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A fired aide to Pete Hegseth had laid into the Defense Policy Board, a political football dominated by hawkish establishment figures.
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With Washington think tanks shaping Trump’s latest Yemen strategy, aid cuts and escalated attacks are pushing millions of civilians back to the brink of famine, humanitarian groups warn.
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Tesla is in hot water for allegedly doctoring odometers to run out its warranties and make consumers pay for expensive repairs.
Compiled while sitting through a three-hour public hearing and rethinking life choices.
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Are you a citizen trying to understand urban planning? A newly minted planner who keeps accidentally saying “zoning entitlement” in casual conversation? A mayor who treats public hearings as open-eyed nap practice?
You’ve come to the right glossary. Only planners can magically turn a small park into a placemaking activation node. This glossary features definitions that tell the real story. Look for the one not-real-term-but-should-be.
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Active Transportation – Walking, biking, scooting, and other low-carbon ways to arrive at a meeting to discuss why it’s too hard to walk or bike anywhere.
Affordable Housing – Technically, housing that costs no more than 30 percent of your income. Practically, a rhetorical device used in PowerPoints to mean everything and nothing. (NOTE: See “Sustainability”).
Area Plan – A document designed to organize land uses, dreams, and disappointment within a five-block radius.
New data reveals Americans lost a record $9.3 billion to cryptocurrency fraud last year, yet the government has no unified strategy for combating online scams.
Paul Conroy surveys the scale of the destruction to the Svaytoshinsky neighbourhood, fifteen minutes from downtown Kyiv
The rise of Reform should worry all of those who value justice and equality and the democratic fabric of this country
The United States has been in the throes of a mental health and overdose crisis so severe it has spanned five presidential administrations and been classified as an official state of emergency in three of them. No one knows exactly how this emergency will play out during the current Trumpian cocktail of uncertainty, fear, and cuts to social services, but charts of the recent turbulence of the stock market suggest a relevant visual: imagine the nervous systems of millions of already struggling Americans, along with millions more who are being pushed to the limits of what they can handle, all experiencing deep emotional crashes, briefly recovering, only to collapse again into new lows. And while it might be tempting to... Read more
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“What do you think sunshine tastes like?” La Croix asks on its website and in the marketing materials for the launch of its latest flavor of sparkling water. You won’t be given the chance to guess, because they immediately answer their own question with “The Deliciously Fascinating Taste of WONDER!”
First of all, don’t tell me to ponder a riddle without giving me the time and resources to properly do so. And second, that tagline gets me no closer to a meaningful resolution. I see what you’re doing, La Croix. I’m an advertising professional, and I, too, can weave a mesmerizing chrysalis out of the silky strands of wordy bullshit. What is the texture of memory? What is the smell of regret? If you’re going to ask, let me cook.
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Day 1
It’s been twenty-three hours since I first found myself in this dark world of dusty puppets. A few have tried to befriend me, street rats, eyepatch-wearing cats, strutting chickens trying to make a quick bawk, but I’ve so far denied their advances. I have remnants of memories, scattered here and there of a life before, whispers of a name, but that is all. By the look of things, we seem to be in Paris, but everyone here speaks with varying British dialects. I fear I may not last the night.
Day 3
My hunger has grown to such a peak that I fear I am too weary to keep my wits about me. Toothsome aromas have lured me to the shop of a small Swedish baker, aflergel blergel-ing from his warm golden windows. Perhaps a simple baguette will suffice, tide me over until I figure out the strange source of song and dance lingering in the air here. I am not conventionally a man who steals, but what choice do I have? Besides, it is only bread. What true bad could come from that?
Ranking crimes by nationality risks stoking a repeat of last summer's racist riots, argues Minnie Rahman, who urges ministers to focus on fairness and rehabilitation instead
This blogpost has been improved based on fedi discussions around it; you can find the Polish thread here, and the English thread here. I appreciate all this input!
I have recently been asked by the Panoptykon Foundation if it was possible to create an online age verification system that would not be a privacy nightmare. I highly recommend reading their piece, which dives into several issues around age verification.
I replied that yes, under certain assumptions, this is possible. And provided a rough sketch of such a system.
But before we dive into it, I have to be clear: I am not a fan of introducing online age verification systems. Privacy is just one of the many issues related to them. I dive into some of those later in this post.
There are other sleights of hand that cause economists problems. In their quest for statistical “identification” of a causal effect, economists often have to resort to techniques that answer either a narrower or a somewhat different version of the question that motivated the research. Results from randomized social experiments carried out in particular regions of, […]
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The anti-tax movement has dominated American politics for 50 years — but it may finally be fraying.
Chronicling the families of the past shows just how much family values, feelings and decision-making can morph over time
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