I felt similarly to Dan Hon about the current European heat wave feeling well described in advance by Kim Stanley Robinson in The Ministry for the Future. But also about John Oliver’s hog culling segment as it related to some early framing in Termination Shock. https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s21e07-anything-llms-can-do-i-can-do-better/ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/world/europe/europe-heat-wave-photos.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGazYSkFFMw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_Shock_(novel)

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Reading the news is hard. https://machination.org/2026/06/01/reading-the-news-is-hard/