Writing Advice and Literary Wisdom from the Great E.B. White.
“A blank sheet of paper holds the greatest excitement there is for me — more promising than a silver cloud, prettier than a little red wagon. It holds all the hope there is, all fears.”
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On Rosh Hashanah it is inscribed
And on Yom Kippur it is sealed
How many shall die and how many shall be born
Who shall live and who shall die
Who at the measure of days and who before
Who by fire and who by water
Who by the sword and who by wild beasts
Who by hunger and who by thirst
Who by earthquake and who by plague
Who by strangling and who by stoning
Who shall have rest and who shall go wandering
Who will be tranquil and who shall be harassed
Who shall be at ease and who shall be afflicted
Who shall become poor and who shall become rich
Who shall be brought low and who shall be raised high
House Passes CLARITY Act Defining Crypto Regulation Coin World. Gives the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) more regulatory oversight over crypto, and wait for it…
Atlas of Surveillance
The Atlas of Surveillance – Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities with Open Source Research. “Explore 12,810 datapoints in the U.S. collected by hundreds of researchers. Last updated 7/15/25. TOGGLE the Legend to reveal how technology is spreading. ZOOM into any region to see the technologies in detail. If an area has no markers, it may mean it hasn’t been researched yet.
To help collect more data, visit our Collaborate page. Prefer text? Check out our searchable database. This map will serve content from arcgis.com, a third-party host, which may restrict access for users on Tor or users with third-party cookies blocked. The map requires use of Javascript and is subject to the ArcGIS Privacy Policy. If you’re having trouble viewing the map, you can Search the Data instead.”
ICE Is Getting Unprecedented Access to Medicaid Data
Wired – no paywall: “A new agreement viewed by WIRED gives ICE direct access to a federal database containing sensitive medical data on tens of millions of Americans, with the goal of locating immigrants. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are getting access to the personal data of nearly 80 million people on Medicaid in order to acquire “information concerning the identification and location of aliens in the United States,” according to an information exchange agreement viewed by WIRED.
The agreement, which is titled “Information Exchange Agreement Between the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for Disclosure of Identity and Location Information of Aliens,” was signed by CMS officials on Tuesday and first reported by AP News. Per the agreement, ICE officials will get login credentials for a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) database containing sensitive medical information, including detailed records about diagnoses and procedures.
Language in the agreement says it will allow ICE to access personal information such as home addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses, banking data, and social security numbers. (Later on in the agreement, what ICE is allowed to access is defined differently, specifying just “Medicaid recipients” and their sex, ethnicity, and race but forgoing any mention of IP or banking data.) The agreement is set to last two months. While the document is dated July 9, it is only effective starting when both parties sign it, which would indicate a 60-day span from July 15 to September 15…”
Pollinators send out good vibrations — and plants respond sweetly Science News
