Three upstart candidates have bold plans to win back working-class voters and fix the Democratic Party.
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Ticketmaster’s new trick, a dirty map fight, private jets go dark, and more from The Lever this week.
Plus, how social media shortens your life, a reclusive billionaire’s private bridge, and the Biden legislation that quietly fueled mass foreclosures.
Solidarity Melbourne Branch Committee statement
The post A broad, united anti-racist response to the ‘March for Australia’ is needed to defeat the far right first appeared on Solidarity Online.
David Sirota’s full interview with the “greed beat” journalist about the bizarre ways the mega-rich are spending their millions.
I do these occasional posts about science papers. Some are just for fun. But sometimes — honest! — there’s an underlying connection to the greater Crooked Timber project. This post is one of that sort, because it’s about the limits of understanding. Unsurprisingly, it involves biology. So we all learned back in high school that […]
A current DoD official and many military legal experts say the U.S. attack on a boat in the Caribbean near Venezuela broke international law.
The post Pentagon Official: Trump Boat Strike Was a Criminal Attack on Civilians appeared first on The Intercept.
The radical urbanist media loves to throw around baseless accusations like “rampage.” “Godzilla rampages,” “cities destroyed in rampage,” and “world in the grip of rampagism.” The word has lost all meaning by this point. And it’s not even fair because the lawful, beautiful actions that I undertook around the globe against the likes of Tokyo or New York were anything but a rampage. It was a precise enforcement of the law meant to keep everyone safe.
I have nothing against cities. There are plenty of good, honest cities out there just trying to get on with their lives. I’ve known some really great cities in my time. But when a city shows up without papers, without proper authorization, just popping up out of the blue instead of doing things legally, the right way, I have no choice but to act swiftly and decisively. These are really bad ciudades we’re dealing with here. You see an innocent skyline; I see a potential security threat. Those towers can be signaling enemy kaiju. Those electric lights may be sending signals into space meant for alien invaders. You don’t know. I’m not willing to take that risk.
Last week’s webinar brought together three voices helping to shape the Drupal AI Initiative: Paul Johnson, Christoph Breidert, and Kristen Pol. Together, they painted a picture of where Drupal is headed with AI, and what the community is already learning through direct experimentation.
Watch the full webinar recording on The Drupal Association YouTube Channel.
Paul opened with key takeaways from the global AI survey. 79.2% of respondents reported using AI in their everyday work, and over 61% of organisations were already running internal experiments. One message was clear: AI isn’t theoretical anymore. People are trying, testing, and shipping.
The majority of respondents, 79.2%, reported that they were using AI in their everyday work.
— Paul Johnson
A shooter killed two children and injured 21 people—three adults in their 80s and 18...
An American plan to disarm Hezbollah is creating tension — with Israel waiting in the wings.
The post Are Trump’s Middle East Envoys Pushing Lebanon Into Another Civil War? appeared first on The Intercept.
Her guru was strong enough to stop his own heart—but was there a more frightening aspect of his power?
DISCUSSED:
Swami Rama, Living with the Himalayan Masters, Biofeedback, The Menninger Foundation, Exquisite Control, Sanskrit, Guru-hood, Child-Memory, The Smell of Cigarettes and Cologne, Palo Alto, Ayurveda, A Fucked-Up Zen Koan, Yoga Journal, Katharine Webster, Sexual Violence, Shiva, Logical Contortions, Pandits, The Rubric of Desirability.
You don’t have to take off your shoes anymore, unless you want to. If you’ve realized that the pair you chose is terrible, you can still put them into a bin and slide them into the scanner, because it’s our job to stop bad decisions from making their way onto airplanes.
“We are confiscating these shoes,” we will announce loudly. “Not because their wearer has atrocious taste, but because they are dangerous.”
You can reclaim your shoes at the baggage carousel. Whether you should is between you and your God.
If you’re into crafts, be aware that knitting needles are fine now. Yes, that includes the long, thick ones that look like railroad spikes. We noticed that only “women of a certain age” really use those.
If an eighty-five-year-old woman wants to stab someone with a knitting needle, quite frankly, she’s earned it. Whoever gets it probably had it coming.
Throughout history, writers have received patronage from richer, more powerful members of their societies. They have also tested the limits of this patronage: Shakespeare, a member of the King’s Men, an acting company that had exclusive control over its productions, wisely set all his plays involving regicide outside England or in the distant past; Jane […]
EXCLUSIVE: Richard Tice MP co-owns Buckinghamshire estate with tennis court and lake – despite his attacks on Rayner's £800,000 flat purchase
Leading doctors have accused Nigel Farage of putting lives at risk by letting Aseem Malhotra give the only health-related address at the conference
Foad Farahi resisted the FBI for two decades. Then the Trump administration rounded him up.
The post This Imam Refused to Be an FBI Informant. Now ICE Wants to Deport Him. appeared first on The Intercept.
All towns, big and small, are animals
The post Cities Obey the Laws of Living Things appeared first on Nautilus.
Rabidly consuming TV shows, movies, or books could make us more imaginative and able to cope with stress
The post Here’s Why Binge-Watching Is Good for You appeared first on Nautilus.
The quest for better tools is more ancient than we thought
The post These Early Humans Walked 8 Miles for the Perfect Rock appeared first on Nautilus.
On July 28, Awdah Hathaleen was shot and killed in broad daylight by Yinon Levi, a settler extremist with a documented history of violence against Palestinians. While Levi was released to house arrest after just one night in detention, Israeli authorities immediately withheld Hathaleen’s body from his grieving family — exemplifying a calculated strategy of […]
The entertainment giant’s new user terms block class action suits and steer complaints into corporate-friendly arbitration, potentially defying a judge’s orders.
The EPA just paved the way for a nationwide buildout of chemical recycling facilities that boost fossil fuels, spew emissions, and don’t appear to work.
Welcome, parents. I am excited to lead your children through second grade, and I look forward to discussing all the progress they will make.
Simultaneously, Back-to-School Night is traditionally a time to meet the teacher and learn about their life. If we linger on that, the discussion will not be fun. I predict that outside the classroom, my life will continue to resemble the B-plot in a near-future dystopian series on the CW.
Each day, I will rise in my studio apartment, which I share with Charles. Charles recently lost his electrician’s license due to the misuse of multimeters. I will shower and dress, eating a small amount of toothpaste, trying to balance my need for the trace calories found in toothpaste against the danger of fluoride poisoning. Charles and I will bid each other a formal goodbye. He will, without rising from the couch, tip his ball cap, and I will, in turn, awkwardly hold up my shoulder bag in nonsensical reciprocation. Charles and I are roommates only, hardly more than passing acquaintances. His friends call him Chuck. I do not.
I will then travel to school on foot, walking 2.4 miles along the frontage road. There is no sidewalk.