Paul Krugman:

"When officers of a company or people close to them exploit confidential information for personal financial gain, that’s (illegal) insider trading. But we have another word for situations in which people with access to confidential info regarding national security exploit that info for profit. That word is “treason.”

There’s a broader lesson here: You can’t trust a corrupt govt to protect national security. And our govt is now utterly corrupt."

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/treason-in-the-futures-markets?r=4bv4c
#UsPol

Today’s Calvin & Hobbes rerun.

Watterson never could have imagined the level of interesting things would get.

*When the palace-intrigue about the device is more interesting than the device.

https://ericmigi.com/blog/re-introducing-the-pebble-appstore

In advance of the fall OS releases, here's a little song about Liquid Glass.

Only about 90 seconds long—I hope it will bring a smile.

If you enjoy it, please boost!

https://youtu.be/iNRE2dPdPdw?si=EE9PuSiKFvKgYeDr

Just had to upgrade my solo instance of hosted Mastodon from the smallest plan (est. 5 active users) to the next size (est. 20 active users), due to database storage exhaustion.

I’m still happy to pay someone else to deal with Ruby, and it’s certainly worth $9/month…

…and I’m also happy when it happens, but this is totally the fault of the network effects of the occasional @pluralistic boost. (-;