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- Learning that Ron Desantis is firing staff because his polling sucks is a decent start to the week.
- This weekend's heat wave across the country had me thinking again about that fucking Extrapolations show. As oil companies renew on promises to cut emissions, I can't help but laugh at how even that show was probably way too conservative in their predictions about the awfulness of the people who run these things. They had this part set in 2037!
- This oped from over the weekend is funny because it's so obvious. I appreciate an actual federal judge weighing in on the Supreme Court's complete lack of a sense of ethics. His fixation on the "smell" of corruption is weird, but he is completely correct in saying that it's not enough to simply stay within the lines. You should stay way within the lines if you have this kind of power. Unfortunately, we lack the political will to hold those accountable who step over the lines.
- Apple News is trying so hard to make me use them for sports scores and news, but the service sucks. It really feels like they know they need sports to be relevant in the news space, but that no one there actually understands what people want. I get push notifications to follow a game that Apple knows I can not watch or even follow using their service. It's annoying and something they should fix if they hope to stand a chance.
- Related: Apple News is poorly curated in general. For instance, I get an awful lot of West Virginia University sports news because I follow the topic "Mountaineering." I also got a great tutorial on five different variations of the exercise "mountain climbers" because I follow "mountain climbing." It feels really lazy and that's the opposite of what I expect from Apple.
- We spent the weekend in Ashland, Oregon. We go once or twice each year for the weekend to see some plays. This weekend we saw a rendition of Romeo and Juliet that was set in, basically, Oakland, California during the recession of the late-00s and early-10s. It was really well done. It might be the best play I've seen there since I started going in 2017.