True story. Unable to sleep, President Richard Nixon visited the Lincoln Memorial around 4:30 am with his valet, doctor, and Secret Service detail 56 years ago today. Meeting students who were in #WashingtonDC to protest his policies, Nixon tried but failed to connect with them. The Lincoln Memorial remains open 24 hours a day for anyone seeking a moment of quiet reflection or a chance encounter with strangers.
I made a chart in my newsletter looking at minimum wage in an all-day restaurant with 10 servers x 12 shifts x 365 days a year - just shows how things add up.
Wanted to share a personal project I've been working on: I love classic literature, and I'm also taking an AI class here at UIUC, so I trained an LLM from scratch on Victorian lit from 1837 to 1899. This is Mr. Chatterbox, the Victorian Gentleman Chatbot: https://t.co/U88DY33sAU
Apparently running old stories in the print edition of @washingtonpost wasn’t an error but a new strategy for filling the paper with no staff. Take this Retropolis column today:
After 157 years, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has ended its print edition with its final issue published on December 31, 2025.
The shift makes Atlanta the only major U.S. city without a daily printed newspaper.