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Sat, 14/06/2025 - 03:00

Listen up, soup for brains. Yesterday, you were just a man. But today, a doctor snipped the umbilical cord off an angry, gray alien with your name on it. And whether it was your wife, your girlfriend, or some other remarkable woman that just heave-ho’ed a pineapple out of her lady parts, your entire world’s about to get flipped like a wild-ass pancake.

Congrats, dipshit, you’re a dad now.

Being a man’s man is easy. Any douchenozzle can wake up at 5 a.m. to go to the gym and dip their junk in ice water, or whatever the hell bros are doing these days. But try waking up every two hours, every night, for twelve weeks straight to bottle-feed a screaming wolverine. Now, that’s dad shit right there.

A man might hear a baby banshee-wail and let someone else deal with it. But a dad doesn’t pawn off his late-night duties on a woman who’s still recovering from getting ripped in half. A real dad knows that chick needs some shut-eye.

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Sat, 14/06/2025 - 01:06

A huge joint stable release of AI was made yesterday, where 10 modules were updated to 1.1.0. This is a major milestone in the Drupal AI brings a host of improvements and significant new features. 

Some technical facts of the AI release:

  • 105 issues fixed on AI Core, 75 issues fixed on AI Agents and roughly 25 issues on providers.
  • 90 unique contributors on AI Core
  • 244 files changed, 6500 lines added, 15044 lines removed on AI Core.

The most important update is function calling and a new agent framework, but here is a list of some other new features:

Created
Fri, 13/06/2025 - 23:30

Three visits to Magic Jewelry, a small shop in Manhattan’s Chinatown, where spectral photographs reveal something more than aura color.

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Today we live in the Great Vibes epoch. Inherent yet ephemeral, vibes are difficult to measure. They’re the perfect concept for a period when “if you know, you know” is answer enough. Uncertainty is the fraught space where pseudo-prophetic practices like aura photography thrive. Still, who doesn’t want promises of self-knowledge, healing, and growth when we know what the problems are but change seems futile?

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Fri, 13/06/2025 - 18:49

On Tuesday, June 10 2025, I addressed a meeting at the European Parliament, an event organised by The Left and M5S Europa, on the theme of “The Economic Conditions for Peace”, alongside Jeffrey Sachs and Giuseppe Conte. My talk can be watched and read here. [INTRODUCTION] A year ago, I would have started this speech with a lament […]

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Fri, 13/06/2025 - 18:02
Let me state my two main conclusions. First, starting from sharply different views, there has been substantial convergence, both in terms of methodology and in terms of architecture. Second, this convergence has been mostly in the right direction, allowing future research to build on the existing conceptual structure. Put strongly, macroeconomics may have a claim […]
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Fri, 13/06/2025 - 11:43

‘I do love the creatures I hunt’, writes Patrick Galbraith in Uncommon Ground: Rethinking Our Relationship With The Countryside. ‘I love snipe in sundrenched winter meadows and it’s never really autumn, I think, until the teal are in.’ Like many who take part in activities like shooting and wildfowling, Galbraith — a former editor at […]