"... new review of 15 years of research concludes that the evidence of its benefits is often weak or inconclusive, and that nearly 30 percent of medical cannabis patients meet criteria for cannabis use disorder." nytimes.com/2025/12/12/hea…

"Gaslighting is just one of the 'therapy-speak' terms that couples therapists told me their clients are misusing, typically after seeing descriptions of the ideas on social media." theatlantic.com/family/2025/12…

"Foreign exporters absorb only about 4% of the tariff burden—the remaining 96% is passed through to US buyers. Using shipment-level data covering over 25 million transactions valued at nearly $4 trillion, we find near-complete pass-through of tariffs to US import prices."

My presentation about the past and future of the American telephone network given on 6 Mar at socallinuxexpo/AstriCon 2026 in Pasadena, CA. I'm sure a recording will be forthcoming relatively soon, but in the meantime, here are my slides. scribd.com/document/10099…

"... we are trapped with a berserk brontosaurus peddling vehement ignorance." tinabrown.substack.com/p/trumps-wild-…

"Veterans who were already questioning the war’s strategy and endgame, he added, were unnerved to find the nation’s highest office posting pop-music-scored clips of missile strikes, mixed with footage from Call of Duty and 'SpongeBob SquarePants.'" msn.com/en-us/news/us/…

"The daily montage typically runs for about two minutes, sometimes longer, the officials said. One described each daily video as a series of clips of 'stuff blowing up.'" nbcnews.com/politics/white…