Oof. Buddy Guy has a new album out and he’s still got it. 🔥 #tunestr #blues

Gm. New essay up yesterday about smartphones and kids. All my daughter’s friends and cousins have a smartphone now. She is going into seventh grade. Here’s why we’re waiting until high school. #coffeechain #essays #longreads https://primal.net/e/

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Good to know. We were thinking about a tracphone with pay as you go but honestly they aren’t as cheap as I thought they would be. The minutes/texts that is.

Also from the article “Closer to home for FIRE, Trump also went after Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer, whose polling predicted Harris taking the lead in Iowa in 2024. Selzer's poll predicted Harris would win Iowa by three points; Trump would carry the state by 13. (At least two factors in the discrepancy are that landline-based phone polls don’t have the same reach because people have shifted to mobile phones, and that Trump supporters in general are less likely to respond to polls.) Trump is suing Selzer under Iowa law, alleging that his later victory in the state means Selzer’s poll constituted “consumer fraud.” We’re defending her, because trying to chill the reporting of unfavorable poll results is a direct assault on the First Amendment. And it’s not just the press or polling. Law firms and universities have been put in the crosshairs of these pressure campaigns. This is what authoritarianism looks like when it’s wearing a business suit and holding a regulatory approval stamp.”

“The Paramount case is different because it tied all of this together into a coherent system: a politically motivated lawsuit, regulatory leverage from a federal agency, and non-monetary concessions that directly alter editorial behavior. It’s the dream scenario for any would-be strongman: state-sanctioned speech control without the pesky optics of state control.” https://open.substack.com/pub/greglukianoff/p/about-that-south-park-episode?r=7ew6d&utm_medium=ios

I’m not a fan of public health theater. https://youtu.be/D741yR8uC54?si=8DUjpTpqw_eZSsS7

She past away last night. We talked to someone who has worked with chickens for a decade or so and he thought it was either dehydration or she injured her esophagus somehow. It must’ve been the latter because we were able to get her a fair amount of water throughout the day but it never got better.

Oof.

Thanks for everyone that replied to this and gave us ideas. Unfortunately Bonnie passed away last night. I never expected we’d get attached to chickens like we have but we were all pretty sad that she died. The two orpingtons we had were our friendliest ones. Thanks again, friends. 🙏🏼

Will do. We are thinking (and hoping) it’s dehydration. I guess they can breathe like this when that happens. She wiggled her way out of the run we have for the younger chicks and was separated from her water for a few hours, so it’s possible.