¶Looks like Trump’s media/tech company “filed for trademarks on ‘Truthing,’ ‘Retruth,’ ‘Post a Truth’ and ‘Follow the Truth.’”

¶Using “truth” in a trademark, while prohibiting disparagement of himself (see #23 on the site’s Terms of Use) is very on brand for Trump.

¶”…when all the painting’s done, it’ll be the largest artwork of its kind in the country. It’s called the Glass City River Wall.”

¶This is a great story about a pretty cool thing happening in my hometown — a massive art installation that was born from a simple idea.

¶“Here we provide evidence that the Vikings were present in Newfoundland in AD 1021.”

¶Science sorting out history. Now the question becomes, how long will it take history to apply the science and teach this to children?

¶“Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse....The coming name change…is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail.”

¶I’m not sure that an effort to focus on the metaverse will help Facebook’s real branding challenge — the distrust people have for the company. Telling people that the company is “bigger than social media” and wants to “build the metaverse” will probably hurt the level of trust people have for Facebook, not help it. Especially when so many people have no idea what the “metaverse” is. It does sound scary and all-encompassing, though.

¶This seems like a great way to get environmental issues in front of American consumers. It’s not without risk, though, and could backfire. Plastic products are essentially invisible to the experience now. If the substitutes are somehow inferior (warm beer, anyone?), they may negatively impact the experience of going to a game, and fans will notice. Here’s hoping all goes well.

¶This would be fun…for about ten minutes.

¶MLB and NHL have made it nearly impossible to be a fan of your local teams in the streaming era. Since Hulu (our streaming provider) dropped the Sinclair (formerly Fox) regional sports networks, we’ve essentially been shut out of watching local broadcasts of the Indians (are they officially the Guardians yet?) and Red Wings. It’s miserable. And while this article brings welcome news, it doesn’t sound like a solution will be available anytime soon. We might have to re-up with cable for now. Ugh.

¶Hutchinson is right — the GOP is at a “past v. future” crossroads. It’s a little weird, too, because its newest members, the Trumpers, want to steer it back to the past on instruction from their overlord, while some of its long-standing members, those that came to the party long ago for the core principles of fiscal responsibility and small government, realize they’ve been duped and are trying to move to the beyond the trump nightmare.

¶“Polyakov’s analysis suggested that the four quarks banded together for a glorious 12 sextillionths of a second before an energy fluctuation conjured up two extra quarks and the group disintegrated into three mesons.”

¶The contrast between the precision of “12 sextillitionths of a second” and the vagueness of “an energy fluctuation” that “conjures up two extra quarks” is somewhat hilarious. This is fascinating otherwise.

¶Little boy buying hamburger Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer

¶About today’s cover image — it’s from the Library of Congress, and appears to be from a government collection with no limitations on use. Boy there’s a lot of great public domain photographs just lying around in searchable, online collections. I need to start using more of these.