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Wed, 17/09/2025 - 07:03
The stability problem in Sraffian economics is the question: will an excess rate of profit in an industry automatically result in a self-correcting adjustment, driving the excess rate of profit in that industry down to the uniform rate in the economy? No, not necessarily, argues Ian Steedman (1984), a writer deeply sympathetic to the Sraffian […]
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Wed, 17/09/2025 - 03:21

 AI at BADCamp 2025. Hands-on, community-driven, and happening now. Three-hour AI Summit and practical sessions for builders, developers, and strategists. badcamp.org

BADCamp has always been a community-first event where ideas, experimentation, and practical knowledge-sharing thrive. This year, it’s also where Drupal’s AI conversation gets very real.

From a focused, three-hour AI Summit to a range of practical sessions across the camp, AI is showing up in force at BADCamp 2025. Whether you're a site builder, developer, themer, or content strategist, there's something here for you.

The AI Summit: Community and Possibility

Friday morning, October 25, BADCamp is hosting a special three-hour AI Summit. This unconference-style session will give the Drupal community a space to explore how we’re using AI in the real world and where we want to take it next.

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Wed, 17/09/2025 - 03:00

If a Democratic lawmaker and her husband are gunned down, it’s an isolated incident carried out by a lone wolf.

If a right-wing activist is gunned down, it’s part of a coordinated effort by the radical left to incite violence.

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If a gunman murders nineteen children at an elementary school, it’s disgusting to politicize the tragedy by talking about gun control.

If a Republican presidential candidate is targeted in an assassination attempt, it’s fair to blame it on left-wing rhetoric before the shooter has even been identified.

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Wed, 17/09/2025 - 02:38
A trolley problem, some personal stuff, a bit of Islamic jurisprudence, and then the Honda.  1)  Trolley time.  Let’s start with the trolley problem.  People proposing trolley problems often do them in two parts.  First, there’s the anodyne one with the easy answer: A trolley is rushing down the tracks towards a group of five […]
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Tue, 16/09/2025 - 23:00

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In 1977, a New Jersey junior high school teacher who spends her weekends at Studio 54 discovers two musicians who become among the most influential artists of the 1980s. Decades later, having burned bridges with them both, she tells her story in hopes of securing her rightful place in rock ’n’ roll history. Written as an email to former Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, frequent Tendency contributor Lisa Borders’s Last Night at the Disco has been praised as “hilarious” by Publishers Weekly, adding, “Readers will be hooked by this tragicomic romp.” Today, we’re thrilled to share an excerpt from the book.

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Tue, 16/09/2025 - 22:18

Every Saturday for the past seven weeks, a crowd of far-right protestors has gathered in a square in the city centre of Newcastle, outside a hotel housing asylum seekers. They arrive around noon, sometimes earlier, and usually stay till late in the afternoon. The protests, like anywhere, are a mixture of the threatening and the […]

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Tue, 16/09/2025 - 22:01

So, I’m the same age as Noel and Liam. And they’ll make $50 million each by the end of the tour. Goddammit, I don’t have enough saved. Nowhere near enough saved.

I like this song, but can you imagine if you really did live forever? They’d be fine. I wouldn’t. I’d have to figure something out. I’d have to reel in my spending.

The thing about their dream is it’s not vague. It’s well defined. They spent their twenties saying, “Let’s be the biggest band in the world.” They weren’t saying, “Maybe I could be a writer? Some kind of comedy writer? What if I live on a boat with just my guitar and I could write? No, that’s weird. But the rent would be cheap, I bet. I could work less and write more, maybe?”

So the verses and the chorus are all G major, then you do that little move to B minor, then the thing where you go to G, A, D, and it just keeps circling. Like, how many times have either Jeff or I played that absentmindedly on a guitar, back in our twenties, while talking late at night? We weren’t focused! Lazy? Lazy!