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Media & Celebrity:  Hunter Biden's Accidental Week of Self-Sabotage He sat for two of the most unusual interviews in recent memory — with Candace Owens , and then with Soft White Underbelly . He answered questions politely . That's about the most charitable thing anyone can say about how it went. If you've been scrolling YouTube this week and noticed the same face appearing in two very different thumbnails, you're not imagining things. Hunter Biden — son of former president Joe Biden , convicted felon, recovering addict, and now something of a strange media fixture — sat for not one but two lengthy interviews in the same week. One was with Candace Owens, who until recently spent years publicly mocking him . The other was with Soft White Underbelly, a YouTube channel run by a man named Mark Laita , who has built a large and devoted following by interviewing people in difficult circumstances with a style best described as unfiltered . If you're not ...

Ohio's Got a Billfold and a Backstory Ohio just made history, and it did it quietly — the way Ohio does things . On May 22, 2026, Ohio Treasurer Robert Sprague announced the Buckeye Billfold initiative , which will enable Ohio residents to make payments to state agencies using a digital wallet, including those made with digital currency . Ohio is now, by its own account, the first state to successfully authorize and promote statewide agency use and acceptance of digital asset payments . Congratulations, Buckeye State. Pull up a chair. We have questions. Let's talk about the mechanics, because this is where it gets interesting — and where a lot of headlines are going to get it wrong . When making a payment, whatever digital currency you use will then be converted to U.S. currency . That's the part that deserves a slow read. Ohio isn't actually holding your Bitcoin , your ETH, or whatever asset you use. The state isn't becoming a digital as...

If you ever needed proof that civilization has peaked, look no further than the tiny volcanic island of Stromboli , where local officials have reportedly decided that Wednesdays are now a complete musical dead zone . That’s right. No singing. No dancing. No public music. On Wednesdays , the island apparently transforms from Mediterranean paradise into the world’s most aggressively enforced dentist waiting room. Honestly, it’s the most shocking attack on rhythm since your uncle tried karaoke after three limoncellos and turned Stayin’ Alive into a hostage negotiation. However, Stromboli is famous for its volcano. ( The mountain literally erupts on schedule more reliably than most classic rock drummers from the 1970s .) So maybe officials thought the island already had enough natural percussion. “Do we really need bongos,” they asked, “when the earth itself is dropping bass?” Still, banning music on Wednesdays feels oddly specific. Why Wednesdays? Did somebody finally snap...

Your Attorney Is Using ChatGPT and Charging You $400 an Hour On lawyers, language models, and what happens when you try to pay your retainer in Polkadot Let's have a frank conversation about your attorney. Not your attorney specifically — perish the thought — but the general category of person who passed one very long multiple-choice exam, hung a sign, and is now billing you $400 an hour to have a chatbot draft your LLC operating agreement. Welcome to the modern American legal system, where the fox is not merely guarding the henhouse ; the fox has subscribed to an AI platform and is monetizing the chickens at a premium rate. The dirty secret of small private practice is that most  non-legacy attorneys are operating without the gilded infrastructure of BigLaw . No paralegal army. No secretary who quietly fixes their grammar. No $800-a-month legal research database keeping them current on case law . Westlaw and LexisNexis charge fees that would make a h...

Walk, Walk —  Lady Gaga and Doechii's   Runway is the summer anthem you'll either love without question or spend the rest of the season interrogating. Possibly both. There is a moment in the music video for Runway — the new Lady Gaga and Doechii collaboration from The Devil Wears Prada 2 soundtrack — where the whole thing tips just slightly past spectacle and into something harder to name . The runway is impossibly long. The looks are architecturally absurd. The strut is impeccable. And you cannot quite tell whether these two women are celebrating fashion's theater or quietly eating it alive. On pure sound, the song delivers everything you want from a summer Billboard entry. The track is booming with in-your-face bass and filled with the exact type of rizz anyone about to hit a runway would want to hear . It opens with the spoken command, "No matter what, you better strut," which is simultaneously an instruction, a dare, and a kind of absurdist pe...

Cedar Falls Says No To Digital Currency Mining The Cedar Falls , Iowa , city council voted unanimously this week to reject proposed zoning ordinance changes that would have allowed digital currency mining facilities in the city's industrial districts. The council followed the recommendation of the city's Planning and Zoning Commission, sending the proposal back without approval. The vote was decisive , but the conversation around digital asset mining in Cedar Falls appears to be far from over. The proposal was connected to discussions about a potential facility from a company called Simple Mining . Adam Haynes, founder and CEO of Simple Mining, addressed the council and argued that the proposed facility would bring jobs and additional property tax revenue to the city . That's a familiar pitch in the digital asset mining space — operations of this scale do employ workers in facility management, electrical maintenance, and security, and they generate taxable infr...

There are certain moments in sports highlights where reality bends so hard it feels like somebody slipped something into the India Pale Ale  22-ounce draft. (In a move that sounds less like NFL strategy and more like a late-night FM radio caller ranting over the outro to White Rabbit ...) The Pittsburgh Steelers have apparently re-signed Aaron Rodgers . Re-signed him . Which implies incorrectly that we all remembered he was here in the first place. Hello, older pop radio listeners; you've been through a lot. You survived disco backlash, the transition from vinyl to CDs, and the horrifying realization that classic rock stations now play Nirvana . But asking America to emotionally process Aaron Rodgers in Pittsburgh is an AI bridge too far. Half the city still talks about Terry Bradshaw like he’s warming up in the parking lot. The other half is trying to remember if Rodgers already played a season here, or if that was just a peyote vision during a weather delay. An...