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Thu, 04/12/2025 - 07:55

Hey nonprofit Drupal users, do you want a free ticket to DrupalCon Chicago? Submit to be a breakout discussion leader at the Nonprofit Summit!  

What are you talking about?

The DA is interested in supporting community-driven content that is specifically relevant to nonprofit organization staff and related agencies at DrupalCon North America in Chicago, Illinois, at the Nonprofit Summit on March 23, 2026. 

We are looking for volunteers who would be interested in giving back to the community by contributing some subject matter expertise via a day of informal breakout sessions or other group activities. We are open to ideas!

Who are we looking for?

Do you have some Drupal expertise or a recent experience with a Drupal project that you would like to share with others? Is there something about Drupal that you think is really cool that you would love to share with the nonprofit Drupal community?

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Thu, 04/12/2025 - 05:15

“[Secretary of War] Hegseth ordered a lethal attack but not the killing of survivors, officials say… Amid talk of war crimes, the details and precise sequence of a Sept. 2 attack on a boat in the Caribbean are facing intensifying scrutiny.”New York Times

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Can we all calm down for a minute? It appears my command to take no prisoners, exterminate all traces of life, and torch any semblance of international law has been misinterpreted. You shouldn’t rush to conclusions until you have all the facts.

Just because I said “Blow up the boat and everyone on it” doesn’t mean I literally wanted to do those things. Ever heard of a rhetorical device? The media can’t handle nuance or irony.

You have to understand, the Joint Chiefs of Staff are a lighthearted bunch. We joke around. We do bits. The Situation Room is DC’s Comedy Cellar. Everyone is cracking wise. So when you hear that I ordered an unprovoked attack based on dubious intelligence, you shouldn’t take anything out of context.

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Thu, 04/12/2025 - 00:00

Thank you for your interest in our funding opportunity. Please review our following updated guidelines before submitting your application.

Artist must be citizen of the US or its surrounding territories.

Artist must not be enrolled in a degree-granting institution at time of application.

Artist must have no more than two published full-length works prior to application, and no more than five real-life friends.

Artist must currently be suffering from spiraling intrusive thoughts.

Artist must have wept spontaneously and uncontrollably in the last twenty-four hours. (But not necessarily for the last twenty-four hours.)

Artist must have lived with their parents for an extended period as an adult. (Special consideration will be given to artists who have moved back home twice and are over the age of thirty.)

Artist must question the fabric of reality regularly, interjecting phrases like “Can you believe this?” or “What the hell is going on??” or “Not today, Satan.”

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Wed, 03/12/2025 - 23:57

In the final pages of 168 Songs of Hatred and Failure: A History of Manic Street Preachers, author Keith Cameron reveals that the Manic Street Preachers’ most recent album, 2025’s Critical Thinking, provisionally had another title: Dialectics. Eventually deemed too pretentious by the band — although Critical Thinking takes some beating in this regard — […]

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Wed, 03/12/2025 - 22:55
Ed Leamer transformed economists’ understanding of empirical evidence with his landmark 1988 paper, Let’s Take the Con Out of Econometrics. In it, he challenged the profession’s fixation on ‘statistical significance’, describing much empirical research as “measuring with a rubber ruler.” Leamer’s central claim was that complex econometric models depend heavily on hidden, subjective decisions made […]
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Wed, 03/12/2025 - 15:09
The Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest – Australian National Accounts: National Income, Expenditure and Product, September 2025 – today (December 3, 2025), which shows that the Australian economy slowed to 0.4 per cent (from 0.6 per cent) in the September-quarter 2025. At the current annual growth rate, unemployment is predicted to rise further,…