This week's running order...

I’m voting for Keith…

Location:

AC: Lake Geneva SW: Sick Bay

Involuntary Sponsor of the Week:

Armand Duplantis - world record pole vaulter. No, not that one. Competes for the Swedes
Messi of Pole Vaulting - Duplantis is the world outdoor and indoor record holder (6.25 metres or 20 feet 6 inches, and 6.22 metres or 20 feet 5 inches, respectively), two-time Olympic (2020 and 2024) champion, two-time World outdoor (2022 and 2023) and indoor champion, and current European champion. World Athletics pays 100K for each world record breaking. 9x. By a centimeter at a time.

The Zeitgeist:

Ace as a white bearded man (and Mayor)
Funerals: put me on a paddle board, fire burning arrows at me
Funerals: Exit here - cool funeral parlors
Coaching Gen Z on how to make phone calls - Doctor’s appointments
"Holidays in July" - healthy capitalism or ailing economy?
Stop Pretending You’re Not Rich - British Classism is more honest than American Classism, the top 1% is actually the top 15%, and there’s more of a “wealth trap” than a “poverty trap”: Opinion | Stop Pretending You’re Not Rich - The New York Times
Southwest moves away from open seating https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/travel/southwest-open-boarding-change-reactions.html

Envoy Tank Radio: Breaking the boundaries between civilian and military…

The Ukrainians have F-16s. Now what?… Robot Dogs: https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1822234280287736298
And the spies’ kids who thought they were Argentinian, not Russian. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cljyj9jp993o

Travel Section:

Perri's Scope Observations from Lord Young

The jet pack- the unseen force that drives you. Whether it be toward a specific goal or toward a belief
Neil deGrasse Tyson responds to Terrance Howard https://medium.com/@Matthew_Thomas/neil-degrasse-tyson-responds-to-terrence-howard-ace99b356c13. The Dunning-Kruger Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
New star in the night sky - the star in the Conronea Borealis constellation which is 3,000 light years away will explode in a Nova between now and September and will be visible in the night sky for a week. This is a recurrent Nova, exploding every 40 years. https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/marshall/nasa-global-astronomers-await-rare-nova-explosion/

Tools for Tools:

We’re the tools and these are some of the tools we use in our world…

Yelling at Clouds

NOT HAVING AN EMAIL SIGNATURE. ESPECIALLY NOT HAVING A CELL PHONE NUMBER IN YOUR SIGNATURE (ACE's caps, not Scott's...)
If you have “visionary” in your LI profile description, the odds of me replying - unless you’re an oracle or a fortune teller - are very small

Coordinates Next Week(s):

Home for Labor Day weekend, then off to the Badlands of South Dakota...