Where’d you get that frog?
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The president and his son are seeking a betting app fortune as his administration goes to war for prediction markets.
Cooling my heels at the drugstore.
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W. Grey Walter’s early automatons sparked an ongoing fascination with artificial animals
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As states moved to cap sky-high interest rates, Republican lawmakers awash in finance industry campaign cash are spearheading legislation to outlaw those protections nationwide
New research into umbilical cord blood shows a startling number of PFAS
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So we have an ongoing genocide in Gaza. The death toll, as estimated by scientists, is probably north of half a million. (The official toll is laughable and obviously wrong, growth slowing over time.) Trump was able to use oil piracy and a kidnapping to bend Venezuela to his will. Now he’s cut off oil […]
The 1996 Doctor Who TV movie starring Paul McGann is getting a new 4K Blu-Ray release, remastered from the 35mm camera negative with extras.
Virginia Giuffre alleged she was raped by Andrew when she was 17. Key emails in the Epstein files - first revealed by Byline Times - add weight to these claims
The lawman, Emmett Bransky, stands with his back to the outlaw “Coyote” Roscoe Higgins in the middle of Main Street mere minutes before high noon. Emmett gently adjusts his modest 6-Gallon hat. His 36-Pint vest is buttoned up to the collar, and his 4-Teaspoon belt buckle sparkles in the near-midday sun. Roscoe snarls beneath his standard 10-Gallon cowboy hat. His 50-Pint overcoat flaps in the wind, revealing an 8-Liter wool shirt with a 1-Big-Soup-Ladle chest pocket.
The two men take their paces. Their 5-Pint boots dig into the dry, Arizona dirt road. Onlookers line Main Street wearing hats ranging from 4 to an absurd 12 gallons. “Shotgun” Dakota Devlin is clearly compensating for something with that hat.
Della Hayes, Roscoe Higgins’ rumored lover, watches from the spacious 60-Laundry-Basket balcony of Sid William’s Saloon. She’s in a pair of striking 21-Half-Pint riding pants and a 240-Fluid-Ounce sky-blue blouse.
On the opposite side of the street, Maggie Bransky, wife of Emmett, looks stunning in her 11-Quart walking skirt and her pair of 4-Dollop black lace gloves, which carry a 3-Milk-Carton parasol.
New research shows transcranial stimulation can boost altruistic behavior
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Agent-based banking models impose hard capital constraints and lack market-priced equity issuance, overstating credit rationing relative to empirical evidence on proactive seasoned equity offerings.
Amid growing cultural panic about the use of AI in writing, we’re missing the most important point: AI cannot write
- by Aeon Video
To make the world more beautiful, Emma embraces the joy and vulnerability of dancing with abandon – on a subway platform
- A film by Kelly O’Brien and Emma O’Brien
In post-Soviet Azerbaijan, religion was a hot new commodity. I bought into it, too
- by Ilkin Huseynli
Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem, and the answer isn’t getting rid of our screen time
- by Carlo Iacono
As the eighth in line of succession to the British throne is arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, Hardeep Matharu explores how elite impunity is built on creating a sense of powerlessness in the many – in her editorial first published in the latest monthly print edition of Byline Times
I am late today because I am writing this in London after travelling the last 24 hours. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the latest labour force data today (February 19, 2026) – Labour Force, Australia – for January 2026 – which showed that the labour market was essentially steady in that employment kept…
If you’ve been following the rapid rise of AI‑driven chatbots and ‘assistant‑as‑a‑service’ platforms, you know one of the biggest pain points is trustworthy, privacy‑preserving web search. AI assistants need access to current information to be useful, yet traditional search engines track every query, building detailed user profiles.
Enter SearXNG - an open‑source metasearch engine that aggregates results from dozens of public search back‑ends while never storing personal data. The new Drupal module lets any Drupal‑based AI assistant (ChatGPT, LLM‑powered bots, custom agents) invoke SearXNG directly from the Drupal site, bringing privacy‑first searching in‑process with your content.
Matthieu Chavaz, David Elliott and Win Monroe Large-scale provision of long-term funding to banks has become a central bank tool to support credit supply during downturns. However, scholars have worried that allowing banks to rely on public funding could create moral hazard and crowd out private funding. In a recent paper, we address these concerns … Continue reading A public-private partnership: central banks as a funding backstop
Trump’s Department of Homeland Security is weaponizing a little-known legal tool to crack down on free speech — and Big Tech is complying.
Scientists in Berlin performed a battery of tests on a 3,400-year-old weapon
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~by Sean Paul Kelley I don’t know if we’re going to bomb Iran or not. I hope we don’t but hope is not a policy. All I’m left with is my personal experience in Iran and how I go about analyzing foreign affairs. As many of you know, I’m a realist. Once upon a time, […]
In an era of rising authoritarianism and billionaire autocrats, defenders of human rights cannot afford to retreat.
Att låna till försvaret är enligt finanspolitiska rådet inte att rekommendera. I Finanspolitiska rådets årliga rapport som presenterades häromdagen föreslås istället att de kraftfulla aviserade försvarssatsningarna på uppemot 300 miljarder kronor finansieras via höjda skatter eller omprioriteringar i statsbudgeten. Hade man föreslagit att skattefinansieringen skulle ske genom kraftigt höjd progression i inkomstskatterna, kapitalskatter eller särskilda […]