Althouse: Sunrise.

June 13, 2026

Sunrise.

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50 comments:

Mason G said...: Good news on the "affordability" front, gas at the corner market is down again today.

Even leftists can celebrate that, right?; 6/13/26, 6:21 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Dry air, no smoke, golden sun.; 6/13/26, 6:48 PM
Narr said...: I lost intertubez access Wednesday and only got it back this afternoon.

It's good to see that the sun continues to rise over Lake Mendota.; 6/13/26, 6:50 PM
narciso said...: The sun set is beautiful; 6/13/26, 7:03 PM
Achilles said...: discuss is there anything special about the shape of the json output from the CLI to the API endpoint?

● No. Nothing special.

The Claude Code CLI sends a standard POST https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages with a standard
JSON body:

{
"model": "claude-sonnet-4-20250514",
"max_tokens": 8192,
"system": "system prompt here",
"messages": [
{"role": "user", "content": "user message"},
{"role": "assistant", "content": [
{"type": "tool_use", "id": "toolu_xxx", "name": "read_file", "input": {"path": "/foo"}}
]},
{"role": "user", "content": [
{"type": "tool_result", "tool_use_id": "toolu_xxx", "content": "file contents here"}
]}
],
"tools": [
{"name": "read_file", "description": "...", "input_schema": {"type": "object", "properties":
{...}}}
]
}

Response comes back:

{
"content": [
{"type": "text", "text": "Here's what I found..."},
{"type": "tool_use", "id": "toolu_yyy", "name": "write_file", "input": {"path": "/bar",
"content": "..."}}
],
"stop_reason": "tool_use",
"usage": {"input_tokens": 1234, "output_tokens": 567}
}

That's the entire API surface. The CLI wraps this in a tool turn loop, context management, checks, MCP server orchestration — all stuff we've already built our own versions of in AgentExecutor.

Good luck. Have fun. Don't die.; 6/13/26, 7:54 PM
Quayle said...: Hydration break is stupid.; 6/13/26, 8:29 PM
JK Brown said...: I came across this paper from 2023 on how work stability changed for late Boomers (1957-1964) and we can presume it is worse for younger men. Only 41% of men had work from ages 27-49 without significant periods of unemployment.

It is well documented that stable employment is a significant factor in men marrying and avoiding divorce. But boys are still told they must find and keep a job or they are losers. That's 70 years of young men being held to standards that are no longer achievable except for the few.

"Over the past several decades, U.S. men’s paid work has transformed from a state of high stability and continuity to a state of increased instability and precarity. Despite this, full-time employment throughout adulthood remains the presumed standard for modern American men. The authors investigated the diversity of men’s workforce experiences using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth “National Longitudinal Survey of Youth - 1979 cohort” and identified six multitrajectories of men’s time spent employed, unemployed, and out of the labor force from ages 27 to 49. The authors identified one multitrajectory of steady work, three of increasing unemployment or time out of work, one of increasing steady work, and one of intermittent work. Contrary to conventional assumptions, only 41 percent of men followed a trajectory of continuous, high employment over the duration of their prime earning years. This suggests that most men do not achieve the “ideal worker norm,” raising implications for how research and policy conceptualize men’s work experiences."

---The Myth of Men’s Stable, Continuous Labor Force Attachment: Multitrajectories of U.S. Baby Boomer Men’s Employment, 2023, PMCID: PMC11219017; 6/13/26, 8:49 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Why is Donald Trump’s newly repainted reflecting pool already spouting green algae?

We are winning the war against algae like we are winning the war against Iran.; 6/13/26, 9:24 PM
Original Mike said...: "The sun set is beautiful"

It is remarkable.
And there are 10^24 of them in the observable universe. Highly varied; stellar physics is fascinating.; 6/13/26, 9:39 PM
Eva Marie said...: Washington Post:
“National Park Service/Interior officials have said the current bloom is “residual algae from the supply lines” that flared up right after refilling and that crews are actively removing it.“; 6/13/26, 10:13 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: KNICKS TOO GOOD! Stick with winners, SPURS blew 16 point lead again ,too inexperienced ,they'll get better ,even with a 10 foot guy. My family in New York celebrating bigly!; 6/13/26, 10:32 PM
Big Mike said...: Mason G said...

Good news on the "affordability" front, gas at the corner market is down again today.

Here in the Shenandoah Valley gasoline has dropped to 20 cents a gallon below its peak during the Biden years. However the wife and I drove into very, very deep blue Fairfax County for an annual checkup, and one gas station was gouging its customers to the tune of $4.89 and most were above $4.00.; 6/13/26, 11:44 PM
Eva Marie said...: Book recommendation:
The Attack by Kurt Schlicter
“Jihadist terrorists exploit a weak presidency to launch a devastating attack on American soil.”
relatively short 353 pages.
Very interesting.; 6/14/26, 12:36 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I like the top pic best.; 6/14/26, 12:44 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Video: Animals deciding how many eyes they want

Nature is full of comedic material. We just have to use our eyes.; 6/14/26, 12:58 AM
wendybar said...: "We have a very weird relationship with race in this country, one where white people have been bullied into only talking about other races in apologetic tones, like we did something to everyone else. We didn’t.

I, for one, am sick of watching videos of “teen takeovers” on the news and pretending that 90- plus percent of the “teens” share a characteristic beyond their presumed age. How do you address a problem if you aren’t willing to talk about it honestly?

I’m willing, so let’s go."

https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/06/14/lets-have-a-serious-conversation-about-race-n2677727; 6/14/26, 2:18 AM
wendybar said...: One Bad Dude
@OneBadDude_
·
13h
I’ve heard more liberals complain about the Reflecting Pool being cleaned than the crap in the streets of San Francisco.
https://x.com/OneBadDude_/status/2065584938313801970?s=20; 6/14/26, 2:20 AM
Saint Croix said...: Best sports movies...

Baseball: Bang the Drum Slowly A+
Basketball: Hustle A-
Football: I am withholding judgment until I watch Harold Lloyd in The Freshman
Boxing: Rocky A
Golf: Caddyshack A+
Ice Hockey: Happy Gilmore A+ (hockey movies suck but they're better if we cheat)
Soccer Victory B+
Ping Pong: Marty Supreme A+
Figure Skating: I, Tonya A+
Bicyling: Breaking Away A-
Bowling: The Big Lebowski A-
Auto Racing: Rush A-
Wrestling: Win Win A-
Horse Racing: A Day at the Races A+
Surfing: Step Into Liquid A+; 6/14/26, 2:25 AM
Saint Croix said...: I forgot Tennis! Wimbledon A; 6/14/26, 2:27 AM
Meade said...: “We are winning the war against algae like we are winning the war against Iran.“

Good. After 47 years, it’s about time! Thank you, President Trump! Peace be upon you. May you continue to live long and prosper algae-free and liberty-rich.; 6/14/26, 2:49 AM
Saint Croix said...: My top 10 stand-up specials:

Adam Sandler: Love You A+
Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh A
Joe Rogan: Rocky Mountain High A-
Dave Chappelle: Sticks and Stones A-
Seth Meyers: Lobby Baby A-
Norm Macdonald: Me Doing Standup A-
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert B+
Chris Rock: Bring the Pain B+
Taylor Tomlinson: Quarter-Life Crisis B+
Sam Morril: Crowdwork B+; 6/14/26, 3:22 AM
Saint Croix said...: Democrats put tits on a bull.; 6/14/26, 3:35 AM
wendybar said...: Jack
@jackunheard
·
13h
I’d take 100,000 UFC arenas over this

https://x.com/jackunheard/status/2065886732050944213?s=20; 6/14/26, 4:00 AM
wendybar said...: The Dank Knight 🦇
@capeandcowell
·
20h
Amazed at how many left wing politicians living off my taxes are upset that Elon earned his money

https://x.com/capeandcowell/status/2065774897238839346?s=20; 6/14/26, 4:03 AM
planetgeo said...: Achilles, claude-sonnet-4-20250514 has been retired. I suggest updating to sonnet 4.6 at least.; 6/14/26, 4:39 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: “ Amazed at how many left wing politicians living off my taxes are upset that Elon earned his money”

It’s not their salaries that are the real problem. You hear about them accumulating, say, $6 million, from their $175k salary. That’s not what is happening. Living in DC, N VA, MD, etc, significantly less than half of it is left over after normal living expenses, esp rent/mtg. That $6 million (etc) is inevitably a result of some sort of graft or other corrupt means, like Pelosi’s infamous inside trading.

And, yes, it’s mostly Dem politicians, because of their much more likely life on the public teat, instead of making their money first, and leaving after a couple terms. The average Dem politician in DC starts his career somehow working his way up from an entry level government job, then into a public office, then rises through the Dem party hierarchy, to a job in Congress. And then may stay there until carted out, feet first, after dying in office. Republicans much more often build a real, non-government, career, then enters politics, and may only stay there in DC a decade or so, before going back home.

The last Dem President who made his money first, was Jimmy Carter. Before that was LBJ, JFK, and FDR, who had money before they became President. Biden, Obama, and Clinton all followed the model of spending their lives in politics, then retiring multimillionaires. Contrasted to Trump, the Bushes, and Reagan, who made their money before becoming President.; 6/14/26, 4:45 AM
john mosby said...: Ref Wendy's Derek Hunter post, high black crime isn't about race, it's about ghettoized race. If we still kept Irish, Italians, or Jews in segregated areas, they'd be killing each other too. There may be a small factor of sub-Saharan tribal culture filtered through Southern US Scots-Irish 'born fighting' culture amplifying black violence. But German-Americans aren't broken up into small principalities fighting each other, and Scots-Irish Americans are much less violent than they once were, even with the occasional Florida Man. Why? Because they aren't concentrated into areas where their leaders take advantage of their votes and other groups stay the hell away.

So how to de-ghettoize blacks? The gerrymandering reform is a good start. Cuts down on the number of black Dem politicians hustling race. Another hobbyhorse I have ridden close to death: don't let people escape to the suburbs. Keep expanding the city boundaries so well-off blacks can't escape responsibility for their left-behind compadres, black politicians are forced to deal with non-black politicians and voters, and whites can't flee the whole mess. Unify city councils, county boards, schools, courts, policing, and all other local services so that you have middle-class people demanding these institutions work, which benefits the underclass and avoids the Curley Effect. Mixed local governing bodies might also encourage scrutiny of Learing Centers and ghost hospices.

Other hobbyhorses in my stable: Postmodern Homestead Act. Enact incentives to break up ghettos by offering hinterland housing - kind of a nationwide scattered Section 8. American Janissary Act would offer boarding-school education, both academic and vocational, to poor yewts, far away from the other poor yewts. Hard to have a teen takeover when there aren't any teens. CC, JSM; 6/14/26, 4:47 AM
wendybar said...: Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
Really amazing that all it took was a basketball game for all of New York City to forget that there is a genocide happening in Gaza 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️
11:39 PM · Jun 13, 2026
https://x.com/redsteeze/status/2066002521718653077?s=20; 6/14/26, 4:48 AM
planetgeo said...: Eva Marie, that “residual algae from the supply lines” is pretty much like IEE's nightly propaganda here at the Althouse reflecting pool. Very resistant to eradication efforts and from a never ending supply of leftist scum.; 6/14/26, 4:51 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: Dems being butt hurt over the algae is because they don’t view it as solving a problem, but eliminating an opportunity for graft. Fixing the problem ends the opportunity for graft. Thus the NYC subway that took a century to dig, and the CA high speed train from nowhere to nowhere, that has a quickly expanding expected cost and quickly lengthening completion date.; 6/14/26, 4:56 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: Dems being butt hurt over the algae is because they don’t view it as solving a problem, but eliminating an opportunity for graft. Fixing the problem ends the opportunity for graft. Thus the NYC subway that took a century to dig, and the CA high speed train from nowhere to nowhere, that has a quickly expanding expected cost and quickly lengthening completion date.; 6/14/26, 4:56 AM
rehajm said...: …despite best efforts it’s still a stagnant shallow pool in a place where summer means green grows in flowing lakes and rivers. There’s many videos about how oysters are cleaning up the basin but they have a long way to go; 6/14/26, 5:11 AM
rehajm said...: yah when you know the results of the phase three are statistically significant before the public the dc office at goldman is already divvying up the allocations, then there’s the poor man politician grifts like lobbyist kickbacks shhh and maybe the book deal grift- no real person actually buys those books retail you know. If you’re big you get a Netflix narrator deal and they let you spew your leftover campaign rhetoric in a couple episodes. In return maybe they pay you or better still you get some equity or better still backdated equity because who’s gonna check…; 6/14/26, 5:19 AM
rehajm said...: technically they aren’t usually insiders they are utilizing material nonpublic information, specifically government controlled information. It really all depends on what the law says is illegal and since they’re the ones deciding what that is…; 6/14/26, 5:25 AM
Achilles said...: planetgeo said...

Achilles, claude-sonnet-4-20250514 has been retired. I suggest updating to sonnet 4.6 at least.

I have built agent adapters for quite a few models. It was just giving me an answer example.

Sonnet/flash is actually powerful enough for almost everything I need. context management > model. When I build node context blocks I tend to use opus/pro. kling/grok/codex mid models work just fine too; 6/14/26, 6:16 AM
lonejustice said...: Donald Trump's Pallets of Cash:

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/trump-pallets-cash-iran; 6/14/26, 7:06 AM
Eva Marie said...: @planetgeo: lol; 6/14/26, 7:17 AM
Dave Begley said...: Golf: Tin Cup.; 6/14/26, 7:57 AM
Meade said...: Boxing: When We Were Kings; 6/14/26, 8:04 AM
Meade said...: Wrestling: The Wrestler; 6/14/26, 8:13 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Iran has announced that no -- a deal will not be signed Monday, June 15th. It's sad when you have to read what the Iranians say before accepting anything that Trump says as being correct.; 6/14/26, 9:19 AM
Meade said...: Yeah, sad for Islamic Revolutionary Guard Cunts that they chose poorly to have the shit bombed out of themselves.; 6/14/26, 10:08 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Trump promised the war in Iran would end with unconditional surrender. But he never said which country would do the surrendering.

Logically, he would have taken this deal 50 days ago. Really, nothing has changed since then. The problem now (and it is a very serious one) is that anything he does now (walk away, shitty deal, bomb away) will make him look like a loser.

The big brains of Robert McNamara and Donald Rumsfeld did not help them in Vietnam and Iraq. Hegseth’s alleged nickname at the Pentagon, Dumb McNamara, rather undercuts itself.

To borrow from TS Eliot: ‘The last temptation is the greatest treason/to do the right thing for the wrong reason.’

Hegseth simply isn’t capable of that kind of nuance, he can’t or won’t weigh the morality of an action, whereas Robert McNamara and Anthony Eden obviously could, and did.

And nor can Trump, obviously, who can’t even tell an incursion from an excursion.

The Iran debacle is an excursion — it’s a cheap holiday and a lethal distraction from domestic woes, which is having tragic and laughable consequences, and has sucked the US into another terrible quagmire.

The cynicism and stupidity on display here has a reductive illogic all its own, and surely you must judge the process of the decision alongside the outcome itself.; 6/14/26, 10:43 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: The previous 45 times the Trump said he had a deal with Iran, he was wrong. That’s why I think he’s right this time ~ Meade (?); 6/14/26, 11:39 AM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: The difference to Competence and a documented plan to a Political deal to just get back to how it was originally with lies about immediate nuclear threat unverified by the people putting forth their proposal and the ones that worked for them.Present US administration)
What the JCPOA Actually Did (Obama-era deal)
JCPOA limits were extremely specific and enforceable:
Enrichment capped at 3.67%
Uranium stockpile cut by 98% (to 300 kg)
Centrifuges reduced from ~20,000 to ~5,000
Arak plutonium reactor disabled IAEA daily access, cameras, seals, 24/7 monitoring
Snapback sanctions if Iran violated terms
This was a nuclear engineering agreement, not a political one.
What the 2026 Draft Deal Actually Is
Based on Iran’s published 14‑point MoU and U.S. statements:
No enrichment cap
No centrifuge limits
No uranium stockpile limits
No inspection regime
No enforcement mechanism
Calls for 60 days of future negotiations to maybe create a nuclear deal
Focuses on ceasefire, sanctions freeze, asset release, and regional de-escalation, it’s not a nuclear deal, it’s a political truce.
Iran released a 14‑point MoU
This is not a treaty. It’s a political framework.
Ceasefire terms
U.S. sanctions freeze
Release of $24B in Iranian assets(pallets of $$$)
U.S. troop repositioning
Strait of Hormuz reopening(was always open before this boondoggle.)
But no nuclear limits.
U.S. statements are vague(flat out deception and market manipulation even today)
The U.S. keeps saying:
The deal is being signed today”
“It includes steps toward nuclear de-escalation”
But they have not released a text, just like bomb in 2 days ready to go)
Foreign Ministry: “Not being signed today.”
Hardliners: “No deal until Israel stops strikes.”
President’s office: “Talks are ongoing.”
Bibi says I ain't doing none of that ,bombed again and disobeying US.
Side-by-Side Comparison
Category JCPOA (2015) 2026 Draft Deal
Type Nuclear agreement Ceasefire + sanctions freeze
Enrichment 3.67% cap None
Centrifuges ~5,000 allowed No limits
Uranium stockpile 300 kg No limits
Inspections Full IAEA access None defined
Sanctions conditional Upfront freezes + asset release(PALLETS OF CASH )
Regional issues Not included Central to deal
Status Signed 2015 Draft, not finalized
JCPOA:
Hard numbers
Enforceable
Verified
Nuclear-only
Internationally backed

2026 draft:
No nuclear limits
No inspections
No enforcement
Mostly political
Iran itself says “not signed yet”
It’s not a nuclear deal — it’s a pause button and a fella who lies as the Monday markets open its on,its offI don't know 2 days 2 weeks,maybe Sunday definitely tomorrow,Best in the world.etc ad nauseum talk about Beaucoup Dinky Dau. What a cluster F*$.. Respect with venacular on the Lord's Day.Do the homework ,discuss SUNSET issues(how to extend and keep things under control)you didnt learn about bombin gin Nam,Iraq,Afghanistan,how did that work for ya? and lying about immediate threats never verified(you now WMD'S the War Mongers make up,,Yes Gulf of Tonkin ,my time TALKING HEADS "Same as it ever was" (David Byrne)Remember,especially under this administration "WE ARE ALL BOZO'S ON THIS BUS! God is in control,,the real peace.; 6/14/26, 11:51 AM
Meade said...: https://x.com/laurmeade/status/2066201824059687042?s=46; 6/14/26, 12:02 PM
Mason G said...: "Ice Hockey: Happy Gilmore A+ (hockey movies suck but they're better if we cheat)"

Slapshot is good if you like that sort of humor, but what about Miracle? IMO, it doesn't suck.; 6/14/26, 12:15 PM
Rustygrommet said...: I see the kids are still whining about the pony they didn't get.

Which players have left the table?; 6/14/26, 1:04 PM
boatbuilder said...: Happy Gilmore a hockey movie? Wha?; 6/14/26, 1:54 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Trump clearly must have said someday not Sunday.; 6/14/26, 3:24 PM