Adam Sandler was 23 when he joined the show, and Conan O'Brien says people at the network weren't thrilled and didn't get him, so Lorne Michaels was probably getting pressure along the lines of "what's with the Adam guy?" Conan says the same revisionist history applies to Norm Macdonald, whom everyone loves now but who got fired. Looking back, everything seems inevitable, like Franklin Roosevelt becoming president, but at the time it could have gone a million different ways.

Adam Grant defines a vibe as the quality of connection between two people. A vibe differs from the way a lot of people talk about vibe, where a place has a vibe or someone loves her vibe. Science shows a vibe is less something you give off and more something you create in your interactions with other people.

Five great extinction events appear in the fossil record. A great extinction event destroys 70 or 80 percent of all species on Earth. The Permian extinction destroyed maybe 90 or 95 percent of all species on Earth. Most of what remained after the Permian extinction were sponges and fungi. No large life survived the Permian extinction.

Ed Zitron says Anthropic loses billions of dollars, fewer billions than OpenAI, and the latest quarter of its S-1 is blank. An S-1 is the filing a company sends the Securities and Exchange Commission when it is about to go public.

The figures he says a reader needs in order to understand Anthropic only go through June 30. Anthropic shared many of the numbers with investors at an investor day two weeks earlier, which he takes as the retail buyer being left out. He says the company scraped through the second quarter with a light profit because Elon Musk discounted its compute at SpaceX for two months, and that only some of the compute belongs to SpaceX.

Ramin Karimloo says the hard part of parenting while performing is energy, not only the voice. A curtain that comes down at midnight and a child up at 6:30 leave about six hours of sleep, and the morning starts at full speed whether or not he is speaking. When he is alone on a job in Japan, the pace is slower because he only has himself to protect. At home, telling a child he cannot play because he is resting his voice makes him feel guilty. He describes looking outside, seeing a child shooting basketball alone, and going out even though he was tired from filming. They had a good afternoon. His lesson is to say yes sooner.

Incompetent people lack the expertise to recognize that they are incompetent. We can observe this in other people, but it is very hard to see it in one self. We might think we are doing great at something, while in fact be doing it quite poorly.

Paige DeSorbo heard her name at a Miami college football game, and it was Bethenny Frankel. They had never met. Bethenny said hello as if Paige should have told her she was coming, and asked what Paige was doing there. Paige said she was last minute and that she had thought she was going to a basketball game.

Bethenny sat next to her the whole time. Paige thought her daughter was cute and nice. Someone then said the cheerleading team wanted to meet Paige, and she went down and met them. A camera guy offered the Jumbotron. She had never been on one, and she had no drink to chug. He said the shot would be on her for five seconds. She was glad she had not worn the turquoise dress, because she

Ultimately, it is what citizens must do. Regardless of beliefs, the number of citizens voting is woefully small. The next generation must be educated on the importance of decision making.

In the chalet shower, Belinda whispers thanks while the Duchess's hands are on her. The Duchess frowns, steps out, and picks up the riding crop she had left on the washbasin. Belinda is to address her as "my lady" and nothing else. To make the point, the Duchess flicks the crop across Belinda's right buttock and leaves a red mark. Belinda jumps, grimaces, and says, "Thank you, my lady." The Duchess answers, "That's better, servant." The hosts file the scene under kink and say this chapter feels different from the maze. The required name is "my lady." The crop is how she enforces it.

Alan Watts wrote a book in 1952 about the age of anxiety, and the description of how much the world was changing sounds like 2026. The movement is two steps up and one step back, then three steps up and two steps back.

Pinker's work suggests the long change is generally for the better, while the middle of it feels helpless and scattered. Boomers often picture the 1950s as a time when a man, a woman, a job, and kids all made sense, yet Alan Watts was already calling 1952 the age of anxiety.

Andrew Garfield, who is playing Roy Horn in an upcoming Apple TV show, says Roy hit a button as he woke up and it sent a bell into the garden to let the tiger know it was time to come and snuggle. The tiger came into the house, jumped on the bed, and they snuggled to wake Roy up.