Laura L. Griffin

Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

Dopey52: Injecting Wellbutrin, Bad LSD Trip, ”The Cage”, ER Visit, Nick Reiner, Rob Reiner

This 2016 interview with Nick Reiner includes a tragic, sweet anecdote ~51:00 about Rob Reiner talking him down from a bad acid trip. open.spotify.com/episode/4zfw...

Gift link not working for me on mobile, fyi. (Browser nor Bluesky)

I think the the governor of Utah is actually the one who said that, but point taken.

I must know, what kind of art did he own?

Anybody have any insight into why the Internet @archive.org's Wayback Machine is "facing some limitations when it comes to archiving" X.com posts?