Ran across the little fiesta up the road in Bernalillo.  Lots of these around in this part of the world, being rural / agricultural.

Fiesta de San Lorenzo, Bernalillo, Nuevo Mexico

From Yale Climate Connections.

New Mexico’s clean energy success story

I don’t do any serious investing these days but enjoyed these quotes collected by Cove Street Capital.  My favorite:

… more fiction has been written in Excel than Word

More Summer Reading from the Clean Out Old Clip Files

A good overview on the circulation of vast amounts of capital within the AI world.  From Marcus on AI.

Circular financing ain’t what it used to be

Saw this on Kareem Abdul Jabbar’s SubStack.  A quote from Bob Dylan from 1993.  Are we there yet?

“Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it’s available. When the cost comes down, look out!”
― Bob Dylan

I’ve travelled to Mexico, usually on vacation, most of my life.  Maybe a dozen times overall.  The warning was always: don’t drink the water and avoid unwashed fruits and vegetables.  Lettuce was usually mentioned.

Today it seems problematic (ahem) lettuce from Mexico is being imported.  I’m not sure what the whole story is here.  Maybe there aren’t enough people left to pick lettuce here in the US after all the ICE raids.  Maybe standards have been loosened (thanks RFK Jr and FDA).  Maybe it’s just old fashioned corruption.  Maybe it’s all of these.  Even the right wing news source NewsNation can’t ignore the massive (we will call it) appearance of corruption here.  And nobody will officially name “Taylor Farms” as the culprit, but it seems to be where all the data points.

Taylor Farms political donations questioned amid cyclosporiasis outbreak

Privacy is quickly becoming a thing only accessible to the wealthy and powerful.  From Wired.

For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark

So many issues here.  Surveillance.  Self-surveillance.  The right to be innocent until proven guilty.  Being forced to testify against yourself.  Privacy.

US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system

A New Orleans political story picked up by the Guardian (UK)

He won office in Louisiana after a murder exoneration. Maga wouldn’t let the election stand

The Chevy Bolt is back from the dead with faster charging and a price under $30k.  If I were buying a new car this one would be high on my list.

Presenting the 2026 Car and Driver EV of the Year