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“More than a machine: Big Boy No. 4014 sparks a nationwide reunion” ••• [washington examiner] 10 July 2026, by Salena Zito ••• a journalist who knows what’s important.
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“Big Nano” — Cross Roads IP Holdings shows how to build things large enough to be useful the exhibit the nanoscale behaviors of the crystals they are made of.
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Virginia Postrel’s essay on ambition without hierarchy
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https://vpostrel.substack.com/p/a-restless-and-ambitious-people-americas
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Shannon Ewing, Sodality •••
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“Here We Go Again: On the patterns that are choosing us” — honest, difficult, powerful, worth thought …
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Story
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Diamond-Michael Scott: “Why I Believe Analog Connection is the New Future of Books” •••
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Ronald Reagan: “A Time for Choosing” — 1964, a speech not to be forgotten
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Text of the speech ••• Audio of the speech •••
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Ralston Colletge: “AI and the Battle for the Soul” with Iain McGilchrist, Jonathan Pageau and Stephen Wolfram
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Lecture 1: Information is Not Understanding, Iain McGilchrist
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Lecture 2: xxx, Jonathan Pageau
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Lecture 3: xxx, Stephen Wolfram
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Ed Warner tells the story of his development of coalbed methane, and later discovery of a major gas field in Wyoming — a video interview made by the AAPG
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The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) •••
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CATO: “The Case for Consumer-Regulated Electricity: Private Electricity Grids Offer a Parallel Path to Energy Abundance” •••
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Sky Huddleston’s Eternal Engines: “Compact modular engine platforms delivering high output, low weight, multifuel capabilities, and exceptional endurance for advanced field operations.”
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What could engines like this do for work off-grid? How much grid dependence might be eliminated? Would neighborhood electricity providers appear? What adjustments of regulation could support this?
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Foundation for Economic Education elebrates its 80th Anniversary
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‘In 1946, Leonard E. Read established the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) as the original free market education organization in the U.S. Eighty years later, the mission remains the same: to inspire, educate, and connect future leaders with the economic, ethical, and legal principles of a free society. Timeless principles never go out of style.’
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Where did the resources come from to start FEE? What do we know of the motives of those who provided them?
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Kunstler’s Overview published 7 July
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Other JHK articles
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Oslo Freedom Forum & Thor Halvorssen
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Konstantin Kisin, opening speech ••• at Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) x.com
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‘The job of Rome was to spread the ideas of Greece and the job of America is to spread the ideas of England. Liberty is one of them.’
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‘Liberty is becoming a dirty word on both left and right because many now mistakenly associate liberty with the grotesque excesses of liberalism, which has mutated from the pursuit of freedom from tyranny to the pursuit of freedom from reality.’
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The Age of Reconstruction: Building a Civilisation Worth Inheriting ••• available through Amazon everywhere except the United States (as of 20 Jul 26)
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"Tousi TV Deported To America - Trump Saved Our Channel" •••
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Mahyer Tousi, now a British expat, is moving to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
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Lucy Biggers interviewed on Triggernomety •••
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Lucy tells a story of profound change of mind, and has the courage to tell it plainly. Konstantin Kisin is a good interviewer.
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00:00 - Trailer
00:54 - From Progressive Media To Political Awakening
06:02 - Climate Activism, Fear & Media Narratives
13:51 - Ad: Monetary Metals
15:11 - Why Modern Journalism Lost Public Trust
22:18 - The Problem With Ideological Thinking
27:03 - Ad: CyberGhost VPN
28:35 - Social Media, Identity & Online Radicalisation
33:46 - Ad: Shopify
35:11 - Why Young People Feel Lost
42:34 - Ad: Qualia
44:12 - Elite Culture, Status & Performative Politics
48:01 - Parenting, Schools & Protecting Kids From Ideology
54:56 - Ad: Larridin
56:00 - Why Americans Have Lost Faith In Their Country
01:00:58 - Leaving The Left & Rethinking Everything
01:06:14 - What’s The One Thing We’re Not Talking About?
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3 Moons, Dan Becker, on order, and on financial mechanisms independent of governments
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Hedera makes MEV impossible - no other layer 1 DLT can claim this.
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🦊2026-07-10: Brandon Hargreaves’ weekly program on Hedera (a DLT)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5STSizXDSY
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21:50 - HOL Guard [protection against unwanted agent-actions]
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‘AI agents are getting more powerful and with that power and access to your data comes a risk. If you're using tools like clawed code, cursor codecs, Gemini CLI or other AI coding agents, those agents may be able to run commands, access files, install packages, or interact with your local environment.
That's where HOL guard comes in. Leveraging the Hedera consensus service, HOL Guard adds a safety layer between your AI agent and the tools it wants to run. It can help intercept risky actions before they happen, like secret file reads, dangerous commands, installs, MCP changes, and other actions you may want to approve before execution.’
 
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