Thrilled to announce my 1st book! "The Nuclear Club" examines world affairs from Hiroshima to 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to demonstrate how the club consolidated authority via a counter-revolution that legitimated wars of choice a/g rogue states. sup.org/books/title/?id=3391…

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Česká reprezentace, která během základní skupiny pobývá v texaském městě Fort Worth, přijala pozvání městské samosprávy k návštěvě místní čtvrti Stockyards. 🇺🇸 Český tým navštívil také tradiční rodeo. Čtvrť Stockyards hrdě odkazuje na místní tradici kovbojství a Divokého západu. Právě zde se v roce 1918 uskutečnilo první halové rodeo na světě. Děkujeme za pozvání! 🐂🫶

The difference in production costs between a dozen cage-free eggs and a dozen normal eggs is 19 cents. But the cage-free eggs can cost nearly $2 more. Big supermarkets use cage-free as a price discrimination tool - targeting them to richer customers who are willing to pay more. Poorer customers, even if they care a lot about animal welfare, end up buying the normal eggs. But when states pass laws banning caged eggs, the markup disappears.

From day one, we believed taking care of people and building a great business go hand in hand. Today, we're making that belief official: P. Terry's is becoming employee-owned and launching profit sharing for eligible employees. Here's to the next generation of P. Terry's. ❤️

For nearly 40 years at Brown, Gordon S. Wood helped shape the study of early American history through his teaching, mentorship and award-winning scholarship. The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian leaves an extraordinary legacy at Brown and far beyond, influencing generations of students, scholars and readers. brown.edu/news/2026-06-08/go…

This would be like supporting an alcoholic by making him the official taster at the brewery.

Tragic news today: the eminent historian Gordon S. Wood was struck and killed while walking in the Shaw's plaza in East Providence, his family confirms to me. No comment from Brown yet Wood was just featured in Ken Burns' American Revolution documentary wpri.com/news/local-news/pro…

In medieval times, within the arms race of ever more demonic torture devices, some sadistic genius came up with the idea of the Little Ease. This was a prison cell built so small in every dimension that a grown man could not stand upright in it nor lie down at full length nor properly sit. The pain is relentless and without relief and inflicted by one's own body. Prisoners were known to go insane within a few days. A stay at the Little Ease was considered even more cruel than the rack, the thumbscrew, and the other ghoulish machinery of the Tower of London. A breeding pig will spend her whole life in a version of that box. These are social, roaming creatures (more intelligent than dogs) who will never leave this corset of steel. They have been selectively bred to be bigger than their frames can support. Yet we put them in cells so confined that they cannot comfortably sit, and their attempts to do so (for example, by sneaking their limbs into adjacent stalls) reliably lead to fractures and sprains. They cannot sweat, yet have nothing to roll around in to cool themselves off. Except their own manure, which (contrary to the common misconception) they are so averse to (thanks to their strong sense of smell) that new sows will often suffer from constipation to avoid soiling the space from which they eat and sleep. Here is how the writer Matthew Scully described what saw at one of Smithfield’s “gestation barn”: > “Sores, tumors, ulcers, pus pockets, lesions, cysts, bruises, torn ears, swollen legs everywhere. Roaring, groaning, tail biting, fighting, and other “Vices,” as they’re called in the industry. Frenzied chewing on bars and chains, stereotypical “vacuum” chewing on nothing at all, stereotypical rooting and nest building with imaginary straw. And “social defeat,” lots of it, in every third or fourth stall some completely broken being you know is alive only because she blinks and stares up at you … creatures beyond the power of pity to help or indifference to make more miserable, dead to the world except as heaps of flesh into which the [insemination] rod may be stuck once more and more flesh reproduced.” — The Save Our Bacon Act is trying to unroll the few state protections we have against this barbaric cruelty - for example California’s Prop 12 - which banned the sale of pork from pigs kept in gestation crates. It’s incredibly important we don’t end up with this sort of federal preemption. SOB will not only kill the most important animal welfare related laws in the US of the past decade, but more importantly, it will also restrict ALL future legislative progress (aka how the animal welfare movement has gotten its biggest wins). The Senate is currently deciding whether to add the SOB Act to the Farm Bill. With relatively little money now, we can discourage the most pivotal senators in the Ag committee from backing this amendment. Defeating this bill is even more important given the amount of philanthropic funding I expect to come online in the next year or two. It will plausibly be over 10x more expensive to repeal SOB than to prevent it from passing in the first place. All that money that could be spent transforming our society's relationship to mass animal suffering will instead have to be spent just getting us back to where we are right now. That's why money spent now fighting this bill (and I mean right NOW) is so effective. If you’re in a position to donate six figures, please DM me.

I still can’t believe Zidane pulled off a panenka penalty in a World Cup Final vs Prime Buffon

I have no connection to MIT, but hearing that they are shutting down 3 of their 4 libraries has me so so sad. I think it’s a decision they will live to regret & the symbolism of it is devastating.

Life goals.

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

China cut raw dysprosium and terbium to Japan, It did not cut finished magnets - Read that again. Japan can still buy the finished product from Chinese factories but cannot buy the raw material to make its own. That trains Japanese manufacturers to stop making magnets and start buying them, Every month Shin Etsu does not get raw dysprosium is a month its customers switch to Chinese finished magnets. The ban is not punishing Japan, It is converting Japan from a competitor into a customer. Takaichi said in Diet that a Chinese attack on Taiwan would be a survival threatening situation for Japan. That was one sentence in one committee hearing. Within two months China banned dual use exports, blacklisted 20 defense entities, and stopped shipping dysprosium, terbium, gallium, and yttrium. The chart goes from 200k kg bars to flat zero. Every Indo Pacific government considering a public Taiwan position now has a cost model in front of it Everyone focuses on dysprosium and terbium. Gallium is the harder problem. It is not mined directly. It comes as a byproduct of aluminium smelting. China runs 90% of global gallium supply because it runs 60% of global aluminium. You cannot build a gallium mine, You need an entire aluminium smelting industry first. Japan has neither, The chart shows gallium going to zero alongside the rare earths.

Congratulations to everyone at the club especially the fans - massive fight and result on the final day! 💪

We had no Premier League wins in 2026 (13 games), prior to the arrival of Roberto De Zerbi. Relegation looked increasingly inevitable. Thank you for saving this club from relegation, Roberto, we are eternally indebted to you for that. 🤍🇮🇹

JOAO WITH THE OPENER!!!

Best 9 in the world. RT if you agree.

Brilliant opportunity to work in my former department (Strategy) @AirWarCollege w/ a great cast of scholars. The Air University has refreshed its curriculum to expose students to war gaming while sharpening focus on great-power competition: networks.h-net.org/jobs/7003…

Society is full of little, insidious mechanisms trying to capture and divide your energy and focus This is completely against your own self-interest, but from this discourse this weekend on unhappiness in the face of abundance it should be fully evident that people are almost powerless to resist these forces This is because the smartest people in the world are hard at work creating novel approaches to highjack your attention, degrade your willpower and convince you to trade your money and your time for the next _____ which will surely, finally, bring your happiness But success, and contentedness, come from investing in *fewer* pursuits with *more* depth and intensity You only need a few great friends who you can count on and who can count on you. A couple of hobbies you are willing to be bad at for years until you slowly live your way into well-crafted mastery. Your career will flourish if you embrace the dogged pursuit of a single outcome over a long period of time This is the tension of modern existence, and the true meta-skill to hone and refine over decades. How do you live a deliberate life in a world that actively wants you to exist in a state of reactive desire? I don’t claim to have the answer, and would simply posit this: Become aware of all the ways society, and people, try to hijack your one precious life to divert attention toward things that really and truly do not matter, and even actively harm you And every day seek to build mental and emotional resilience against those forces and cultivate persistence in your pursuit of the few things that really and truly matter It is hard. Many days you will fail. But you cannot let the world knock you off balance and live a life defined by someone else’s terms It is perhaps the only thing that matters

Conrad wrote that "the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness." My gratitude and thanks to the crew of the USS Gerald R. Ford after nearly a year at sea. Their long deployment, involving indispensable roles in two major military operations, likely stripped life down to essentials: time, routine, fatigue, trust in the people beside you. And survival. All amidst indifferent oceans. Welcome home to the crew.