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Thursday, May 21, 2026
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Terrific new Pablo Torre podcast about the techniques used by a popular "mentalist"
He was the person scheduled to perform at this year's White House Correspondents' dinner instead of a comic--and apparently makes frequent appearances on major podcasts and tv shows.
Pablos's latest podcast goes into detail revealing how some of his popular tricks work, and asks whether the techniques stray from the common definition of magic tricks to outright fraud. (Torre's guest previously posted a much longer expose that's supposedly good.)
(The Columbo episodes about a mentalist and magician are good fun, and were great inoculation against falling for such nonsense.)
"A military-backed takeover at one of the world’s biggest cobalt operations highlights the dilemma facing wannabe investors in the rich mineral veins of the Democratic Republic of Congo"
William Clowes for Bloomberg's Africa newsletter:
The Katanga region of southeastern Congo is the source of most of the world’s cobalt and more copper than any country other than Chile. The geology, though, has created an operating environment that can at times resemble something out of a dystopian Mad Max movie.
The latest episode is the experience of a Eurasian Resources Group unit called Metalkol.
Intruders have hijacked a large part of its deposit and started to exploit the site on a near-industrial scale.
Noah Hawley wrote about attending one of Jeff Bezos's deluxe salons in 2018
Suitably spiced with various flavors of horror:
That’s how the weekend started. Here’s how it ended: My wife broke her wrist slipping on wet grass, and both children and I came down with hand, foot, and mouth disease. This is not a joke. One of us went home with her arm in a sling; the other three developed itchy, painful red blisters all over our faces and extremities. If you’re looking for a sign from God as to whether hanging out with the richest man on Earth is right for you, pay attention when he sends you not one plague, but two. Suffice it to say we have never been back to Campfire, nor have we ever been invited.
Camouflaged Peeta (and other Hunger Games vinyl figures) up for preorder
Shirtless Finnick and curteseying Katniss, and various other properties, including WH40K emperor in his throne.
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