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Everyone’s got their thing. For some, it’s baking. Others, gardening. Me? I like to take a modified Honda Accord, drive over 100 mph, and swerve between cars, almost killing entire families, babies, men, women, whoever.

That’s my thing. Gets my balls rolling. Sometimes I’ll almost kill a family by swerving in front of them at 125 mph with just barely enough room to squeeze in, and then I’ll immediately swerve all the way over to the right and get off at the exit. I could have just slowed down and changed lanes and calmly exited, not almost killing anyone, but then I wouldn’t have almost killed an innocent family, and almost killing them is what gives me something to do when I’m bored.

By the way, I’m not trying to actually kill one. That’s not my thing at all. If that’s what you’re getting from this, then I don’t know what you’re reading or how you thought that, but you’re totally off base.

When it was announced that leftist Catherine Connolly had won a record-breaking vote to become the new Uachtarán na hÉireann, or President of Ireland, the pearl-clutching headlines from the British right-wing press were foreseeable. Conservative columnists seemingly vied for the most hysterical. A Spectator columnist mildly wrote, ‘Catherine Connolly’s election is a low for Ireland.’ […]

Exoplanet discoveries have reshaped astronomy. Are exomoons next? Brian Greene in conversation with David Kipping

- by Aeon Video

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Chicago’s roller rink skating regulars share incredible moves alongside words of wisdom in this vibrant short documentary

- Directed by Benjamin Buxton

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Our cursed age of self-monitoring and optimisation didn’t start with big tech: as so often, the Victorians are to blame

- by Elena Mary

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As a Korean adoptee, I’d never expected to meet a blood relative. Then a 23andMe email landed in my inbox

- by Andrew Lee

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Republicans are trying to permanently block central bank digital currencies that would create an alternative to profit-seeking companies.

The post You Will Never Send Money Digitally Without a Private Company — If the GOP Gets Its Way appeared first on The Intercept.

In September, a new political organisation was launched in the UK, aimed at bringing together Labour members dismayed by the party’s rightward shift. Called ‘Mainstream’, the project describes itself as ‘the home for Labour’s radical realists — united by values, driven by change; for everyone who knows that to transform the country and take on […]