The Jackpot Blog

The looming impact of federal Medicaid cuts has reignited a long-simmering, costly battle between California’s medical industry and one of its largest health worker unions.

Dad Joke of the Day: What’s made out of leather and sounds like a sneeze?

• Expert.
• Physicality.
• Looksmaxxing.

For Words of the Day, “expert,” I wanted to cite to five-time Nebula-, five-time Hugo Award winner Ursula Le Guin, in her The Lathe of Heaven, from which I felt sure the passage “Mr. Orr is an expert in tangibles” had come to mind, as such passages do. Out of habit, I searched on Google to verify the quote, as one does, or did, and received the following AI View, which I have helpfully annotated.

A change in your morning routine?

(1) Festival of Platner: “Graham Platner supporters celebrate after their candidate’s primary victory” • uotes from the locals, who are far more humane than DC.

(2) “FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs” • Orwell would be proud.

(3) “AI’s Elusive Returns” • Even more elusive with usage-based pricing!

(4) “The first legal structure for artists in America is now law” • Good news!

The rainforest will be understood not only as a biological system, but as a historical one – shaped, in part, by the people who lived within it.

Dad Joke of the Day: How do you feel about “boustrophedonic”?

• Innovation.
• Administrator
• Presence.

Many Silicon Valley oligarchs are slaves, to adapt Keynes, of defunct science fiction and fantasy writers.

What is your ASMR solution?

(1) Festival of Platner: “I know firsthand why Graham Platner shouldn’t be a U.S. senator” • WaPo, not paywalled.

(2) “Palantir’s kill chain meets the multipolar child” • Billionaires don’t want to “stay in their lane.”

(3) “Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse” • Truly vile.

(4) “You Can Now Get a Religious Exemption From Using AI at Work” • Unitarians rejoice!