One of the many spots that FBI Director Kash Patel liked to get hammered is an exclusive club in Las Vegas called the Poodle Room.
The Poodle Room is associated with the Fontainebleau Hotel, and I walked past the discreet entrance in the lobby. when I stayed there last month.
Unfortunately, the Poodle Room is not a place where there are lots of poodles and you can play with them.
Excellent headline at The Register: World’s blandest man steps down from CEO job to spend more time in tastefully appointed home. And a good article under the headline, by Matt Rosoff.
Palantir issued an ominous, 22-point corporate manifesto. “… reads like the ramblings of a comic-book villain.
Hamilton Nolan: “This is not a coherent set of arguments at all. It is not a philosophy. It is not a set of intelligible ethics. Rather, it is a list of angry reactions to being yelled at—given a somber voice and dressed up as some sort of wondrous work of intellect.”
NASA turned off more instruments on Voyager 1 to keep it going. The spacecraft launched in 1977. An American triumph, for all humanity.
Comrade Trump: Burning down the American empire to save it. By Cory Doctorow. Trump’s bonehead maneuvers are driving the world toward solar power, away from dependence on American technology companies and putting spine into the Democratic Party. “Look, all things being equal, I would have preferred that Trump had keeled over from a mid-burger stroke on the campaign trail in 2016. But when life gives you SARS, you make sarsaparilla. This is a deeply shitty timeline, but Comrade Trump keeps tripping over his red tie. Let’s take the wins.”
Here’s a nice view I saw while walking the dog one morning a few weeks ago.
Heather Cox Richardson: “And, just like that, President Donald J. Trump’s triumphant boasting that the Strait of Hormuz had been permanently reopened has unraveled in less than 24 hours.” Read to the end for a moving speech by Pete Buttigieg.
