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BIG FINISH: River Song returns in ‘Friend of the Family’

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Thu, 12/01/2023 - 21:30

Professor River Song gets caught in the emotional complexities of one family’s legacy in a brand-new full-cast audio box set, ‘Friend of the Family‘, released today from Big Finish Productions. River Song (Alex Kingston) travels between eras – ranging from 1936 to 2014 – while trapped in a house full of mysteries and heartbreak in […]

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$3.4 Million Grant for Project on Humility in Inquiry

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Thu, 12/01/2023 - 21:00
Philosopher Nathan Ballantyne (Arizona State University) and psychologist Norbert Schwarz (University of Southern California) have won a $3.4 million grant for their project, “Humility in Inquiry”. “The project focuses on humility in inquiry—the practices and processes that encourage humble, open-minded thinking,” says Professor Ballantyne. “The project’s aim is to support intensive collaborations between philosophers and scientists, and ultimately to establish a new paradigm of interdisciplinary research.” The grant supporting the research was awarded by the John Templeton Foundation. Professors Ballantyne and Schwarz will in turn be distributing subawards totaling $1.3 million. These will support research by multidisciplinary teams with members drawn from philosophy, psychological science, and related fields to address one or more of the themes of “Applying Epistemic Ideals, Science and Organizations, and Mindsets and Metacognitive Perspectives”.

Community Input Survey 2023 : Help us create the Drupal Open Web manifesto

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Thu, 12/01/2023 - 20:32

Happy 2023, Drupal community! We have many exciting things in the works for the new year. We’re kicking off 2023 by developing an Open Web Manifesto, and we need your input. We are currently working to build our 3-year strategic plan, starting with this manifesto – and the Drupal community’s input is vital.

Share your input

The Drupal Association believes that Drupal is a digital public good and a leader in Open Web principles. An open web is:

  • an engine of economic empowerment
  • a promoter of free expression
  • a space for digital inclusion

We want your thoughts on what the “open web” means and how you think Drupal should promote these ideas in the future.

Burning Shame

https://www.monbiot.com/2023/01/12/burning-shame/
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Thu, 12/01/2023 - 20:07
Woodburning stoves are a beguiling but disastrous mistake. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th December 2022 It’s shame that has stopped me writing about it before. The shame of failing to think for myself and see the bigger picture, which is more or less my job description. Instead, I followed the crowd. In […]

What does the rise in the inflation mean for financial stability?

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Thu, 12/01/2023 - 20:00
Kristina Bluwstein, Sudipto Karmakar and David Aikman Introduction Inflation reached almost 9% in July 2022, its highest reading since the early 1990s. A large proportion of the working age population will never have experienced such price increases, or the prospect of higher interest rates to bring inflation back under control. In recent years, many commentators … Continue reading What does the rise in the inflation mean for financial stability? →

Views Around the Table on the Online Safety Bill

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Thu, 12/01/2023 - 19:47
On 27 September 2022, Open Rights Group (ORG) held a roundtable with civil society – from women’s rights advocacy groups to organisations representing over-surveilled communities – to discuss some of the most concerning aspects of the Online Safety Bill, currently at the report stage in the House of Commons. Two particular issues were raised during the […]

Coin alternative

http://mikenormaneconomics.blogspot.com/2023/01/coin-alternative.html
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Thu, 12/01/2023 - 12:26


Yglesias out with another idea today:




I guess: With policy rate at 5%;  they sell a 1 year 10 face value with a coupon of 95 then people would pay 100 and get redeemed for 10... they would make the 5%... iow they would pay 100, get coupon for 95 then get back 10 at redemption in 1 year...  pay 100 and get back 105 within a year...

USD savers would have their USD savings in the Treasury General Account at the Fed instead of in Treasury Securities accounts at the Fed…  TGA account would probably maintain a VERY high balance…




The Alchemist: RIP Jeff Beck

https://digbysblog.net/2023/01/11/the-alchemist-rip-jeff-beck/
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Thu, 12/01/2023 - 11:45
Goddam it all, anyway. This one hurts. The music world has lost one of its greatest vocalists. That is not a typo. Jeff Beck could make a guitar speak, in every sense of the word. He rarely stepped up to the mic during the course of his 60+ year career, but whenever he set his fingers to a fret board, he told you a story; sometimes joyous and life-affirming, sometimes sad and melancholy…but it never meandered into masturbatory self-indulgence. Every note held import, serving a distinct narrative that had a beginning, a middle, and an end. Like all great artists, he was loathe to dawdle too long in a comfort zone; he never stopped exploring, pushing the boundaries of his instrument ever-further with each performance (whether on stage or in the studio). While he was generally relegated to the “rock” section, he could slide effortlessly from blues, boogie, and metal to funk, R & B, soul, jazz and fusion (more often than not, all within the same number).

What's new on Drupal.org - Q4 2022

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Thu, 12/01/2023 - 11:21

Read our roadmap to understand how this work falls into priorities set by the Drupal Association with direction and collaboration from the Board and community. You can also review the Drupal project roadmap.

Drupal WordmarkDrupal 10 is here!

Thanks to collaboration from more than 2,000 contributors and over 600 organizations across the world, Drupal 10 was released on December 15. 

The latest version of Drupal has upgrades to both the front-end and back-end design, with the Olivero front-end theme and the Olivero admin theme now default. The WYSIWYG editor has been updated to CKEditor 5, with significant improvements to in-place editing controls and great pluggability.