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I spread sunshine and dispel myths.

Medicaid is vastly misunderstood. Much of it goes to hospitals, kept afloat by it. Most importantly, nearly 2/3 of residence of nursing homes in America are there because of Medicaid. The huge cuts taking effect next year will cause hospital closings and mayhem for seniors.

true story: the japanese word "ramen" was first recorded in 1947, a borrowing of the chinese lamein, as a direct result of american rations consisting primarily of wheat that black marketeers made into noodles. this and more Sandwich Facts in today's column: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

Notable Sandwiches #145: Yakisoba-Pan

Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I slip messily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, a...

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I saw a video from a recovering alcoholic. He talked about how he used to buy rounds of drinks all the time. It wasn't generosity. He was trying to get everyone else hammered so he wouldn't feel so guilty and awkward about being sloshed himself. I feel like similar happens with some AI pushers.

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

The first three towers of the Sen̓áḵw in Vancouver. A major Indigenous-led, multi-tower residential and commercial development project by the Squamish Nation located on ancestral reserve land. Meaning "the place inside the head of False Creek."

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Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

Chart showing solar panel exports from China (the main solar panel maker by a long shot) growing steadily & mightily from 2018 through 2026, then spiking by almost 2x in March 2026.