ME. IT’S ME. There’s One Predator That Terrifies Bears And Mountain Lions Alike.

CALL AN EXTERMINATOR: Tick Found in Austin Apartment Linked to Rare Relapsing Fever.

A FRIEND WRITES:

There has never been a time where the asymmetries of risk so favor living for the moment. Either AI will bring a Golden Age, in which case all your planning, preparing for and worrying about the future will be pointless. Or it will bring doom, in which case all your planning, preparing for and worrying about the future will be pointless.

There’s very, very little chance of something in between. There’s very, very little chance that all your planning, preparing and worrying about the future will make a difference. Live for now for once, without guilt for doing so. Work less. Save less. Plan less. Enjoy family and friends and nature more. Focus on relationships. Focus on shadow work. Focus on love.

I kinda like this, but I’m not convinced the future — at least the next two or three decades — is as binary as all that. People almost always overestimate the short term impact of technological revolutions and underestimate the long-term impact. The crowd that thinks that jobs will disappear by 2030 or 2035 is, I think, in the former category.

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ALIVE: Mitch McConnell released from rehabilitation center after June fall.

WHY HOLD THEM BACK? Mamdani Booed Off Stage As Cops Hold Back Furious Crowd. Let him experience a “no police” world.

WELL, IT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL: US District Court in Texas Rules That With $200 Tax Gone, NFA Registration is Unconstitutional.

KILLER: Florida Python Challenge winner slayed 96 snakes: Veteran hunter Tom Rahill has battled the invasive species for over 10 years.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: What can scientists learn from a stray SpaceX rocket hitting the Moon?

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“FOLLOW THE SCIENCE.” SF museum to bring back COVID-era rule despite lack of scientific support.

FIRST IT WAS PENIS ENLARGEMENT FOR SKI JUMPERS, now there’s this: Padded bra row erupts with Tour de France Femmes riders to face extra clothing checks.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Declining enrollment forces PSU to slash two departments, lay off staffers amid $35M budget crunch.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Largest faculty union abandons 110 years of neutrality, backs winning socialist.

THEY TOLD US HIGHER EDUCATION WOULD IMPROVE OUR DEMOCRACY:

Abdul El Sayed won ZERO of the 15 counties with the lowest share of college degrees in his Michigan primary. ZERO. pic.twitter.com/F3YIepbBOV

— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) August 6, 2026

Related:

Possibly the funniest sentence I've read in a while though I'm not sure I've fully grokked the depths of it yet https://t.co/fWtvpp7ZXP

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) August 6, 2026

DON SURBER: Groomers lose in Florida court.

TIME TO GLOBALIZE THE RECONQUISTA: Abdul El-Sayed Socializes the Intifada: Hamas-adjacent Left marches on as Democratic establishment fails in Michigan.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Columbia Dean Who Praised Man Who Tortured Women Now Welcomes ‘Journalist in Residence’ Scott Pelley.

HE SHALL BE KNOWN AS “LITTLE MAN SAYED” FROM NOW ON.

Sen. Fetterman fires back at Abdul El-Sayed,

“Oh, yeah. The tough guy… He called me ugly and then I should be on a pike and I’m like, chief, I own mirrors. I know I’m an ugly guy… He has like a really, like a little man syndrome kind of energy.”pic.twitter.com/DrwdTU9rNZ

— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) August 5, 2026

TOTALLY NORMAL AND SENSIBLE, ACTUALLY:

I was there when it happened. Nothing bizarre about it. And the Steelers fans loved every moment.

— Rob Bluey (@RobertBluey) August 5, 2026

THE JUDENFREI PARTY:

At what point does it become official Democrat policy that American Jews don't belong in the Democrat party?

I think we're basically there, right?

Are American Jews listening? https://t.co/IRUlqhcCmS

— RBe (@RBPundit) August 5, 2026

BUT OF COURSE:

This is wild. Howard Bryant, the writer trying to smear Sophie Cunningham as "anti-trans and anti-black," was arrested for choking his white wife, then assaulting a police officer, and then blamed his arrest on — wait for it — racism. https://t.co/YBTmVpY39n pic.twitter.com/NnNi0LIzEJ

— Bobby Burack (@burackbobby_) August 4, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

OUR INCESTUOUS MEDIA:

Show of hands how many of you knew Stephen Colbert's daughter worked for 60 minutes and CBS News? https://t.co/u61x0BRDXo

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) August 5, 2026