05 Jul 2026
Rosemary potatoes
2 lbs. yellow or red potatoes
1 large or 2 medium onions
1 head garlic
6-8 sprigs fresh rosemary
Olive oil
1 tbsp. kosher salt
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F, with convection on.
Scrub the potatoes and remove any bad spots but leave as much skin as possible on. Chop into bite-sized pieces. For crisper potatoes, dry the potato pieces on a paper towel.
Peel the onion and chop into large chunks.
Peel the garlic cloves.
Pull rosemary leaves off the sticks, discard sticks, and chop coarsely.
Place potatoes, onions, garlic, and rosemary in a 9 in. × 13 in. glass baking dish. Sprinkle with the salt. Add olive oil and stir until all exposed potato surfaces are shiny.
Bake for 20 minutes, stir, then bake for 20 more minutes. Taste and add more salt if needed before serving.
Leftovers can be heated in a frying pan and served as breakfast potatoes.
Not much extra work: rosemary chicken
3 lbs chicken thighs (with bones, skin on)
6-8 more sprigs fresh rosemary
sea salt to taste
Chop the rosemary as above.
Put a piece of parchment paper on a cookie sheet. Wash and thoroughly dry the chicken thighs and arrange on the sheet, skin side up, not touching as much as possible. Sprinkle with sea salt and chopped rosemary.
Put in the oven when the potatoes go in and remove about when the potatoes come out, or when thickest part is 165 degrees F.
If the rosemary bush continues to obstruct sight lines, buy more of remaining ingredients and plan to trim it again.
Bonus links
The
Military and the Republic by Charles Q. Brown, Jr., Peter D. Feaver,
and Andrew Kragie. Given his immense personal popularity, [George
Washington] was often encouraged to redress this or that political
dysfunction, but he knew that the republic would suffer in the long run
if the military were to become an instrument of the commander’s will
rather than of the people’s elected leaders.
How
to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots Jennifer Ouellette
interviews Cory Doctorow. The thing that made the web profitable was
not that it was unprofitable; it was things like good unit economics,
where every time someone started using the web, the web got less
unprofitable. Every time a web user used the web again, the total
profits generated went up. Every generation of web technology made the
web more profitable. That’s the opposite of AI
Celebrate this Fourth (or Fifth) of July by Putting Frederick Douglass in Your Syllabus by Alec Ewald. (What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?: An Address Delivered in Rochester, New York, on 5 July 1852, “The Constitution of the United States: Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-slavery?”)
Privacy as
Property? by Daniel Solove. Because property rights are
alienable, companies will readily make people transfer their data to
them, and then the companies will have even more power over people’s
data.
(icymi: A
Dialogue on Freedom on Existential Comics.)