July 19, 2022
[Larry David did not respond to a request for comment.]
Has Alan Dershowitz been canceled? Alan Dershowitz certainly thinks so. The New Yorker's legendary fact checkers, however, are unable to confirm the claims he made in his interview with Isaac Chotiner. [more inside]
“[A] gigayacht is the most expensive item [you can] own.”
In Evan Osnos’s latest dispatch for The New Yorker, he reminds us that the super rich are different from you and I by looking at the current booming yacht economy: “The Haves and The Have-Yachts”
[T]hese shrines to excess capital exist in a conditional state of visibility: they are meant to be unmistakable to a slender stratum of society—and all but unseen by everyone else… In a candid aside to a French documentarian, the American yachtsman Bill Duker said, “If the rest of the world learns what it’s like to live on a yacht like this, they’re gonna bring back the guillotine.”
RIP Eric Flint (1947-1632-2022)
Alternate-history author, labor organizer, and creator of the Baen Free Library Eric Flint has passed away at the age of 75. [more inside]
europe on the boil
The Met Office has confirmed that the UK has reached 40C (104F) for the first time since records began. The record for overnight temperatures was also broken with 25.9C (79F) recorded. Meanwhile, fires are ravaging France and Spain, with many thousands having to abandon their homes, and the death tolls are rising as the temperature soars. The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, has once more warned that humanity is in a global crisis.
40 years of short documentaries from Spain
A video showing how rope was made before modern machines (spanish, with english subtitles) leads down a rabbit hole. [more inside]
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