New research shows “gifted word learning” pups have surprising verbal aptitude
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After questions from The Intercept, U.S. Southern Command updated its count of civilians killed in boat strikes to 123.
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Power on your PCs, my gentle users, because I just found a fresh Excel file to overcomplicate. Hoo boy, I can’t wait to rework every cell of “Company Staffing.xlsx.”
Most peons at this company think a spreadsheet is just a tool to create a budget. Not me. Not us. You see, there’s one of us in every organization. Though it’s nowhere in our job descriptions, we spend hours crafting Gordian knots of obscure Excel features so that even the simplest files become unrecognizable monstrosities.
Before we do anything with these measly kilobytes, we need to duplicate this file. Several times. Then we add an underscore, “NEW,” and a different numbering convention. The filename should evoke the image of an overbaked Feast of Assumption turducken.
There. We’re ready to open “Company Staffing_NEW_FINAL_003.xlsx.”
Amid reports of false legal citations generated by artificial intelligence, one federal bankruptcy court is putting its foot down.
Far-right Sen. Josh Hawley joined four other Republicans to advance a war powers resolution in a symbolic rebuke to Trump.
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Prayer for Uninteresting Times Send me a slow news day,a quiet, subdued day,in which nothing much happens of note,save for the passing of time,the consumption of wine,and a re-run of Murder, She Wrote. Grant me a no news day,a spare-me-your-views day,in which nothing much happens at all,except a few hours togethersome regional weather,a day we can…
The president says he wants to take on institutional real estate investors, but his track record says otherwise.
“We need to prepare for the possibility that the U.S. uses military coercion against Canada.” — Headline from op-ed in The Globe and Mail.
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Jamming vital infrastructure with Anne of Green Gables souvenirs
Giving birth to future resistance fighters without taking on crippling debt
Using that year-long parental leave to transform dried maple leaves into lethal throwing stars
Locating resistance headquarters in New Brunswick, where invading forces will never think to look
Casually walking past armored vehicles stuck in snowbanks without even offering to push
Conceding Alberta
Establishing an underground network consisting of retired men taking up tables all morning at Tim Hortons
Milk in plastic bags
Smiling politely at invaders but talking shit behind their back
Confounding invaders by using the metric system but also incorporating imperial measures in specific but not especially logical ways
A dazzling visualisation of how the body’s specialised proteins repair damaged DNA by using an intact copy as a template
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How the persecuted Vietnamese philosopher became one of the first theorists of the divide between colonised and coloniser
- by Rory O’Sullivan
We aren’t safe inside separate minds. Being-in-the-world means we’re entangled and vulnerable – and that’s how we flourish
- by Katherine Withy
The 13-year-old girl, who she was given parental responsibility over after being abandoned by her parents, could be sent into state care because of the Home Office's decision
I’ve been asked by a couple of friends, who have signed contracts to write nonfiction trade books, whether I have any advice on how to make sure the book gets written. I think in general non-fiction trade writing is quite a different challenge from academic writing, which I discussed here in 2022, when I was […]
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I grew up in a society where collective will was at the forefront and it is true to say people looked out for each other. The state – at all levels – had various policy structures in place to provide levels of economic protection for the least advantaged members of society. Having grown up in…
“It seems that the government is shutting down all avenues to remain transparent. Why does a government do that when there is nothing to hide?”
A former X exec who worked on Elon Musk’s embattled Grok chatbot got a “highly unusual” carveout to keep his company shares while working as the U.S. Patent Office’s “chief AI officer.”
“It is no surprise to either Marimar or myself that this happened and, unfortunately, it is going to continue to happen,” the Chicago woman’s lawyer said.
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While reporting on climate change isn’t always hopeful, the women I've met along the way are forging a path forward for intergenerational resilience.