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A Letter to Indicted New York City Mayor Eric Adams from Joey, King of the Rats

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-letter-to-indicted-new-york-city-mayor-er…

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Fri, 27/09/2024 - 22:00

“Mayor Eric Adams of New York City, a former police captain who ran on a law-and-order platform but whose tenure has been consumed by accusations of corruption, spent years accepting free airline tickets, lavish overseas accommodations and illegal campaign donations from Turkey, federal prosecutors said on Thursday.” — New York Times, 9/26/24

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Dear Soon-to-Be-Former Mayor Adams,

It was with great glee that I heard the charges leveled against you in human court yesterday. Glee, and not a little pride—because finally, the hard work of our community has paid off.

What Would Really Happen if Nuclear Bombs Were Fired – and How Public is Fed ‘One-Sided View’ of Weapon of Mass Destruction

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/09/27/what-would-happen-if-nuclear-bombs-were-fire…

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Fri, 27/09/2024 - 21:45

On Tuesday, three more countries ratified the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. It wasn't widely reported in the media

Access no Areas: How Nigel Farage’s Exclusionary Tactics Come Straight From Trump’s Playbook

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/09/27/nigel-farage-reform-uk-donald-trump-deplatfo…

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Fri, 27/09/2024 - 21:07

'Cherry-picking attendance harms the breadth of diversity reporting on events – we urge a rethink of the policy, ensuring all journalists can attend future party conferences'

Is Harris’ Big Tent About To Burst?

https://www.levernews.com/is-harris-big-tent-about-to-burst/

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Fri, 27/09/2024 - 20:05

Kamala Harris has built a coalition spanning from Dick Cheney to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — but is that setting her up for a rudderless presidency?

Father of none

https://psyche.co/films/no-kidding-inside-one-childless-comedians-choice-to-get…

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Fri, 27/09/2024 - 20:01

A smiling shirtless man with the outline of a child, as if cut out by scissors, sitting on his shoulders.

‘That was five minutes, bro. A little puncture…’ What happens when a childless comedian decides to get a vasectomy at age 35

- by Psyche Film

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Government Urged to ‘Stop Ignoring’ Plight of Single Parents as it Begins Work to Combat UK’s Child Poverty Crisis

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/09/27/single-parents-child-poverty-taskforce/

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Fri, 27/09/2024 - 20:00

An estimated 4.3 million youngsters are growing up in poverty and those living in single-parent families often struggle the most to secure help

Main character syndrome

https://aeon.co/essays/why-main-character-syndrome-is-philosophically-dangerous…

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Fri, 27/09/2024 - 20:00

Photo of a person wearing large sunglasses with outdoor scenery reflected, resting their fingers on their chin in a thoughtful pose.

Why romanticising your own life is philosophically dubious, setting up toxic narratives and an inability to truly love

- by Anna Gotlib

Read at Aeon

DrupalCon Barcelona 2024 brings the open source Drupal community together

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Fri, 27/09/2024 - 20:00

DrupalCon, the main event about the digital experience platform Drupal, was held this year in Barcelona, Spain, from 24-27 September. DrupalCon unites thousands of people from around the globe who use, develop, design, and support the Drupal platform. Over 1,300 digital experts and Drupal professionals gathered to exchange ideas, work on the Drupal project, and propel Drupal innovation.

On 24 September, Founder and Project Lead Dries Buytaert gave an inspiring keynote about developing an exciting new product - Drupal CMS. Dries shared a progress update on the timeline of Drupal CMS, showing a demo of the current state, the event-building and SEO capabilities, and the acceleration of site building through AI tools. This will allow Drupal experts and potential end users to drastically change how they build websites, using prompts to create in minutes what used to take days.

What kind of ‘rigour’ do RCTs provide?

https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2024/09/27/what-kind-of-rigour-do-rcts-provide/

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Fri, 27/09/2024 - 18:39

The bad news is, first, that there is no reason in general to suppose that an ATE [Average Treatment Effect] observed in one population will hold in others. That is what the slogan widespread now in education and elsewhere registers: “Context matters”. The issue in this paper is not though about when we can expect […]

this comic was written while waiting for a plane that boards by zone numbers 1 through 5, yet which had two lines, one for zones 1 and 2 and one for zones 3 through 5, which meant the lines were actually useless

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Fri, 27/09/2024 - 17:00


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