Best of the shots from today's practice in DC. As usual, shot on my vintage Rokkor-X 50mm and A7IV.

BREAKING @TheAthleticFC Folarin Balogun will be available to play the USMNT’s round of 16 match against Belgium with his one-game red-card ban suspended. Extraordinary development. Story with @Dan_Sheldon_ nytimes.com/athletic/7423410…

Why can’t people accept that the sweet spot is probably that “free market capitalism” works best for goods and services that are non-essential and “socialism” works best for goods and services where life/health/education takes priority over profit? A bifurcated economy?

250 years. God Bless America. 🇺🇸

New York: it's hot out there, and the power grid is working overtime to keep us cool. Set your AC to 78 degrees, turn off lights/electronics you're not using, and unplug what you can. Our City is doing its part too: maintaining the 78 degrees rule in our buildings, dimming/turning off our lights during peak electricity demand, asking private partners to do the same, and powering down non-essential equipment. A stable grid means the AC stays on, and lives are saved. Let's ease demand — and get through the heat — together.

Incredible: In 2025, SF gave out more new dog licenses than it had human births.

in the 2000s my university charged like $300 for summer storage BUT you could buy surplus FIM-29 Stinger launcher cases for $200 so i put my clothes and books in one, sunk it in the river by my dorm, and retrieved it fall semester they’re hard to find now and i regret selling it

Kane Hsieh (@kane) is a GP at @rootvc, which has backed multiple unicorns, all in the world of hardware. On episode three of Cars and Capitalists, Kane and I discuss: 00:00 - Cigarettes with asbestos filters 04:40 - The evolution of crabs, compared to consumer hardware. 10:42 - How shipping parts overnight is faster than 3D printing 13:05 - Why the Japanese can create an excellent taco and the British never will 15:17 - Why there may never be an LLM for generating CAD 23:00 - Humanoid robots are meh 24:40 - The founder who built his own airplane 24:42 - The best way to consume nicotine 28:55 - Asbestos, the miracle insulator 31:23 - Smoking Pipes 33:56 - How to eat the Mona Lisa 37:23 - Be a dumpster fire. Everyone else is doing it.

Ossoff: "Just think, 250 years on, what the Founders would see if they visited us today. *crowd groans* But wait -- they would see that slavery had been abolished. They would see that Americans without land, and then women, and then the descendants of slaves had secured voting rights ... "

In honor of the 250th, we recreated this statue & have it on sale right now 100% USA handmade. Order now to receive the 250th sale pricing. thank you for patriotism & patronage 🇺🇸