Good Morning. About 4 in 10 Americans stopped buying produce over a parasite outbreak. Only 13% trust the FDA to fix it. Plus, your ceiling for mastery, a home Mold test, Nato spies, and remember Sam Neill (forwarded this email? Join 523k readers).

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A cyclospora outbreak has 40% of Americans buying or eating less produce, according to polling conducted July 22 through 24. A slim majority, 56%, report no change. Only 4% are eating more.

Confidence in the FDA is split. Just 13% say they have a lot, 40% say some, and 47% say not much or none. Women and older adults are the most likely to have changed habits (charts).

The outbreak keeps growing. More than 4,100 cases are confirmed across 41 states, with 308 hospitalizations and thousands more infections unconfirmed. Taylor Farms has temporarily shut the central Mexico plant under investigation. Taylor Farms temporarily shuts down Mexican facility.

A Canadian intern at NATO's top military headquarters in Belgium was arrested Friday on spying charges. Prosecutors say she is suspected of spying for an unnamed third country and belonging to a criminal organization.

The facility is Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in Mons, which plans and runs operations for all 32 member nations. Its own security service flagged her to Belgian intelligence. Investigators searched her home and workplace.

NATO says operational readiness, command and control, and ongoing tasks were unaffected. Neither the third country nor the criminal organization has been identified. She has not been named, and the investigation continues.

AI companies are buying used physical books in bulk, cutting off the bindings, scanning the pages, and destroying what is left. One small bookseller's orders jumped from 20 books a week to hundreds starting in April.

The workaround is legal. First-sale doctrine lets buyers do what they want with a purchase, and a judge ruled that converting print to digital counts as transformative fair use. Anthropic separately paid authors $1.5 billion over pirated copies.

Book databases now broker anonymous orders of 1,000 to one million titles at a time. Rare and out-of-print volumes are getting pulped, meaning some of the last surviving copies of certain books may quietly disappear (old books are free of AI slop).

(Understanding which of the 4 Thinkers you are)

Economists beeped 258 people eight times a day for two weeks, collecting 23,000 thoughts. What people were thinking predicted their happiness better than anything else measured. Four patterns emerged:

That last group scored highest on both income and happiness. They did not think about work less. They protected the play.

One caveat: this is a preprint, not yet peer reviewed, and the groups are loose. People move between them. Still worth a self-check. Where did your last ten thoughts go?

“Your tolerance for boredom is your ceiling for mastery.”

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