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

Lots of folks have been saying this. The New York Times lays it all out.

The American E.V. Has Been Crushed. Will It Take the U.S. Auto Industry With It?

This is what the Trump administration has really been up to.  Stealing Americans private data and sending it to companies like Palantir.  I’m certain this was all the Elon Musk shenanigans was all about.  People really need to go to jail over this.

ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn’t supposed to have with Palantir

We all live in the same world today, the uni-context. A good (no, great) read for anyone trying to understand things today.  From Derek Thompson’s SubStack.

A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird

Well there may be more than a little truth to the old science fiction trope (“I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that”).

ChatGPT convinced an Alabama woman to end her life to fulfill a divine prophesy, lawsuit alleges