Incidentally GTA6 is coming out in November and apparently it cost $1 billion to make. Gonna play the heck out of it not just for the music but because of its status as a cultural artefact: the final big game built before LLMs. No-one will ever invest that much in a game again, no software …
I was sitting on the front porch early this afternoon with my eyes on the street when the postman come up the front walk holding a book-shaped package. I walked up to him, reached out, and held it in my hands. The kind folks at Bookworks and the Leopold Writing Program, with some help from …
Nota bene: A guest post from friends of Inkstain John Berggren and Kevin Wheeler John Berggren (Regional Policy Manager, Western Resource Advocates) Kevin Wheeler (Principle, Water Balance Consulting) 5/5/2026 As everyone is well aware, the snowpack and associated runoff this year are truly awful. It will be one of the worst, if not worst, on record. …
Tucker Davidson of Audubon wrote a lovely piece about slowing down and listening to, and looking for, the birds: Birding requires us to be present in the moment. It also allows us to shift our focus from our own worries and ruminations to another subject, breaking anxious thought patterns. Birds hold our attention without overwhelming it. For …
Think of law as software. State agency budgets and staff are hardware. We have been stripping the copper for the past forty years, making software updates questionably useful, without durable fixes to the hardware. For constitutional environmental rights to make a difference, state natural resource departments need to be adequately funded and staffed. – Sonya …
Often we are the only indoor public space in our communities and provide the only accessible public bathroom. We provide broadband internet to people who can’t access it otherwise, and assistance with the email addresses and online forms required to access public welfare programs. Extreme poverty, unaddressed mental illness, the opioid crisis?—?all of it walks …
It’s always more interesting than I think! After this morning’s quickie “wheat acreage lowest since 1919” post, I dusted off my USDA NASS data skills (I used to work with that data a lot, but it’s been ages). Why 1919? 1919, it turns out, was when USDA’s US wheat acreage record starts! So really what …
Agriculture officials estimate that total United States wheat acreage will drop to its lowest level since 1919 as farmers finalize spring planting plans under the shadow of a virtual shutdown in the Strait of Hormuz. – Trading Economics