Extra, Extra
Cease Ceased: U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Iran had asked to continue talks and the U.S. had agreed, but that the ceasefire was over. (Of course, we can’t be sure of any of that because of the source.)
+ Playing with Housing Money: Housing affordability bill is about to become law, even after Trump refuses to sign it in PROTEST.” (So he gets to enrage his own party with nothing to show for it.)
+ Nolan Wells: “Nolan Wells was last seen boating with friends around 3 p.m. Saturday on Horn Island, a barrier reef off Mississippi accessible only by boat, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department said. He was wearing blue swim trunks and sunglasses. Wells’ mother reported him missing that night after he did not return on the boat with the rest of the group.” Investigation underway into death of Mississippi 18-year-old who vanished on July 4 boating trip. (This feels like it’s going to become a massive story.)
+ Parasite Unseen: “There’s a lag between when people consume the parasite that causes the illness and when symptoms appear, making it tough for those infected to remember what they ate to pinpoint the problem. Health officials are alarmed by the rapidly growing number of cases, which they say are likely undercounted because some people recover without medical care and are not tested.” Why we don’t know what food is spreading the parasite sickening thousands.
+ The Recline of Western Civilization: “Life is full of ethical dilemmas, some more consequential than others. Should you eat meat? While you decide, the lives of countless animals hang in the balance. Will you use Claude to write your cover letter? While you contemplate, your integrity is at risk. In comparison, seat reclination is small-scale. Only a few inches are at stake, perhaps for just a few hours. And yet that little wedge of space and time looms large: whether you seize it seems to suggest something about how you treat other people, or even conceive of society in general.” The New Yorker: Should You Recline Your Airplane Seat? “Investigating the central dilemma of our time.” (There are still some airplane activities we can all agree are bad. For example: Passenger partly sucked out of window soon after takeoff from Greece…)
+ Messi Business: “They discovered that the name they had chosen in honor of Lionel Messi violated an obscure 1969 Argentina statute prohibiting the use of surnames as first names.” This is why there aren’t thousands of Argentinians named Messi.
