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Lawmakers spent years rejecting Kerr County’s demands for a disaster warning system.
I doubt any of you will recall, but in 2003 I wrote a long post over at a different place, that NATO was dead. It was useless, much like the Concert of Europe that emerged after the 1848 Revolutions in Europe recast and sought to revise the settlement of 1815, set up by Castlereagh-Metternich and Talleyrand.
So, today it’s official: the US-UK Special Relationship is dead. It’s been moribund for a long time, since after the Iraqi invasion there was a huge groundswell of UK citizens that resented their country being the American poodle. Lip service was paid, but now, no longer. That the Brits have to turned to the French says a lot.
I doubt any of you will recall, but in 2003 I wrote a long post over at a different place, that NATO was dead. It was useless, much like the Concert of Europe that emerged after the 1848 Revolutions in Europe recast and sought to revise the settlement of 1815, set up by Castlereagh-Metternich and […]
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During an interview, Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa shut down rumors that he's returning as the Doctor or that he knows who the next Doctor is.
My doctor sends me to Brooklyn for an abdominal aortic aneurysm screening. As instructed, I fast for six hours beforehand. I don’t even brush my teeth, for fear of swallowing toothpaste and screwing up the test. I wear a Covid-era face mask to avoid breathing on anyone. The journey takes me to Boro Park, a […]
The post The eye of God appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.
“We watch not because of the animals’ beauty alone, or because of what we learn from watching, but because the webcam—like a memento mori—trains our attention on the now.”
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DISCUSSED:
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Front Royal, Virginia; Cheetah Cub Cam; Netscape; World Wide Web; Mangolinkcam.com; Memento Mori; Banquet Ghosts; Stoics; Karl von Frisch; Tschocki the Parrot; Unselfing; Comparative Thanatology; Jackie and Shadow; Waggle Dances; Existential Dread; the Duality of Life and Death; Telepresence; Impressions of Proximity; Mirror Neurons; Murdoch’s Kestrel; Spelunker’s Frozen Custard & Cavern Burgers
“After two incredible years, I’ve decided to step down as CEO of 𝕏.” — Linda Yaccarino, in a X post announcing her resignation from the social media platform.
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When I was first offered the chance to take over Murder House—back when it was still called Bellwether Manor—the property already had a reputation: historic, haunted, a little misunderstood. But where others saw rot, I saw potential. Yes, strange cries could be heard from outside when the stained-glass windows flew open on windless nights, but that was probably just the madwoman in the attic. The house had good bones, mostly human. Its problems were nothing an exorcism or three couldn’t fix. I believed I could spearhead a revival of this high-profile haunt.
My hopes these days spring not from Europe nor from the United States. Let me be frank on this. I take my hat off to the young people particularly, but not only young people, to Jewish comrades who went out on the street to demonstrate for Palestine, who were beaten up by police, who were […]
The post On the sad disconnection between our (Western) campaign to free Palestine from our campaigns to liberate the… West – video appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.
There’s a great anecdote about Roman Jakobson, the structuralist theorist of language, in Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan’s book, Code: From Information Theory to French Theory. For Jakobson, and for other early structuralist and post-structuralist thinkers, language, cybernetic theories of information, and economists’ efforts to understand how the economy worked all went together : By aligning the refined […]
The Trump administration has made efforts to "erase" transgender people, who face violence and medical neglect behind bars.
The post Trans People Have Disappeared From ICE Records, Against Congressional Orders appeared first on The Intercept.
Swapping office work for the herding life, Adham finds a sublime freedom in the rugged terrain of the Pyrenees
- Directed by Jake Joynson
- by Matthew Sims
Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., on how Trump’s megabill is the biggest wealth transfer in history and how money in politics is fueling America's slide into plutocratic authoritarianism.
The post The Great American Heist You’re Paying For appeared first on The Intercept.
The metamorphosis of this special bond from feudal to modern times reveals much about the aspirations of different societies
- by Bénedicte Sère
They were bred to entertain in a now-shuttered marine park. Now they need to be rescued.
The post Is the Show Finally Over for These Whales and Dolphins? appeared first on Nautilus.
Up to 100 tiny orphan galaxies may lurk in the shadows of our own Milky Way
The post Behold These Hidden Galaxies appeared first on Nautilus.
The whole entertainment industry now seems too top-down and corporate to allow for many great breakthroughs, writes Tim Walker
There has been a lot of back and forth about men and women being tested equally for front line combat roles.
First, let me make it very clear, I am one hundred percent for equality between men and women. I’ve worked under women bosses, had no issue with it. While at Morgan Stanley I had a woman business partner for a year and a half. It was a very sucessful relationship, we’re still friends.
I’ve learned a lot from the women in my life, begining with my mother; the vast majority of which has added significant value to my life. And although I can’t say much nice about my two ex-wives: I learned hard lessons from each of them as well.
There has been a lot of back and forth about men and women being tested equally for front line combat roles. First, let me make it very clear, I am one hundred percent for equality between men and women. I’ve worked under women bosses, had no issue with it. While at Morgan Stanley I had […]
Around 200,000 people will line the streets of Durham tomorrow to celebrate the mining and trade union heritage of the North East of England and the world. Notwithstanding pauses for the outbreak of war, strike action, and the Covid pandemic, the Durham Miner’s Gala — or ‘Big Meeting’ as it is known locally — has […]