In spite of the photos you see on the news of household waste, the vast majority of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch seems to be from commercial fishing, mostly nets.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not an island of trash: its plastic averages roughly 50 kilograms spread across each square kilometer, and a 2022 study found 75 to 86 percent of the large floating debris by mass came from fishing gear, not household waste

People who have not been convicted of a crime are having their DNA added to the FBI criminal database, in large numbers.  From The New Republic.

ICE Is Using Immigration Arrests to Build a Massive DNA Database

The Surveillance State continues.  At the very least there needs to be privacy laws to restrict access and punish misuse of this data.  From Tech Spot.

Dozens of police officers accused of using license plate cameras to track women

From Source New Mexico.

New Mexico plugs record number of abandoned oil and gas wells, thanks to Biden-era funding

A friend from the Bay Area sent me a pic of the City Lights bookstore with banners quoting Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poem Pity the Nation.  The San Francisco Chronicle has an article about it:

‘Pity the nation’: San Francisco’s City Lights Bookstore displays banners warning against tyranny

The poem and its connection to a similar work by Khalil Gibran is in a posting on The Allen Ginsburg Project blog.

Ferlinghetti (Pity The Nation)

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