https://www.greatitalianchefs.com/recipes/pasta-alla-gricia-recipe

Gonna have to try this. Apparently, it’s an old Roman recipe from back in the days before tomatoes were discovered in the New World.

https://www.eatthis.com/cocktails-bartenders-order/

Some fun-sounding cocktails in here.

The end of Western hegemony, one data point.

《Still, the threat to Western auto market share posed by Chinese EVs is one for which Western policy makers have no obvious answer. “You can shut off your own market and to a certain extent that will shield production for your domestic needs,” said Sebastian. “The question really is, what are you going to do for the global south, countries that are still very happily trading with China?”》

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-ev-juggernaut-is-a-warning-for-the-west-1389f718?st=e88hda3fy76y7zu&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/may/24/blood-and-gold-review-second-world-war-spaghetti-western-is-good-pulpy-fun

Indeed. It’s like Tarantino made this flick, title font, kitschy music, and all.

https://www.tastingtable.com/1304627/grilled-ingredient-upgrade-summertime-chartreuse-swizzle/

Falernum, eh?

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2023/06/usaf-calls-killer-ai-report-anecdotal/387046/

I.e.: never happened.

https://www.vulture.com/2022/10/theater-review-1776-on-broadway.html

I’m just some tasteless Philistine, but I just saw this at DPAC, and it was insanely good. Not AT ALL your father’s or grandfather’s 1776. South Carolina’s song about how we (white people) all participate in slavery was just a bludgeon.

https://www.allmusicals.com/lyrics/1776/molassestorum.amp.htm

I think it is hi-larious that the first major impact making climate change real for people is insurance.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/31/climate/climate-change-insurance-wildfires-california.html?unlocked_article_code=jNqQQ3KxRnognLlf4E3o8-ksmAA0-8dXGuWxaX5XSl3X7Ziqr0aWrufjZFG9YoVucV0uYctEwOGqsBSd3VTopkiZoonX1vPqPvyocD_cUv4jPX8sBhgqlX3GYvjygj1RWem8LrkdexM25mFs-fSKPSCECFPdBYTvtXa27f7MfS8Gq1E_eYz-6A2oneU2oc8AV7P5ZWyXx_jW4yPjIh31LI19nFQjF90WSf521Jt0V5TqJOXGyFLFRhdsz2kvRyj8zIJwqnKG8c56TW0413-gcmeCt5UUqyUqxLqNlEk76AGTCIHAnzfxx8D7I0jhRBDYmwqkLLurpofTk1pVPN1MpVIYf4Zu1-rd4PCvVIbIFgFV2ibr8_cs&smid=url-share

Ok, now that I’m not laughing any more, that actually makes sense. You won’t get clobbered by sea level rise or the mother of all forest fires or hurricanes, but none of the people whose job it is to know these things will take your bet that you’re going to be fine.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Native-American/Assimilation-versus-sovereignty-the-late-19th-to-the-late-20th-century

《In other cases, however, claims to indigenous heritage have proved bogus, and recognition has been denied.》

OK, I gotta say I’m a bit disappointed with Britannica here. “Bogus” seems like slang; why not “spurious” or “specious”?