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Fear is not the enemy, but a real and legitimate emotion. To truly support another in their fear, let them give it a voice

- by Ami Harbin

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Keju, China’s incredibly difficult civil service test, strengthened the state at the cost of freedom and creativity

- by Yasheng Huang

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Nearing death, a father tells his daughter the truth about his time in Auschwitz. His story becomes a room she cannot leave

- by Aeon Video

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“They’re kind of failing upwards when they’re not only staying in the department but they’re also being promoted.”

The post NYPD Cops Sued for Misconduct Cost City Millions in Settlements — Then Get Promotions appeared first on The Intercept.

Simon Lloyd, Daniel Ostry and Balduin Bippus How much capital flows move exchange rates is a central question in international macroeconomics. A major challenge to addressing it has been the difficulty identifying exogenous cross-border flows, since flows and exchange rates can evolve simultaneously with factors like risk sentiment. In this post, we summarise a staff … Continue reading The granular origins of exchange-rate fluctuations →

The Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest – Labour Force, Australia – for September 2023 today (October 19, 2023). My overall assessment is that the the labour market is now looking subdued although relatively stable. The decline in full-time employment is a worry. Almost all the net change in employment over the last six…

The putative GOP nominee shows his priorities Trump: They want to keep me here instead of campaigning in Iowa… They want me to be here *3 minutes later* Reporter: Will you be back tomorrow? Trump: Probably not. We’re having a very big professional golf tournament at Doral, so probably not pic.twitter.com/l8TUIbASUv — Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) October 18, 2023 And he doesn’t have to be at the trial ever. He just wants the attention he gets at the Courthouse. It’s his current version of chopper talk.

This is the text of the 2023 Alex Macdonald Memorial Lecture, delivered by Phil Griffiths. With thanks to the Brisbane Labour History Association.

The post White Australia and the labour movement first appeared on Solidarity Online.

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ALEXIS O’Brien, a twelve-year-old Coffs Harbour martial arts champion, returned from the QLD State Championship Title Karate event in September with five first place State Title trophies along with an ‘Outstanding Athlete’ trophy for winning performances throughout the weekend’s competitions. With this success under her belt, she’s heading confidently into her next competition. Alexis will...

The post Alexis O’Brien is emerging as a martial arts national champion appeared first on News Of The Area.

Act like a bunch of clowns The Republican circus is not playing well in those swing districts. How could it? These people are a joke: In California’s 45th Congressional District, along Western Avenue in Buena Park, a giant billboard is set to display a photograph of Representative Michelle Steel next to former President Donald J. Trump and Representative Jim Jordan, the Republican hard-liner from Ohio she voted for twice this week for speaker. “Rep. Steel Supports Extremism,” the billboard reads. “Stop the extremism.” The advertising campaign, paid for by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, is part of a broad effort by Democrats to target Republicans like Ms. Steel, who represent congressional districts that President Biden won in 2020. A dozen of those vulnerable G.O.P. lawmakers have stood on the House floor this week and cast their votes to put Mr. Jordan second in line to the presidency. Another group, the Congressional Integrity Project, began a digital ad campaign this week in those same districts, focusing on Mr. Jordan and his attempts to overthrow the 2020 election.

After leading a failed military coup, a failed mercenary invasion of his country, and a non-existent presidency, Juan Guaidó gets his golden parachute at an intelligence-adjacent US university. This article was originally published by Jeremy Kuzmarov in Covert Action Magazine. Florida International University has appointed Juan Guaidó, a Venezuelan coup leader created in the U.S. regime-change laboratory, as a visiting professor. An engineer by training, Guaidó’s appointment is at the Adam Smith Center for Economic Freedom, which FIU describes as a […]

The post Failed Venezuelan coup leader Juan Guaidó lands new gig as visiting prof at Florida International U first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post Failed Venezuelan coup leader Juan Guaidó lands new gig as visiting prof at Florida International U appeared first on The Grayzone.

Josh Marshall on the Gaza Hospital blast. Like him, I have zero expertise on these issues so I have to try to find credible sources to inform me. I have been seeing the same thing: I have no ability to evaluate grainy videos or make sense of what different blast patterns look like. But I’ve spent several years developing lists of open source intelligence and forensics analysts who are consistently credible. You’ve seen some of this in the various Twitter lists I sometimes post here. Credible doesn’t mean always right, of course. By credible in this case I mean analysts who are highly knowledgeable in one relevant domain, use an empirical framework for analyzing videos, open source data, etc., and have a proven track record of the appropriate level of caution and skepticism in drawing conclusions. Many of these people come out of the Bellingcat world, others got started (at least publicly) analyzing the Syrian and Ukraine conflicts.

Some modern image generators rely on the principles of diffusion to create images. There may be a better alternative.

The post The Physical Process That Powers a New Type of Generative AI appeared first on Nautilus.

Tributes continue to pour in for inventor of the dad joke Iva Biggin, who died tragically after being torn apart by a bear at the zoo, most hoping that he now rests in pieces. “We’re very sad because we’ve lost... Read More ›

On November 1st, BBC Four's Talking Doctor Who sees David Tennant exploring the show's 60-year history & #WhoSpy is back with another clue.