Summer Book Events!
This summer, I’ll be hosting some big events with top thriller authors including Jack Carr and Brad Thor. More info here: Featured Events | Douglas County Libraries (dcl.org)
Dates:
- Jack Carr: Friday, June 21
- Daniel Silva: Thursday, July 18
- Brad Thor: Wednesday, July 24
I'm not yet sure whether I'm hosting Daniel Silva. (But if you love thrillers you should go to all of them no matter who's hosting.) Should find out soon. Buy tickets for these events before they sell out!
Thanks very much to these authors, their publishers, and the Douglas County Public Libraries for asking me to participate. Truly one of the highlights of my year and of my job.
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It's a brave new (AI) world
Fascinating, full of promise, and a little terrifying
A.I.’s ‘Her’ Era Has Arrived - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Listeners always ask for this writer's link:
Just One Thing: Bringing back the wolverine
Many folks think that the forced rapid reintroduction of wolves into Colorado was ill-conceived and for ranchers and their livestock it’s not going great. Nevertheless, a new law with bipartisan support authorizes the Parks and Wildlife department to reintroduce wolverines to the state. Wolverines are not even slightly related to wolves. They’re large scavengers in the weasel family and in the few places where they still exist in North America, they very rarely attack livestock. Unlike the ridiculous way wolves were forced into the state much faster than their normal migration would already have brought them, the new law does NOT have a deadline to bring the wolverines. It also will require federal review of the plan. There hasn’t been a wolverine that’s called Colorado home for more than 100 years. I don’t mind trying to change that.
Lawmakers direct Colorado Parks and Wildlife to restore wolverines (coloradosun.com)
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Today's Guests
Anne Garrett-Mills is Chief Medical Officer at Aurora Mental Health & Recovery. During this Mental Health Awareness Month we'll talk about a new technology that can be beneficial for some folks. It's called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.
Home - Aurora Mental Health & Recovery (auroramhr.org)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulation.
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Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson are the authors of the new "Tom Clancy" novel, "Act of Defiance", that is VERY much in the style of The Hunt for Red October, even as far as the Russian captain of the Red October submarine from that first Clancy novel showing up as a character in this one. It's a lot of fun, though I'd note again that it's VERY Clancy in style so you'll need to enjoy a lot of technical detail about military machinery, weapons, etc. I do enjoy that stuff and thoroughly enjoyed the book.
Amazon.com: Tom Clancy Act of Defiance (A Jack Ryan Novel)
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Other Stuff
Biden knows he's losing: Biden Offers to Debate Trump, With Terms, Shunning the Debate Commission – DNyuz
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Got whiplash yet? Israel-Hamas war: Biden is sending $1 billion in new weapons package to Israel, aides say | AP News
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Some indication that Jewish voters -- and big donors -- may reluctantly switch to Trump: The Rise of the ‘Never Bidens’ | The Free Press (thefp.com)
Related: The UN quietly stops trusting (some) Hamas casualty figures from Gaza, reduces number of estimated women and children victims by about half: Truth Should Not Be a Casualty of War. Plus. . . | The Free Press (thefp.com)
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I have no idea if this is true on a large scale with this large organization or if it’s just a few bad stories and a few disgruntled workers. But it definitely needs to be looked into: Former staff: Colorado Coalition of the Homeless clients not getting proper care (denver7.com)
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I owe you this from yesterday: There Are Two Sides to Every Debt (yahoo.com)
And this: Psaki's new book falsely recounts Biden's watch check in ceremony for fallen soldiers (axios.com)
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Kinda fun: Photos: Old Denver advertisements show price of goods in 1800s-1900s | FOX31 (kdvr.com)
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A most impressive young woman: A Chicago teen entered college at 10. At 17, she earned a doctorate | AP News
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I sorta get it…but I also sorta don’t: Deepfakes of your dead loved ones are a booming Chinese business | MIT Technology Review (archive.org)
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I think it's close to impossible that she'll be held liable for these charges unless she waited a REALLY long time to report the issue to the credit card company and she should go after the restaurant for any charges the credit card company won't void: NC woman hit with charges after restaurant posts her credit card online (wral.com)
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This is truly fantastic and if I were a billionaire I'd try to buy the collection: Coin collection of Danish butter magnate going on sale after being sealed for 100 years | World News | Sky News
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Excellent letter from Jewish students at Columbia University: In Our Name: A Message from Jewish Students at Columbia University (google.com)
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It's true that China poses particular non-trade issues but these tariffs are nuts and, as a general rule, there is no dumber economic policy in our modern interconnected world than tariffs which are simply taxes paid BY AMERICANS designed to protect American businesses which aren't competitive enough and which deprive consumers of choices they might prefer.
Biden Starts a Green Trade War - WSJ
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A remarkable tale of abusing shareholders but really I blame the stupid buyers more than I blame the CEO (even though this CEO is a joke). 1 big thing: How to survive while losing $7.5 billion (AMC) - Axios.com
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This is so insanely beyond stupid and beyond impossible that I'm surprised, even in an age of idiocy, that anybody talks about it as if it could be true: Woman Claims She Hasn’t Eaten or Drunk Anything in Over 16 Years (odditycentral.com)
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Impressive, and she'd better learn to say "I don't do windows"
Watch: Speedy window cleaner breaks world record at competition - UPI.com
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The worst Supreme Court decision of my lifetime remains, in my opinion, Kelo v New London. In that case, the Court rule 5-4 that a government can take someone's property (and pay them for it) if the proposed use has a "public benefit" even though the original conception of that use of the power of eminent domain was if the property would be put to "public use", such as a road. This particular case seems much closer to me to the wrong "public benefit" standard than a "public use" standard though it's a bit of a closer call than the Kelo situation was. Brighton farm draws hundreds of supporters in eminent domain fight (denverpost.com)
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I want to know why the fish didn't reproduce: Dozen gigantic, decades-old fish removed from Arvada pond (denverpost.com)
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Today's Videos
I don't know if this is real but I sure hope it is. I like the Waffle House but this probably does go some way to explaining Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The proper way to squeeze a plastic ketchup bottle?
This is long but for some reason I found myself watching the whole thing