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You are looking at the Inner Drive Technology Journal project release 1.0.9723, containing the biggest feature set I've ever released in one week.

The Economist/YouGov approval tracker has the OAFPOTUS's net approval at -27 (34% approve, 61% disapprove), down 0.9 points since last week, and the lowest approval rating in the history of the poll. In their state-by-state analysis he's only above water in Idaho, Wyoming, and West Virginia, which together account for 11 electoral votes, not quite enough to swing a national race. Even among older white uneducated men, he's around -15. Will that translate into the 6 Senate pickups we need to halt the...

We have a bit of smoke drifting down from Minnesota this afternoon, pushing our AQI up to 69. It's enough to taste, unfortunately, but not enough to hurt. We've also got yet another line of thunderstorms coming through in an hour. Cassie and I caught a little bit of drizzle just now, which was just an added bonus on top of the humidity. Once my shirt dries sufficiently I'll peel it off and take a shower.

Architect and University of Illinois-Chicago professor Stewart Hicks explains why the architecture of data centers will result in a generation or more of unusable land, and how architects of the past avoided this outcome (mostly):

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While a new wave of storms drenches the South Side, an old wave of sensible Democrats stopped the insanity in Wisconsin, nominating moderate Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley for governor in a squeaker against state representiative Francesca Hong. And once again, left-wing activists seem to have gamed the polls(https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prediction-markets-get-trounced-in-hongs-defeat) and prediction markets. Not to put too fine a point on it, but most Democratic voters seem to have...

The National Weather Service confirmed that the storms we had in Chicago yesterday resulted from a derecho:

I'm just far enough north that we didn't get the worst of the derecho tearing through the area:

I posted on Friday that I planned to make pasta sauce over the weekend, and in fact I did. This also gave me a chance to play with Claude AI a bit more. Now, it's well known that some older LLMs sucked at basic math. Anthropic seems to have solved that, as I've seen when I've run other queries. What does this have to do with pasta sauce? Well, you need math if you're going to make nutrition labels from an ingredient list:

One of the Air Force Thunderbirds has been tooling around Chicago this morning, preparing for this weekend's Air & Water Show. He passed right by my window doing almost 350 knots, and I had my 300 mm lens ready: