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Republicans have hated Head Start since Lyndon Johnson signed it into law in 1965, and for good reason: it gives those people's children a fighting chance to keep up with their wealthier, whiter peers. Since we can't have that, the OAFPOTUS's droogs have proposed quietly dismantling the program by eliminating most of the regulations that make it work. In other words, since they can't actually kill Head Start without a noisy Congressional debate, they're just going to make it impossible to function, like...

I just launched v1.0.9713 of this application, and you probably won't notice the minor UI changes that it contains. The really huge part of this release is the work I did over the past several days building out a suite of import classes from a prototype so that I could import a ton of data spanning almost five decades.

Méteo France reported this morning that July 2026 was the hottest and one of the driests months since France started keeping records in 1900:

This week's Economist looks at the economics of procrastination:

Meet Captain Lenny Klinger of the 12-meter motorboat Sea No Evil. On Saturday July 18th, Captain Klinger took his little boat out on Lake Michigan, during an active Beach Hazards Statement (meaning waves were unusually high at local beaches), with a forecast 50% chance of thunderstorms between 11am and 4pm.

Disc 1; US broadcast order; 1.1-1.6

"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live."

The Inner Drive Technology Journal v1.0.9708 is here, with a dozen or so significant security and performance tweaks that came out of the Claude Fable 5 review I undertook a couple of weeks ago. Just opening the Edit page to create this post showed me how much faster and cleaner the application is, so I'm glad I spent the time (34 hours, give or take) and several hundred thousand Claude tokens getting this done.