Is it just me, or is 20th greatest a rather low ranking for Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra?

Terrible appointment.

When my father was a boy, he sometimes worked on a dairy farm owned by an Italian fellow, an immigrant named Lou Cure. (When I was a little boy, my grandfather made deliveries for Lou, and would leave a bottle of cold chocolate milk just for me, on our front doorstep.) The Cure dairy farm was a small but strong business. Its customers were spread out in a 10-15 mile radius, though there were other dairies in the same area, doing the same kind of thing at the same scale. One of them, Kelly's Creamery, brought cartons of milk to us kids in school in our town. On St. Patrick's Day, Mr. Kelly himself would make the delivery, with his hair dyed green. Anyway, Lou Cure's farm was located in an area with plenty of cold springs. I remember that my father used to stop at one of them sometimes with a gallon jug, to get the best water in the county. I don't know whether that spring still exists. But Mr. Cure would store his milk overnight in wells he had dug, fed by the springs. The temperature of that water was a steady 35-40 degrees, very cold. All of his customers were happy, till along came the state's food administration. This was in the late 1960's, if I remember right. They told him that he had to buy big stainless steel holding tanks to store his milk in. It was highly doubtful that the tanks would keep the milk any cooler than his wells already did, but the regulation was the regulation. Mr. Cure was getting up in years, and he couldn't afford the tanks, which he thought were pointless anyway. So he shut down. My father said that big businesses get together with regulators in government to write regulations ostensibly to benefit the public, but the immediate and irreversible effect is to put their smaller competitors out of business. I might also remark, now, that if you want Safety and Security at All Costs, or perhaps the appearance of it, you MUST wed yourself to the Bigs: but if you detest the Bigs, you must be willing to take your chances, as liberty demands.

This ruling is really good. Why? The process is still early and, as such, is in a phase where the antibodies are just emerging and starting to ramp. We haven’t seen a crescendo yet but it’s coming. It is akin to the adrenaline fueled fight/flight response of a trapped animal. So, through that lens, this lawsuit is just the tip of the iceberg. The next few weeks and months will be about trying every way, shape and form possible to keep the status quo in place. But in doing so, the Deep Sate actors, their enablers, their sources of capital and their methods will be exposed. By having this fight in the open, there is a very good chance of educating the American people about what is actually going on and, as a result, making the changes last. This will be the real legacy of DJT, Elon and DOGE.

"Kids over 13 have the right to make their own decisions about their mental health care. Parents don't have the right to have notice, they don't have the right to have consent about that" - Washington State Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen (D)

Reporter: When prices will actually start coming down? White House Karoline Leavitt: President is doing everything he can to reduce the cost of living crisis... that is why he signed a litany of executive orders.

I once taught a tracked class of 8th grade boys at the lowest levels of reading and writing. By the end of the year all but one boy passed both the reading and writing state tests. I loved teaching that class. I was able to plan with their specific needs and interests.

I saw this in my freshman composition classes Many of the students were poor readers — but they could decode fluently I know because I tested each one individually The issue was vocabulary L2 research shows that to read fluently you need to know 98% of the words My students knew as few as 80% Reading English for them was like reading French & Spanish for me I can do it, but it’s not fun & I miss half the meaning

Turns out that instead of scraping the web to train an AI, you can just scrape the AI that scraped the web. @naval

Copywriting, 101 1. Find the problem you solve 2. Find 7 reasons it's a problem 3. Find 7 benefits solving it unlocks Then, position your product as the solution to the problems, so that users can unlock the benefits. A dead-simple formula: "Finally solve X so you can Y"

there are many traits like an appreciation for beauty, an inclination towards being kind and empathetic, curiosity, playfulness, a desire for adventure, a preference for truth, that you think are universal to the human race & then you grow up and find out that’s like 5% of people