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Fri, 14/11/2025 - 20:00

When the SNP first took the reins of power in Holyrood, Alex Salmond and his Cabinet promised to heed the words of Alasdair Gray inscribed on the Scottish Parliament’s Canongate Wall. ‘Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation,’ wrote the Glaswegian author, paraphrasing the Canadian poet Dennis Lee.  Earlier […]

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Fri, 14/11/2025 - 05:00

It’s been so long, you sometimes forget that eventually, IT will HAPPEN.

It’s impossible to say when IT will HAPPEN. But it can’t be too long until IT HAPPENS. Looking at the data (age, high-stress job, cardiac history), it is statistically plausible that IT will HAPPEN in the next thirty-six months.

Eighteen, if you factor in hamburger consumption and all the weird bruising.

Of course, it doesn’t feel right to want IT to HAPPEN. And it’s obviously not okay to try to make IT HAPPEN. That’s not what this is ABOUT, just to make things CLEAR LEGALLY as far as VARIOUS AGENCIES are concerned.

But regardless, IT is going to HAPPEN. So you’re allowed to think about IT.

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Fri, 14/11/2025 - 02:13
Joel Suss: What is puzzling is the idea that inequality is rising and leading to discontent, but this discontent is being channelled into what you would call the nationalist parties like Trump, Farage, [Marine] Le Pen, et cetera, and not the parties which are typically and historically associated with addressing inequality [through redistribution and the […]
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Fri, 14/11/2025 - 02:00

Drupal AI Summit

On 9 December 2025, leaders from across the globe will meet in Paris for the Drupal AI Summit, hosted within the Future of Software Technologies (FOST) conference, the world’s largest federated technology event.

The summit brings together engineers, architects, product leaders, and marketers who are putting AI to use in real systems. It explores what happens when AI meets the open-source values that built Drupal: transparency, community, and long-term thinking.

Within FOST, the Drupal AI track will host twelve focused sessions led by leaders in Drupal AI. These sessions will share lessons from real projects and outline the steps toward making Drupal the most AI-enabled open-source CMS. 

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Fri, 14/11/2025 - 01:00
Arno Hantzsche and Harriet Jeanes Houses account for the largest share of total assets held by the UK household sector. Households’ spending and saving decisions depend in part on the price of these assets. What causes house prices to move can therefore have important consequences for macroeconomic policy and financial stability. Our house price model … Continue reading The keys to house price growth
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Fri, 14/11/2025 - 01:00

The time? High summer. The place? Binghamton, New York. My husband and I were there for a two-week stint, and though we weren’t native to the place, we were growing restless. Our Airbnb seemed haunted, with its framed photos of people that looked like ghosts and a decorating motif that could best be described as violently Christian. And we—a Jew, a Buddhist, and a corgi who answered to neither man nor God—longed to escape. But where?

Time and again, our answer to this question was Wegman’s.

The First Grocery Run for an out-of-towner is always overwhelming; there are basics to acquire, meals to plan, and (in our case) mustard packets to swipe from the sit-down café area to hoard for midweek sandwich-making emergencies. Amid this chaos, I espied a logic-defying new popcorn strain from a familiar brand. But the First Grocery Run is no time to get fancy. Watermelon hibiscus-flavored anything cannot be indulged in when one is in survival mode.

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Fri, 14/11/2025 - 00:01

Senators, please get OUT of my uterus so my friend Brynn, who is almost finished with nursing school, can get in there STAT. My body doesn’t need to produce a child just because it can. Focus on other ways to ruin the country, and let Brynn and the internet give me Life of a Showgirl takes while deciding if I inhaled enough Drano to warrant an urgent-care run.

Can you jerks do all that? No. So leave me, the internet, and Brynn to our work.

I am a grown woman, and I reserve the right to feel anything, google it for several hours, send Brynn a text that says “lol help,” and receive the gold standard of compassionate medical advice. Brynn just took a final on this sort of patient care. Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe has never taken a final because he did not go to college.

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Thu, 13/11/2025 - 22:30

On October 16th, Lewisham’s Labour-led council granted planning permission to begin the redevelopment of Lewisham Shopping Centre, marking a decisive shift for the borough’s future. Lewisham has been undergoing gentrification since the turn of the millennium. Slowly but surely, warehouses and housing estates around Deptford, New Cross, Brockley, and Lewisham Central have been closed, demolished […]