I'm kind of surprised. I finished the first draft of Future Sepsis tonight.

Final word count is 67,912 words.

The original plan was for 60,000 words completed 1,000 per week starting in January and ending sometime in early 2026. Obviously I was able to have some very productive weeks.

Planning to edit in 3 passes using different techniques for each pass to catch different potential problems in the work, then I'll have to start all the legwork of getting it out there.

For anyone who goes "This dummy writes too much in his posts", just imagine -- I've been writing this much outside of my posts! 😛

Tears of the UK's treasury chief spooked financial markets
https://apnews.com/article/britain-politics-labour-crying-reeves-starmer-ba681609898f550a2c6793d253417e11?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into International News @international-news-AssociatedPress

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No brakes…..

Residents of Hawaii’s Big Island Pass Law to Keep Cell Towers Away from Homes, Schools

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Residents of Hawaii’s Big Island Pass Law to Keep Cell Towers Away from Homes, Schools • Children's Health Defense

Under the ordinance, the first of its kind in the state, new cell towers and antennas on Hawaii’s Big Island must be at least 600 feet away from homes and schools.

^{Lisa P (Children's Health Defense)}

🔧 Step 1: Understand DPRK Housing Numbers

📌 Data:

• 80,700 homes built in 1,500 rural villages.
• 20,000 more rural homes currently under construction.
• Total = 100,700 rural homes built or being built.

🇰🇵 DPRK Population (Estimate):

• ~25 million people

We’ll assume:

• These homes are for rural areas only (not urban high-rises).
• These are single-family or small-unit homes, likely modest, i.e., working-class style.

🧮 DPRK per capita housing construction:

100,700 homes / 25,000,000 people ≈ 1 home per 248 people

🔧 Step 2: Compare with USA (Working-Class Focus)

🇺🇸 U.S. Population:

• ~336 million (2025 est.)

🏗️ U.S. Annual Housing Construction:

According to U.S. Census data:

• 2023: ~1.45 million new housing units were started.
  
  • About 65–70% are single-family homes, the rest are multi-family.
  • A significant share are high-end homes or investment properties, not working-class housing.

  
  

🎯 Filter: Working-Class Style Homes

Assumptions:

• Assume 50% of new homes are working-class homes.
  
  • (Removes many luxury homes, vacation homes, and speculative units.)

  
  

50% of 1.45 million = 725,000 working-class homes annually

🧮 U.S. per capita housing construction (working class):

725,000 homes / 336,000,000 people ≈ 1 home per 463 people

⚖️ Side-by-Side Comparison (Working-Class Homes Only)

🧠 Insight

• On a per capita basis, the DPRK is currently building nearly twice as many working-class homes as the U.S. — 1 per 248 people vs. 1 per 463.
• DPRK's campaign is state-directed, rural-focused, and ideological, aligning with their "Rural Revolution".
• The U.S. system is market-driven, uneven, and often skewed toward urban and suburban developments, with working-class housing increasingly squeezed by:
  
  • Zoning laws
  • Rising material and labor costs
  • NIMBYism
  • Profit motive favoring luxury construction

  
  

🏁 Conclusion

The DPRK — despite sanctions, isolation, and limited resources — is currently outperforming the U.S. in building working-class homes per capita during this rural housing campaign.

The U.S., with a far larger economy, could do much better, but market distortions, speculation, and class dynamics reduce the actual rate of affordable housing production.

Let me know if you'd like this broken down by region (e.g., U.S. rural vs urban), or if you'd like a comparison over a decade.

If you think the left are losing their mind now, wait until the Dow hits 45,000 points AND the FED drops the prime rate by 1 basis point. The former may happen on Monday, and the later just may occur a week or so after.

Then, KATIE BAR THE DOOR.

Ex-Labour MP Zarah Sultana has announced she is resigning from the party, saying she will be founding a new party with her former leader Jeremy Corbyn. 🔥

Sultana, the Coventry South MP stripped of the Labour whip last year for backing a move to scrap the two-child benefit cap, said the new party would be formed with other independent MPs and activists, aiming to challenge a "broken" Westminster system.

bbc.com/news/articles/cwyel9kg…

#uk #ukpol

Zarah Sultana says she is quitting Labour to start party with Jeremy Corbyn

Former Labour leader Corbyn has not yet confirmed his involvement to the BBC.

^{Sam Francis (BBC News)}

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Stay in your lane lady. It’s called Conspiracy/Aiding and Abetting…..

"Open the Books" looks at pay for lifeguards in and around Los Angeles

openthebooks.substack.com/p/ba…

Where you have
- over $500K of pay for one lifeguard for a single year (2024)
- over $700k of overtime pay for five years
and plenty of other examples.

Baywatch Pay Watch: Half-million-dollar checks, six-figure overtime for LA lifeguards

They may not be rich enough to hassle the Hoff yet, but they’re getting there.

^OpenTheBooks

The End of Moore's Law for AI? Gemini Flash Offers a Warning

Link: sutro.sh/blog/the-end-of-moore…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

The End of Moore's Law for AI? Gemini Flash Offers a Warning - Sutro

Run LLM batch jobs in hours, not days, at a fraction of the cost.

^sutro.sh

Uh guys? I'm watching Trump's ralley and he just was listing off all the bad groups of people and he mentioned we gotta do something about the Shylocks. I was like wait what? I had to look it up

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The 1775 Two Step That Led to American Independence

Regardless of Oval Office revisionism, Americans should never forget that their nation was forged in resistance to political slavery and claims by distant masters to unlimited power. Let us remember that the United States was founded on freedom, liberty and the rugged individualism of the White patriarchy. That's what they have taken from us.

The Declaration on Taking Up Arms contains flashes of wisdom that should have been burned into popular memory as much as any phrase from the following year’s Declaration of Independence. In 1775, Congress boldly declared that “our attachment to no nation upon earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.” Unfortunately, Washington policymakers long ago buried that maxim in their pursuit of dominating much of the globe.

The 1775 Two Step That Led to American Independence

^{James Bovard (Mises Institute)}

Missouri judge again blocks many of the state's anti-abortion laws
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-ban-missouri-court-bf10f0463cd2a5b7f23a2b169f4ac74b?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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