Over the weekend, in a long thoughtful feature on ADHD, the New York Times tackled the question of whether we should be prescribing 23% of adolescent male Americans with amphetamines. The downsides: they triple your likelihood of developing mania, permanently stunt your growth, often conclude in daily depressive crashes, and don’t really work after 14 months. The upside: they help you sit still in class and finish various tasks like a lab rat. There’s no known biological basis for ADHD because inability to care about school is not an actual disease, no matter what a bunch of drug dealers with doctorates tell a young boy’s worried parents. One of the classic symptoms is the ability to focus, but only on what you find interesting. That isn’t a pathology, that’s a personality, and Adderall isn’t medicine. It’s a drug we use to turn young, thoughtful men into robots. Put down the “good meth,” and go outside.

Sunday, Bloomberg reported that Apple’s “Vision Products Group” is stressed out. After an AI-related reshuffling and the commercial failure of their only product (sales for the $3,500 Vision Pro are a fraction of projections), they fear layoffs. Honestly, it’s sad to watch. While Apple trails in the AI race, defenders point to Vision Pro as evidence it can still deliver “miraculous,” category-defining products. But it’s starting to look as “miraculous” as the shuttered car project: $10 billion+ spent on a road to nowhere. With their proposed augmented reality glasses many years away, VPG’s most exciting plans are… not exciting. They want to make two more headset models — one that’s less heavy (lol) and one that you can plug into a Mac, thus reducing lag time and sorry I can’t finish describing it because I died of boredom. And this is the group that’s supposed to represent Apple’s next frontier? So much for thinking different.

The California Insurance Commissioner has apparently been blowing extravagant sums of cash on lavish dinners and conferences while dodging hearings on the state’s deadly fires. Ricardo Lara — birthright citizen and world-record holder as California’s first openly LGBTQ+ statewide official — is running a fake campaign for lieutenant governor, complete with a shell committee bankrolling his opulent tastes: like $700 on “sea urchin and lobster salpicó” with insurance CEOs, $1,002 on martinis for a “campaign strategy meeting,” and $30k+ on 46 trips around the globe — including a recent conference at a five-star Caribbean resort where he ducked a key briefing on wildfires. Top Democratic consultants say Lara is the “poster boy” for campaign finance reform and “f*cking the state” as citizens struggle to afford insurance, but if you ask me: he sounds like a great gay time. RIP California. Your state may be burning, but so is Ricardo’s passion for life!

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