.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY — NO, REALLY. Personal Income up 8 times inflation.

DON’T GET TOO FULL OF YOURSELVES, LADIES. On the other hand, don’t feel too bad, this happened to the insufferable U.S. team too. Paging Riley Gaines: ‘World’s Sexiest Footballer,’ Swiss Women Lose 7-1 to 14-year-old boys. “Switzerland’s women’s national football team, including Alisha Lehmann who was voted ‘World’s sexiest footballer’, suffered a crushing 7-1 defeat against FC Luzern’s Under-15 boys’ side during their preparations for Euro 2025. . . . The embarrassing result emerged after footage from the behind-closed-doors friendly was accidentally posted on TikTok by one of the teenage players. The video garnered approximately 70,000 views before being removed from the platform.”

OVERTURNING REYNOLDS V. SIMS AND BAKER V. CARR — two cases that have no constitutional basis other than the predilections of the Warren Court — should be a priority.

Reynolds v Sims ruined this country https://t.co/aJfGhVjR9g

— Liberrocky (@liberrocky) June 25, 2025

Upstate New Yorkers live in a de facto vassal district. Ditto rural Coloradans. Southern Illinois same.

If the cities aren’t dealt with, that’s the fate of every red county in America. https://t.co/NbOWuYqznZ

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) June 25, 2025

Also, I’ve written about Intrastate Secession before.

DAVE FRIEDMAN: The Energy Layer of the AI Stack: AI’s scaling ceiling isn’t algorithms. It’s megawatts, metallurgy, and lead times.

A lot of people’s mental model of AI is something like Facebook. It’s probably closer to something like SpaceX or Tesla. I agree on “go nuclear or go home” when it comes to meeting AI power demands.

JOHN LUCAS: New York Accelerates Toward the Cliff: But the Lightbringer cometh.

MATT TAIBBI: Optimism: The Last Taboo.

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Fourth Axiom Space private astronaut mission launched to ISS.

On a SpaceX Crew Dragon, of course.

THIS SEEMS UNFAIR: Semen Allergies Aren’t Rare After All (And Yes, Men Have Them Too). Especially for the men who are allergic to their own semen.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Smoking may speed cognitive decline.

THERE ARE NEWER DRUGS ON THE WAY THAT DON’T TO THIS: Studies exploring muscle loss from GLP-1 drugs.

I’d like to see a medication that combines fat loss with myostatin inhibition to promote muscle growth. And apparently there’s one on the way!

So Americans will be skinny and hot. And no doubt leftists will complain.

#JOURNALISM: The NYT warns on “proactive peeing.”

FLASHBACK: Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital.

FLASHBACK: Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital.

CHANGE: The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun.