Congress is using kids to hold Big Tech accountable. Kids will get hurt in the process. In a few minutes, the Senate Judiciary will start a hearing focused on “Big Tech and the Online Child Exploitation Crisis.” Like most such hearings, this will almost certainly go off the rails in a wide variety of directions that I […]
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With the roll-out of iOS 17.4, Apple iPhone users in the EU will benefit from downloading apps outside of Apple’s official app store. This benefit, which is known as sideloading, will be denied to British customers for now. On the fourth anniversary of our leaving the EU, we ask the question: is this evidence that we […]
Though her family sometimes received food stamps and occasionally had their utilities cut off, Marcie Alvis Walker’s parents led her to believe that they were an average middle-class Black family. They encouraged her to pursue her dreams and told her that if she worked hard enough, she’d achieve them. The small catch was that Walker’s dream was an elusive one for any cash-strapped and undereducated Black woman: being a New York Times-bestselling author. Now, as a published non-bestselling author, she wishes she’d had a backup plan.
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Though no one had said otherwise, my mother felt it necessary to regularly and relentlessly remind me and my siblings that there was more Black representation in the ’90s and early ’00s, when we all came of age, than there was when she did in the ’50s and early ’60s.
Pennsylvania Supremes condemn Dobbs While MAGA went gaga over Democrats’ secret plot “to turn Taylor Swift into an international pop star and the Kansas City Chiefs into a football dynasty so Swift could then date a Kansas City player and leverage the collective media coverage to get Joseph R. Biden, Jr. elected as President,” the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was throwing the Dobbs decision overturning Roe back in the U.S. Supreme Court’s faces. Pennsylvania’s highest court ruled on Monday that a woman’s right to reproductive autonomy is “fundamental” (WHYY): With four separate concurring opinions — three of which also dissented in part from the majority opinion — the 219-page decision in Allegheny Reproductive Health Center v. PA Department of Human Services is complex. However, the key — and unanimous — finding was that patients and abortion providers could challenge the state’s 1982 Abortion Control Act, which prohibits the use of Medicaid to cover funding for abortions.
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“Taylor Swift hasn’t even endorsed President Joe Biden for reelection yet. That hasn’t stopped members of MAGAland’s upper crust from plotting to declare—as one source close to Donald Trump calls it—a ‘holy war’ on the pop mega-star, especially if she ends up publicly backing the Democrats in the 2024 election.”
— Rolling Stone 1/30/24
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Put down your scotch and cigars, and listen up closely. We’ve all seen the numbers. Anyone who voted for our guy the first time is going do it again, we know that much. Our base is loyal through and through. But whether or not the election was stolen—no, shut up, not now, Rudy—is frankly beside the point. If the same number of people vote for him in November, then it’s all for nothing. Again. And it’s not like we can exactly count on the Proud Boys come January 2025—they’re turning on each other quicker than the Kardashians.
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The deep and crucial reason why Trump could win again. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 29th January 2024 Many explanations are proposed for the continued rise of Donald Trump, and the steadfastness of his support, even as the outrages and criminal charges pile up. Some of these explanations are powerful. But there is […]
Mainstream economics nowadays usually assumes that agents that have to make choices under conditions of uncertainty behave according to Bayesian rules, axiomatized by Ramsey (1931) and Savage (1954) — that is, they maximize expected utility for some subjective probability measure that is continually updated according to Bayes theorem. If not, they are supposed to be […]
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A deadly attack by Iraqi militias against a U.S. military base in Jordan sets the stage for a potential new era of U.S. conflicts triggered by its support for the war in Gaza.
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After four months of fragmented but defiant industrial action, Commonwealth public servants have accepted the latest government pay offer of 11.2 per cent over three years, plus a 0.92 per cent sign-on bonus.
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January 31st, 2024: I call this comic "T-Rex in: Frame of GRIND", only not really becaus Today (January 31, 2024), the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest – Consumer Price Index, Australia – for the December-quarter 2023. The data showed that the inflation rate continues to fall sharply – down to 4.1 per cent from 5.2 per cent in line with global supply trends. There is nothing in this quarterly…
I shall live to see the destruction of my enemies. The great joy of watching the American government be humiliated, over and over again, as their empire collapses. To watch as those they oppressed cease to fear them, as their enemies circle the old brute, nipping at their heels, tearing at them, as they dies innumerable wounds. This, God has granted to me. And so too has God granted to me to watch the end of Neoliberalism. “Greed is good” they screamed, as they strip mined the economy, becoming the richest rich in the world’s history, even as they destroyed the basis of their power. Soon they will be the rich of undeveloping countries; the rich of India in 1950. Scream at China as they will, nothing will change that they sold the golden geese to china for cash on the barrelhead and two generations of epehemeral wealth. Neither can agree where the money should be used to help Ukraine, according to new parliamentary report
Adam Serwer with an interesting observation on the Supreme Court’s decision in the Texas border case which Gov. Abbott and 25 other red state extremist Governors are openly defying: There are many factors that led to this point. One is the reigning Republican ideology of Trumpism, which holds that only conservative electoral victories, conservative laws, and conservative governments are legitimate and must be obeyed—the ideology that led a mob to ransack the Capitol to overturn an election. Another is the steady drumbeat of catastrophizing right-wing propaganda about the recent rise in migrants at the border, which seeks to validate extreme responses, including violence and lawlessness. But even accounting for those two elements, the most significant proximate reason for Abbott’s response may be that four Supreme Court justices sent Abbott an implicit message that they agreed with him. When the Court sided with the Biden administration, it was a 5–4 split, with Justices John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett joining the three Democratic appointees.
Despite Biden’s promises of no boots on the ground, documents obtained by The Intercept suggest the military has prepared for the possibility. The post U.S. Military Personnel in Iraq Put on Standby to Support Ground Involvement in Israel’s War on Gaza appeared first on The Intercept. JV Last at the Bulwark points out that everyone needs to take a breath and remember that Nikki Haley is untrustworthy. All you have to do is look back at the way she’s been trying to have it both ways throughout the primary campaign to realize it. I would add that her decision to work for Trump and then sing his praises when she left the administration, promising to campaign for “this one” gesturing to Dear Leader was a low point. Anyway, Last writes: Nick Catoggio argues that Haley is trying to execute “the Half Liz.” He means that she’s attempting to thread the needle between the Liz Cheney and Ron DeSantis positions on Trump: But Catoggio points out that what Haley is saying about Trump now will ultimately matter a lot less than what she says after she quits the race: I wouldn’t get my hopes up. Last notes that she is still trying to hedge her bets quoting her saying that despite all his problems, “I trust the American people to make good decisions.” “I trust the American people to make good decisions” is tautological.
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