All rumors are fake news until officially denied.

My via negativa heuristic: these are the book you can avoid reading. Also merge with the NYT list. Journos are so interested in noise they never detect #Lindy books.

Jimmy Mac on… Train Station Pubs.

Since Congress received the $9.4 billion rescissions package from the White House on June 3, the federal government has spent an additional $170 billion. The deficit has grown by nearly $50 billion, which means the cuts would have to be 5x larger just to keep up over nine days.

We should build buildings with beautiful details like this.

Absence of skin in the game means you can survive being wrong all your life.

(2043, Lindsay Graham, being kept alive by stem cells extracted from the testicles of 5 year olds) of course the war with Iran was a mistake. We all know that. Qatar is different. They don’t let gay people drive

"In order to make a decision you need to focus on the consequences (which you can know) rather than the probability (which you can’t know) is the central idea of uncertainty." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Free agent forward Joe Ingles intends to sign a one-year, $3.6 million deal to return to the Minnesota Timberwolves, sources tell ESPN. Wolves officials negotiated the deal with Mark Bartelstein of Priority Sports to bring Ingles back for his 12th NBA season.

Italy court sends 11 executives at a chemical plant to jail terms of up to 17 years for polluting water, a total of more than 141 years. Puts UK to shame. UK buries corporate crimes - water, Post Office, Grenfell, infected blood, bank frauds. france24.com/en/live-news/2…

you're sheltering AI researchers, are you not? you're sheltering them in the technical staff, aren't you?

Can we check that Lions line out for obstruction? #WARvLIO

Paul Williams should not referee at this level again. Clearly out of his depth. #WARvLIO

World rugby and this TMO shit will be and is the reason rugby is going to die #WARvLIO

My first time meeting Axl Rose, at my age you don’t get to meet many legends, seriously an utter gentleman

The triple lock has cost around 3x more than expected. In our central projection, the triple lock explains 1.6pts of the 2.7% of GDP rise in state pension spending. If recent volatility persists, it could add a further 1.5pts; a steadier path could reduce it by 1.3pts.

Apparently £600m is being spent on this giant lump. The best part of a billion pounds to make London uglier. What a depressing misallocation of treasure.

Nathan Cleary at Origin level