There's a lot going on at the Doctor Who website, including Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT Commander-in-Chief, under attack from the Wire.
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Nigel Farage's £5 million handout from a crypto billionaire is a worrying sign of things to come. We must act now to prevent a complete oligarch takeover, argues Oliver Bullough
“This here banger should grab your attention.”
“This semi-banger should alert your attention before the second track really grabs your attention.”
“Slowwwwwww fade in.”
“Honestly, this is the only track worth listening to, but it’s the pre-digital age, and we just forced you to buy a whole album.”
“This is not the single you heard on the radio. We didn’t like that one as much, so we made it the ninth track, and we think you’ll be pleased to find we’re actually better than just the one radio hit.”
“One of our musicians is warming up.”
“How about a little HORN SECTION / CHOIR SECTION / ROBOT VOICE / ATMOSPHERIC NOISE before we get started?”
“These first five seconds will change history forever.”
“Look at us, adjusting the volume for you. Too loud? Too bad.”
Texas’s response to school shootings was as predictable as it was doomed to produce only more violence in schools — violence by cops.
The post After Uvalde, Texas Stuffed Schools Full of Cops. They Brutalized Students. appeared first on The Intercept.
From Utah to Georgia, communities are demanding data center moratoriums as concerns move from local zoning fights into national politics.
The post The Race to Build AI Data Centers — Before the People Can Protest appeared first on The Intercept.
Faced with the pain of grief, it’s tempting to reach for words of comfort, but Yiyun Li showed me how little they offer
- by Pia Rios
Mozart’s genius lay in writing music of such power that he could draw his audience into morally wrenching predicaments
- by Dorian Bandy
Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs accuse Drax of ‘sleight of hand’ as it sidesteps £460 million government subsidy conditions in order to power AI
After widespread outrage, the University of Sydney has backed down on its threat to discipline two students over a poster for a Palestine protest used on campus.
The post Protest campaign forces Sydney Uni to drop disciplinary threats over Palestine poster first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Rep. Jake Auchincloss urging Democrats to vote against the presumptive Maine Senate nominee exposes the limits of party unity.
The post Graham Platner Is Forcing Centrist Dems to Reckon With “Vote Blue No Matter Who” appeared first on The Intercept.
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KNOPF: This is a very funny, very moving book about the deepest kind of friendship. It unfolds over many decades, and the novel took shape over decades for you, too. When did you begin thinking about these characters?
DAVE EGGERS: I’ve been thinking about Cricket and Olympia for about twenty years, and was writing random passages about them much of that period. Sometimes a certain book takes an especially long time to gestate and make its correct form known, and this was one of those books.
Your life is a mess, an absolute Level 10 disaster. You’ve lost your job, and there might be pending charges after you borrowed your employer’s Hermes silk dress and Prada pumps. You’ve got no place to live after your thirteenth-floor walk-up Hell’s Kitchen sublet has decided you aren’t worth the trouble after you miss rent for the third time. But that’s beside the point. This is the perfect opportunity to change your life. So you book a trip to Tuscany even though you only have $38.62 in your bank account. It’s cool, you’re gonna Klarna it. When else are you gonna have the opportunity to go to Italy and live your best soft-girl life?
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Underground Artists is an ongoing comic by Ali Fitzgerald (Hungover Bear & Friends) that follows woodland creatures as they create art and search out whimsy in a bleak forest.
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New public disclosures reveal a web of right-wing businesses being paid by Israel through Brad Parscale.
The post Ex-Trump Campaign Chief Funneled Millions of Israeli Government Money to His Longtime Allies’ Companies appeared first on The Intercept.
John Lewis The recent near halving of Bitcoin’s price has reignited debate about its true value. As a store of value, net present value asset pricing models suggest it should be worth zero because it pays no dividend. Yet its price remains far above zero, and its total value is still large despite recent turbulence. … Continue reading The quantity theory of crypto: what is Bitcoin worth as a medium of exchange?
Andrew Hewitt Sunday 1 March 2026 was the 80th anniversary of the Bank’s coming into public ownership, following the Bank of England Act 1946. It was the first of eight major nationalisations by the post-war Labour government and the only one not to be later reversed, in whole or in part. Some opponents, at the … Continue reading A balancing act in public ownership: the quiet legacy of the Bank of England Act 1946
If there is a shortage of entry level jobs, why not create some?
Make language learning part of your daily life with five nifty tips aimed at building fluency in real conversations
- Video by BBC Ideas and the Open University
In the early 1970s, genetic engineers launched the most controversial revolution in science since the atomic bomb
- by Aeon Video
Knowledge doesn’t only reside in books and lectures. As Bertrand Russell observed, there’s also ‘knowledge by acquaintance’
- by Matt Duncan
Attacked by the Left and Right, the Enlightenment can only be saved through use of its greatest legacy: permanent critique
- by Eliane Glaser
These success stories are a model for community-rooted conservation and population revival that could help other countries and regions rebuild their withering ecosystems.
The military contractor whose leak displaced 50,000 people makes millions aiding fighter jet production for Lockheed Martin.
The post Company Behind California Chemical Leak Was Building F-35 Parts Amid Rush of Orders From U.S. and Israel appeared first on The Intercept.