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Wed, 06/05/2026 - 23:20
There’s a clinical diagnosis called body dysmorphia, where people think there’s something wrong with their body when it’s fine. Colloquially, some people refer to “reverse body dysmorphia” where someone thinks their body is better than it is. In late middle aged men this often exhibits itself as thinking that they’re stronger, tougher and better in […]
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Wed, 06/05/2026 - 17:00
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May 6th, 2026: I may have spoken too soon re: it feeling like spring, since my weather just told me "cooling over the next few days." Why? WHY

– Ryan

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Wed, 06/05/2026 - 06:38
Today’s headline news chronicles our triumphant, record-breaking petroleum exports: 6.4 million barrels a day. The highest weekly figure ever recorded. On the surface, it appears America may just make up in exports what the closure of the Straits of Hormuz prevents. On the surface. The reality of our domestic petroleum situation is more dire. The […]
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Wed, 06/05/2026 - 03:00

“More than 1 in 4 [students at University of Maine at Presque Isle’s online MyPace program] finished their entire degree course load in a single eight-week session, half the length of a traditional academic semester.” — The Washington Post

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Thanks to the hassle of reading, writing, doing equations, performing lab experiments, speaking to professors and peers, comprehending topics, growing as a person, and, in general, learning, going to college is extremely time-consuming. That’s why our university offers an online degree program, during which you will not need to read, write, do equations, perform experiments, speak to anyone, comprehend topics, grow, or learn.

You could have completed your first semester instead of reading that paragraph.

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Tue, 05/05/2026 - 23:57

Tapped to advise Steve Witkoff on Iran, Nick Stewart previously condemned dealing with any of Iran’s elected leaders. His presence consolidates military conflict as the Trump administration’s only option. The latest addition to the Trump administration’s Iran negotiation team, Nick Stewart, has declared his absolute opposition to negotiating with the Islamic Republic of Iran. According to Stewart, “it’s important that we disabuse people of that notion” that anyone among Iran’s current leadership could serve as an “honest broker.” Stewart aruged […]

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Tue, 05/05/2026 - 23:10

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With warmth, humor, and occasional run-ins with bodily fluids, science journalist (and frequent McSweeney’s contributor) Elizabeth Preston leads a highly accessible tour of cutting-edge research into how and why other animals and humans care for their young. She discovers that we evolved to raise our kids in cooperative groups, and that the tools we’ve inherited for caretaking aren’t only for moms or dads—they’re the basis for our human society.

Today, we’re happy to share an excerpt from The Creatures’ Guide to Caring: How Animal Parents Teach Us That Humans Were Born to Care. It is available to purchase at the fine bookseller of your choice.

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Tue, 05/05/2026 - 22:42

A new form of capital is ascending: cloud capital—networked algorithmic machines that grant their owners remarkable powers to modify our behaviour. And just as financiers needed neoliberalism, today’s tech lords need a new ideology to legitimise their rule. I call it techlordism. Yanis Varoufakis Tue 21 Apr 2026 22.00 AEST Society & Inequality _Photo: AAP […]

The post Palantir and the New Order: Neoliberalism is dead. Say hello to Techlordism – The Point appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.