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“Dean Potter, the great climber, free soloist, bass jumper, wingsuit pilot, and it's his whole story. What you don't realize is that Dean was 6'6. So there's a scene of him soloing a root on the top of L-cap, that root that Alex has to wedge his body in and shimmy up that crack. He's 6'6, doing that. Dean is climbing from a lot of pathos, even in his early climbs when he does this amazing route, he's up there like, howling like a monkey and making it very, very much, there's rage involved. Alex, he climbs from a place of joy. He just loves it.”

“Consumer prices in March were up 3.3% from a year ago. That's the biggest annual increase in almost two years. Prices jumped nine tenths of a percent between February and March with a spike in gasoline prices accounting for nearly three quarters of that increase.”

“Ed O'Brien from Radiohead. When you listen to his solo album, you really understand his contribution to Radiohead. He's the guy who's creating the entire sonic vibe of the band's sound. He's the sound designer behind the scenes, and he's somebody who has always been comfortable, kind of receded into the background. If you watch concert footage or see performances of them, he'll be leaning down, turning knobs, and playing with wires and stuff like that, but less comfortable being forward-facing.”

“US stocks rose today even though oil prices did too. The national average for a gallon of regular gas is $4.17. It's NPR. Pro Iran groups are using AI to create slick Internet memes in English to try to shape the narrative during the war against The US and Israel.”

“During their fiery reentry, the astronauts will be protected by their spacecraft's heat shield. But for it to work, flight controllers have to make sure that the capsule comes in at exactly the right flight path angle. Let's not, beat around the bush. We have to hit that angle correctly. Otherwise, we're not gonna have a successful reentry.”

“They risked their lives. It was a one in 20 chance that those heat shields wouldn't work on the way back because they were flawed heat shields and they'd had in the test flight. This crew of four people still did it. What you realize is these people will go for it because if this didn't happen now, it would happen two years from now and these astronauts might not get the chance again. They had CO2 scrubbers that were getting, it's like a rebreather.”

“It does take incredible guts and strength and focus, and I appreciate those things too. But I think to be really strong, you have to have humility. I think often force is mistaken for strength. Strength is something totally different than that. It includes humility. So that's my only concern, my only note. My only note for NASA is make sure we're humble about this.”

“Zoom and I do breakfast bros on the weekends. We were sharing a blueberry muffin waiting for our plate of food to come. I just got struck with one of those lightning bolt moments, we all have them, where you realize, actually, this is the only thing that matters. Everything else I'm obsessed with in my life makes no difference at all. These moments, this moment here, I'm going to be thinking about this moment. I don't think I'll ever forget a moment like that.”

“When it came time to provide the logistical and other support The United States needed in Iran, some allies were a bit slow, to say the least. In fairness, they were also a bit surprised. To maintain the element of surprise for the initial strikes, president Trump opted not to inform allies ahead of time, and I understand that.”

“Pro Iran groups are using AI to create slick Internet memes in English to try to shape the narrative during the war against The US and Israel. The videos often come in the form of cartoons that lambast US officials. They appear to be coming from groups linked to the government in Tehran and are part of a strategy of leveraging its limited resources to inflict damage on The US.”

“There's an evil-gazing self-obsession that comes with the self-improvement, personal development space, and self-obsession is an antagonist to personal growth. And so the narcissistic, kind of ego-centric aspect of being in this state or in this pressurized situation where you feel like you always have to be improving yourself, I don't think it's necessarily healthy and I plead guilty. Not only am I participating in this, I'm a purveyor of it.”

“Mike D from the Beastie Boys, proud citizen of Malibu, sort of an icon in Malibu. He has an album coming out soon, Mike D5D, and he did a live performance in Malibu last Thursday. They took over that whole parking lot, and he performed an unpublicized, if you live in Malibu, you know kind of thing, like all of Point Doom showed up for this. There's probably like 300 people.”

“Lufthansa flights are facing a major disruption today after cabin crew staged another one day strike. Operations at Frankfurt and Munich airports have been hit especially hard with tens of thousands of passengers affected by delays and cancellations.”

“Returning from space is risky. The spacecraft will reach speeds up to 25,000 miles per hour and could experience temperatures of up to 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit once it hits the atmosphere. It will take thirteen minutes for the capsule to splash down under a canopy of parachutes.”

“The cash strapped US Postal Service is seeking approval to raise the price of first class mail beginning in July. The agency received temporary approval to raise prices for priority mail deliveries later this month by 8% to offset the cost of fuel.”

“So many of the podcast hosts who are in my genre, not all of them, but I'm saying there's a lot of them. These guys are dorks. It's just gotten so boring where everybody wants to improve you, or it's become uninteresting. Now, there's so many of them and everyone wants to improve you, and it's almost like, you know what? Why don't we just all relax a little bit? Maybe the improvement we all need is to stop thinking about ourselves for a little while.”

“It is the consistent refrain of every astronaut who has had that experience when they come back, when you have that perspective of the Earth from such a distance, you realize, oh, it's a spaceship, we're all on it together, it's so small, we have more in common than our differences. They repeat that, and we understand that intellectually, but there's something so experiential about that, because it's so moving for them, like it changes them. I wish we could be changed just by hearing them reflect that back to us.”

“The agreement resolves litigation from last year challenging the Trump administration's attempt to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services through executive action. It ensures that grants will continue, workers will keep their jobs, and it puts an end to attempts by the administration to further target the institute.”

“High level talks are set to begin in Pakistan this weekend as US and Iranian officials meet to discuss a ceasefire plan. Security is tight in Islamabad where authorities are locking down parts of the capital ahead of the meetings.”