Watch how hundreds of thousands of bats choreograph jam-packed nightly migrations with surprising grace.
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In an open letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the groups warn that the “communities and workers most affected by AI have been marginalised by the Summit” while a select few corporations seek to shape the rules. The letter has been coordinated by the TUC, Connected by Data and Open Rights Group and is released […]
“At the end of the day, the problem is the human heart. It’s not guns. It’s not the weapons.” — Speaker of the House Mike Johnson
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The problem is the human finger. Fingers are too well-engineered to fit around the trigger of an assault weapon. On other planets, life forms have fingers with no joints that are only straight. You don’t hear about gun violence on any of those planets.
The problem is the human hand. If hands did not have four fingers and a thumb, you would not be able to put a gun into the human hand. And more importantly, no one could use a phone to call for help, so we would never have to hear about all this unpleasantness.
The problem is the human arm. Humans could probably get by just fine with a big cupholder in the front instead of arms. Cupholder-humans would be a superior life-form, and guns would exist in abstract space, harming absolutely no one.
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The Lever explores the recent corporatization of the online music platform Bandcamp, amid a sale to Songtradr, and what it means for the music industry.
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So in what sense is this “dynamic stochastic general equilibrium” model firmly grounded in the principles of economic theory? I do not want to be misunderstood. Friends have reminded me that much of the effort of “modern macro” goes into the incorporation of important deviations from the Panglossian assumptions that underlie the simplistic application of […]
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October 30th, 2023: Two comics in a row On October 26, 2023, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis published the latest US National Accounts figures – Gross Domestic Product, Third Quarter 2023 (Advance Estimate) – which showed that “Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 4.9 percent in the third quarter of 2023”. The June-quarter 2023 growth rate was…
(14 Nov update) I got this badly wrong. Johnson followed the same path that doomed McCarthy, passing a short-term fix with Democratic votes. It’s hard to see why the Republicans went through all these contortions to end up where they started. Government shutdowns, and threats of shutdown, have become routine in the US, with the […]
The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has opened up his press conference today with a greeting of good morning. This has resulted in the Opposition leader, Peter Dutton putting out a press release condemning the PM for failing to include good... Read More ›
When humans embrace the dehumanization of others, we release our ugliest, most destructive selves. Dehumanization is a perverse force that propagates violence and justifies the lust for war and its atrocities. On August 6, 1945, Sakue Shimohira was 10 years old when an atomic blast obliterated her home in Hiroshima, Japan, burning her mother into an unrecognizable block of ash. Afterward, the only feature that could identify her was a single gold tooth. Sakue struggled to survive in Hiroshima’s post-apocalyptic, postwar landscape, while her older sister soon fell into despair and threw herself in front of a train. When the American soldiers of the occupying army arrived, Sakue remembered that they constructed an airstrip in front of the shack where... Read more Source: The Dehumanization of War appeared first on TomDispatch.com. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 29, 2023 by Tony Wikrent
Is There a New Left Stirring Within The New Right? John Judis [The Liberal Patriot, via Naked Capitalism Water Cooler 10-24-2023] | ||
