The run-aissance
On a single day in April, all 50 of the world’s hottest cities were in India, where unprecedented heatwaves are becoming common. / Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
President Trump spends $700 million to keep retiring coal plants open and even build an Oakland coal terminal canceled several times over. (See also: The Pacific Circuit.) / The Associated Press, The Los Angeles Times, oakland garden club
Meanwhile, ratepayers will subsidize a past-retirement Indiana coal plant to the tune of $1 billion. / Canary
The White House begins “a massive leak hunt” to find out who spoke to Maggie Haberman for her new book about Trump. / Reliable Sources
Related: The latest excerpt from the book, this time about the Epstein files. / The New York Times [$]
What do “white identitarians” want? Reportedly, the moral and institutional power that comes with victimhood status, “which is now anyone’s prize in post-woke America.” / The Atlantic [$]
More than a dozen cases around the country find police officers stalking people, using an automated license plate reader system. / 404 Media
What’s it like to work with Anthropic’s new “Mythos-class” model? “I brief the model, it spins up its own agents to research and write and check one another’s work, and what comes back is finished.” / One Useful Thing
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A new type of “momfluencer” promotes using AI for coparenting. / WIRED
See also: A hand-powered AI called CrankGPT that will still work in a thousand years. / Kottke
A fake version of the band Angine de Poitrine—with the same stage makeup and costumes but only a single-necked guitar—has been touring Russia. / Guitar World
“As a Briton, I sometimes find the American mania for our island’s history baffling.” A British coat of arms will cost you about $12,000. / The Atlantic [$]
Some analysis of relationship data gleaned from thousands of people tracked by Stanford researchers for nearly a decade. / The Pudding
Unrelated: Meticulous paintings of buildings bursting apart. / Colossal
Some thoughts and interviews regarding novelists who write books that don’t contain periods. / Totei
What it’s like to speedwalk the Metropolitan Museum of Art. / Ridgeline
Museums around the world are said to be filled with forgeries painted by Chang Dai-chien, who is said to have out-sold Van Gogh in his lifetime. / Dreaming in Japanese
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