Amid PBS funding cuts, right-wing agitprop Prager University aims for the head of the class.
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"Australian National University's recent announcement to slash three full time positions at the Australian Dictionary of Biography and “disestablish” the Australian National Dictionary ... represent cultural vandalism on a breathtaking scale.'
We stand before the world with a dire warning. Unless we, as a united front, address this generational crisis, we risk permanently exhausting one of our greatest resources. Our findings are shocking and sobering, but hopefully, this will inspire world governments to make substantive changes. For if we continue at this current rate, our scientists fear that we will hit Peak Walton Goggins within the next year and a half, if not sooner.
Goggins is a gem—a true icon. No one argues with that empirical data. But these levels of Goggins consumption are unsustainable. Our models predict that the global community will grow tired of this beautiful man if he continues to appear in every TV series, ad campaign, and suggested Instagram reel. We will have burned through his charm far too quickly, and the next generation will inherit a world without his darkly comedic, sweaty sex appeal.
A reporter gets handed a potato chip bag stuffed with payola.
. Oxygène is arguably the prototype for what we now call ambient or chillout music. I remember visiting London with a student friend of mine back in 1977, and it was absolutely everywhere in the city. I thought it was great then. I still do.
Investigators traced the remittances an immigrant was sending from Hawaii to Mexico to figure out his location.
The post ICE Hunts Down Immigrants by Spying on Their Wire Transfers appeared first on The Intercept.
The watchdog also refused to investigate a complaint about a presenter's use of an anti-trans slur, saying the comments were "in line with audience expectations for this channel"
During the Edinburgh TV Festival, the BBC made it clear that Doctor Who isn't going anywhere and will live on "with or without Disney."
Chris Hedges on Israel’s destruction of Gaza City, where bombs, famine, and bulldozers are erasing Palestinians and centuries of cultural heritage. The West remains complicit.
The post Chris Hedges: Israel’s Assassination of Memory appeared first on MintPress News.
Dear parents,
Get ready to drop a leg on summer, because it’s back-to-school season. And thanks to the secretary of education—and former WWE CEO—Linda McMahon, there are gonna be some big changes to the curriculum, including yours truly running the show. McMahon and the big-dog-in-chief already tried to withhold over $6 billion in federal grants for schools, but that’s just the start of this exciting new chapter. So buckle up, because you better believe we’ll be choke-slamming radical rhetoric and squashing the competition.
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Off the bat, we’re banning some books. Alice Walker? In your dreams. The Kite Runner? Not on my watch. And as for that no good, piece of trash J. D. Salinger, I’ll tell him what I told Jake “The Snake” Roberts back in ’94: “Forget the rye, you’re about to catch these fists!” Call me a phony one more time, and you’ll be riding a carousel of pain if you know what’s good for you.
The recent wave of anti-migrant protests are providing a bridge between right-wing elected politicians and extremist groups
Imagine you are a Bayesian turkey. You hold a nonzero prior belief in the hypothesis (H): People are nice vegetarians who would never eat a turkey. Every day I see the sun rise is further confirmation of this fact. Each day you survive and are not eaten constitutes new evidence (e). You dutifully update your […]
Today, we are delighted to announce the addition of ten new Drupal AI supporting organisations, known as “Makers”. Now we have a total of $175,000 in funding, significantly strengthening the capacity to build on Drupal’s position as the best open-source AI-powered CMS.
Dominic De Cooman announces the new makers (opens in new window)
It’s publication day for the new edition of my first poetry collection, You Took the Last Bus Home. It’s been unavailable for nine months, following the demise of its original publisher, Unbound. I’m so delighted that Picador stepped into the breach to bring out this shiny new edition. Hopefully it will now be back on…
Scenes from Aboriginal Australian pottery, brought to animated life, capture the turn of the seasons in central Australia
- by Aeon Video
We must escape the psychological trap where grave warnings about existential threats trigger ever more destructive behaviour
- by M I Krueger
Data has created a new and paradoxical social order: the promise of emancipation is made possible by classifying everything
- by Marion Fourcade & Kieran Healy
It’s good that we’re taking sleep more seriously than we used to, but the messaging about its importance has gone too far
- by Alice Gregory
The Russian foreign ministry added multiple Byline Times and Byline TV contributors to its "stop list" following our award-winning investigations into the Putin regime
Nobody needs to be told that Keir Starmer’s father was a ‘toolmaker’. At a conservative count, he’s brought it up around 40 times in speeches, party political broadcasts and softball interviews. Nor do they need to be told that he enjoys watching Arsenal and playing football. These biographical claims have become so familiar that they […]
Even if collective rights were compatible with the individualistic design of modern legal orders based on subjective rights, it would not make any sense to employ them for cultural survival projects enforced by state power. There cannot be a “preservation” of cultures in the same sense as most of us advocate the preservation of animals […]
Mohammed Gharbawi Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have fuelled a lively debate on the feasibility and proximity of artificial general intelligence (AGI). While some experts dismiss the concept of AGI as highly speculative, viewing it primarily through the lens of science fiction (Hanna and Bender (2025)), others assert that its development is not merely … Continue reading The gathering swarm: emergent AGI and the rise of distributed intelligence
A perfect storm is coming for Obamacare in 2026.
We knew in the 1980s, when neoliberal-influenced governments started selling off public trading enterprise for not much that the strategy would not deliver on its promises. At least some of us knew and wrote about it then. I was part of a team that analysed the disasters that would follow the sell off of the…
Over at Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall has been making the case that the states are critical sites of resistance to Trump’s lawless power grabs on the road to authoritarianism. He was challenged today by a reader who asked him what, specifically, the Blue states can do. Marshall tossed out some ideas: Secure the vote, […]