The BBC is a key employer and a major creator of arts and entertainment, but neither role appears to matter yet in the ongoing review of its charter. That charter — the constitutional basis for the corporation, setting out its public purpose and governance — is now under review, with the government’s Green Paper published […]
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The time I said, “Hey buddy,” to my wife, and my daughter responded, “She is NOT a buddy.”
The time on vacation when she said, “We are going to dinner AGAIN? We are going to ANOTHER restaurant?”
The time she was whimpering and her mom asked her if she was okay and she said, “Yes, I okay. I just freaking out.”
The time she asked me what I was doing, and I said I was stretching my muscles, and she responded, “You don’t have any muscles. I have BIG muscles. YOU have elbows.”
The time she said, “Can I ask you a question? Do you want to be good or do you want to be what the heck?”
The time she named her new doll Baby Annie the Bear Hunter, and I realized I would never name anything that perfectly at my marketing job. (See also: the time she made me a pretend cocktail called “Crash Fart.”)
The time I told her, “I love you so much,” and she said, “Not me,” and I went, “Oh?” and she responded, “I love my mom.”
The time she handed me a rock and said, “No, eat it!”
Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice tell the Reform leader that the conspiracy views revealed by Byline Times are "an insult" to the 230,000 people who died in the pandemic
How humans built beautiful, lasting structures without science or mathematics, using only engineering rules of thumb
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AI can take over many writing tasks. But there is something irreplaceable about a text with an author standing behind it
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A brain fit for the 21st century is one that understands – and respects – its own bioenergetic foundations
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The Cost of Loving I love you more than life itselfbut I swear I’ll love you betterif you let me turn the heating offand you wear another sweater. I cannot get enough of you –I’m completely in your thrall.I love to watch you bending overto unplug the telly at the wall. Yes, you’re the only…
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Most of the examples of fiscal austerity leave one puzzled as a result of the sheer myopia that is usually present – the ‘save a penny today to spend a dollar tomorrow’ sort of nonsense that history tells us repeats when governments try to reduce spending in areas that it should not. But sometimes one…
Experiments are hard to carry out in economics, and the theoretical ‘analogue’ models economists construct, and in which they perform their ‘thought experiments’, build on assumptions that are far removed from the kind of idealised conditions under which natural scientists perform their experiments. The ‘nomological machines’ that natural scientists have been able to construct have […]
There’s a divide between those seeking to end all U.S. weapons deals with Israel and those who want to allow some exceptions. The post Democrats Are Split Over What It Means to Block Israel Weapons Deals appeared first on The Intercept. The Question Erm, well – I begin, shifting nervously in my chair – if it’s true there is no heaven and no hell, no eternity or long hereafter, no divine plan or offstage direction from an invisible hand, then how do we make sense of it all, how do we make our way through this life,this glorious, ridiculous,…
Rockhill is a master of guilt by association, guilt by geography, or guilt by anything at all. Sherlock Holmes’s “the dog that did not bark” becomes Rockhill’s dog that never barks, a fact that confirms guilt everywhere. He claims that after the war, Adorno and Horkheimer, having returned to Frankfurt, worked with scholars who had […]
Twenty people were arrested yesterday for defying Queensland’s ban on Palestine protest slogans. The post Twenty arrested in Brisbane as activists defy ban on Palestine protest slogans first appeared on Solidarity Online. Back in the 1980s, I was (among other things) a writer and singer of satirical folk songs. Going to the National Folk Festival in Canberra at Easter, I caught up with old friends and was reminded that I had produced a book of my songs. Returning home, I dug out a copy, and decided to […]
Hungarian MP — and future health minister — Zsolt Hegedüs celebrates as autocratic Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was defeated in a landslide 🙂
Out of the blue, my childhood friend and former neighbor Rita texted me a while ago to tell me that she had gone back to Lebanon, where we both grew up, for the first time in forty-three years. A few seconds later, she sent me several photos. One showed the building we both lived in in the Beirut neighborhood of Achrafieh, which my family moved out of in 1986 when we immigrated to the U.S. Another showed a set of stairs, with dank and dirty walls and steps. “Our shelter,” Rita, who has lived in Canada since 1980, wrote. It was an innocuous image, but it was loaded with emotions. I could smell the musty, metallic air of those stairs, which led to the basement. At the bottom, to the left, was our past and our life of fear, dread, and threat. During an edition of ITV's This Morning, Peter Capaldi explained what it is about Doctor Who fans that makes him "feel a little bit magical."
For fifteen years or so, I’d been kicking around the idea of resurrecting the artist-apprentice model that reigned in the art world for hundreds of years. Again and again, I’d heard from young people who lamented the astronomical and ever-rising cost of art school. For many college-level art programs, the total cost to undergraduates is now over $100,000 a year. I hope we can all agree that charging students $400,000 for a four-year degree in visual art is objectively absurd. And this prohibitive cost has priced tens of thousands of potential students out of even considering undertaking such an education. For years, I mentioned this issue to friends in and out of the art world, and everyone, without exception, agreed that the system was broken. Even friends I know who teach at art schools agreed that the cost was out of control, and these spiraling costs were contributing to the implosion of many undergraduate and postgraduate art programs. Maxine Waters, the scourge of crypto, could become Financial Services Committee chair if Democrats win the House in midterm elections. The post Crypto Critic Maxine Waters’s New Primary Foe Got Over Two-Thirds of Money From Crypto appeared first on The Intercept. Titan Comics July 2026 full solicits with Black Star, Conan, Doctor Who, Dead By Daylight, Solomon Kane, Gun Honey and Venom
“A.I. capacity may soon displace oil or enriched uranium as the resource that dictates the global balance of power. [Open AI’s C.E.O.] Sam Altman has said that computing power is ‘the currency of the future.’” — The New Yorker - - - Gather around, everyday working people, and allow me to lay out a grand vision for a brave new world. A world in which all economic functions are done by computers and robots. A world where the very concept of having money no longer exists (for all of you). “How does this work?” You ask in excitement and awe. “Surely there must be some form of standardized economic unit that facilitates the exchange of goods and services.” And yes, there will be, of course. But you don’t have to worry about that, because you will simply have none of it. Only I and like twelve other people will have it. | ||