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Thu, 22/02/2024 - 01:18

Ever since an infantile fascist billionaire (hereafter, the IFB) decided to turn Twitter over to the racially hostile anti-science set, folks who previously used that network daily to discuss and amplify topics they cared about have either given up on the very premise of a shared digital commons, continued to post to Twitter while holding […]

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Thu, 22/02/2024 - 01:00
Greed and its fallout “Where once We the People held capitalism’s leash, now we wear the collar.” It’s something I’ve repeated since taking the Hullabaloo morning shift ten years ago. “Working people know in their guts they work for the economy, not the other way around.” Joe Biden gets it. In July 2021, he spoke of ensuring “that our economy isn’t about people working for capitalism; it’s about capitalism working for people.” Unfair competition and monopolies the Roosevelts once worked to rein in have landed us in a second Gilded Age. “Forty years ago, we chose the wrong path, in my view,” Biden said, “following the misguided philosophy of people like Robert Bork, and pulled back on enforcing laws to promote competition.”  People still know in their guts they are getting screwed, write Katherine J. Cramer and Jonathan D.
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Thu, 22/02/2024 - 00:00

1. “For a thing like that to happen is a disgrace / And frankly, it shouldn’t have happened / That I can tell you / It shouldn’t have happened.”

2. “If we can destroy them / You bet your life we will destroy them / If we can hurt them / Well, we may as well.”

3. “I fully understand / Why her former husband left her for a man / He made a good decision.”

4. “No more apologies / No more apologies/ I’m too tired/ I’m so sick and tired.”

5. “Has the world changed / Or have I changed?”

6. “This could only happen to me / Who has been through anything like this?”

7. “We hate it when our friends become successful.”

8. “It is so crazy / That people don’t even believe it / It can’t be true / So they don’t believe it.”

9. “London is dead / London is dead.”

10. “It’s dying / Everyone is leaving New York.”

11. “When you’re talking about an atmosphere / Oceans are very small / And it blows over / And it sails over.”

12. “England for the English.”

13. “I’ll let you know someday / Let’s see what happens / But I may let you know / Who’s not doing their job.”

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Wed, 21/02/2024 - 23:10

Starting today, the Drupal 11.x branch is used for building the next major Drupal version, Drupal 11. This means that major version specific changes can now happen on the Drupal 11.x branch. This includes dependency and requirements updates and removal of deprecated API and extensions. Details are available in the allowed changes during Drupal core release cycle document.

Drupal 11 is planned to be released either on the week of June 17, week of July 29 or week of December 9, 2024, depending on when beta requirements are completed.

A 10.3.x branch was created to work on the upcoming minor version. Drupal 10.3.0 will be released on the week of June 17, 2024.

Issues should remain targeted at the 11.x branch and will be backported when appropriate.

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Wed, 21/02/2024 - 23:09

Μια πραγματικά εφ’ όλης της ύλης ωριαία συνέντευξη στο πρόσφατο ΣΚΛΗΡΟ ΜΑΡΚΑΡΙΣΜΑ – μιας σειρά που δημιούργησε το ΜέΡΑ25 για να απαντήσει στη μιντιακή συστημική μονοφωνία, με συνεντεύξεις όπως έπρεπε να είναι, χωρίς ταμπού και υπαγορευμένες ερωτήσεις. Για την ανασυγκρότηση του ΜέΡΑ25 «Μπαίνοντας στη μάχη δε συζητάς για την ήττα», ήταν η απάντηση του Γιάνη […]

The post «Σκληρό Μαρκάρισμα» : Γιάνης Βαρουφάκης – Βασίλης Σκουρής (σεζόν #2, επεισόδιο #2) appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

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Wed, 21/02/2024 - 22:56
February 19, 2024 ROBERT SKIDELSKY Labour leaders’ decision to abandon their highly publicized Green Prosperity Plan underscores the party’s ongoing failure to articulate a coherent response to Conservative criticism. Instead of focusing on bolstering their fiscal credentials, Labour leaders should reconnect with the party’s Keynesian roots. LONDON – Following months of speculation and infighting, the … Continue reading The UK Labour Party’s Green-Energy Debacle
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Wed, 21/02/2024 - 22:47
Mainstream economics has sadly made economics increasingly irrelevant to the understanding of the real world. Trying to contribute to making economics a more realistic and relevant science, yours truly launched this blog in 2011. Now, thirteen years later and with millions of page views yours truly is — together with people like e.g. Paul Krugman, […]
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Wed, 21/02/2024 - 20:00
Alice Crundwell and William Bennett Accurate measures of the number of firms at risk of failure are becoming increasingly important for policymakers, as corporate insolvencies are continuing to rise and interest rates are expected to remain higher than over much of the past decade. The share of vulnerable firms is often assessed by looking at … Continue reading Stressed or in distress? How best to measure corporate vulnerability
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Wed, 21/02/2024 - 19:17
. Mainstream economists have always wanted to use their hammer, and so have decided to pretend that the world looks like a nail. Pretending that uncertainty can be reduced to risk and that all activities, relations, processes, and events can be adequately converted to pure numbers, have only contributed to making economics irrelevant and powerless […]
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Wed, 21/02/2024 - 19:13
So Cosma Shalizi and I have an article (messy pre-print) coming out Real Soon in Communications of the ACM on democracy, polarization and social media. And Nate Matias, who I’m friends with, has forceful objections. I’ve promised him a response – which is below – but am doing it as a blogpost, since I think […]