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Hey! Thanks for subscribing. A friend of mine asked me to contribute to their zine! It’s about finding neurodiverse representation in entertainment media and pop culture in general with a specific focus on autism spectrum disorder. I myself am not on the autism spectrum; I don’t believe “watching too much anime” is part of the diagnostic criteria for that anymore. I do find it funny, though, that it is often ASD coded characters that I gravitate towards strongly in the anime that I enjoy.

Hey friend 👋 Today we will discuss a mental model called Hanlon’s Razor. A razor here is a simple mental tool to shave off unnecessary information or noise from a decision. Hanlon’s razor goes like this - “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity” Before we dive deeper, let’s look at the find of the week - This week’s find is the Why We Buy newsletter.

In what the late Saddam Hussein once dubbed “the great Satan,” roughly two-thirds of the United States enlisted military corps is white . . . The fat, bulbous U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin once confirmed in a 93-2 vote of the U.S. Senate, immediately embarked on a whirlwind media tour of duty, telling the pseudo-secular sycophants in the state-controlled tabloid press and state-controlled television talk show circuit about how the U.

Greg Mitchell is the author of more than a dozen books, including three related to The Bomb, and now writer/director of three award-winning films aired via PBS, including “Atomic Cover-up” and “Memorial Day Massacre” which are still up at PBS.org. You can still subscribe to this newsletter for free. Stephen Colbert welcomed Christopher Nolan to his latenight show on Wednesday night for a rare segment comprising almost the entire show (last to achieve this: Barbra Streisand).

Here’s the latest installment in our ongoing MakeBeliefs series to provide comfort and hope to young and old who are feeling distressed and anxious in our too fast-changing and sometimes unforgiving world. It’s our way of making things better by helping you imagine! I created these MakeBeliefs to find hope. If you find value in the MakeBeliefs project, … ncG1vNJzZmilkaCyo7HLopyfq16owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6nnLBlk6S6qq%2BMnJ%2BaqpGYwaa%2B0maaqKWZrXqnwc1mmK0%3D

Follow us on Twitter: @AlexC_NJD, @NJD_OnTheRush It's been a long time coming, but we've made it, everyone. It's NHL Draft Week. We've covered plenty of prospects the New Jersey Devils could take with the tenth overall pick, so let's conclude with at least one more who's been on the rise in the lead-up to the draft. Beckett Sennecke's counting totals in the OHL this season might not be all that impressive, but he had an excellent close to the 2023-24 season and looks like a good bet to end up as a top-10 selection.

When I first found this new Nirvana album, Heaven Is a Hoax, on YouTube, I was like What the hell is going on here? I hadn’t had my morning tea yet. “Heaven Is A Hoax is an album released by Nirvana in 1996, which shows the true colors the band has to offer,” wrote the YouTube poster, cafeex. “This beautiful piece of work is one of the last true grunge works of the 90’s.

Hilliard’s destination restaurant Starliner Diner will soon add new fare to its menu and a few more words to its name but little else will change. “We are keeping the entire Starliner Diner menu,” and décor, new owner Tim Burkhammer said Feb. 13. Within two weeks, the restaurant is to be rebranded “Starliner Diner & Nancy’s Home Cooking,” incorporating the names of both restaurants and legacies that Burkhammer has acquired.

Bootcut doesn’t come out until September 15, but there’s another tune that is out today called I’m Still. You can listen below or here. (The word “here” is actually a hyperlink. Hard to tell in this colour scheme but it matches the album) Made a vid too. It features some amazing free-bassing by Dave Roe. And we used Madi Cunningham’s JHS guitar pedal on the vocal. That’s all for now. Don’t forget to preorder the bundle and catch a tour date this fall… some of them are already sold out so don’t miss it.