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I thought we had come to the Home Depot to replace the metal numbers on my mother’s mailbox. But the problem we bring is not the problem we leave with. We walk down an aisle full of toilets, sinks, and light switches. Inexplicably, we are soon considering a patio repaving. And then new carpet for my brother’s bedroom, and a garage conversion. At the Home Depot, home improvement dreams begin to look like a matter of elbow grease and the right YouTube video.

After the Supreme Court overturned Glossip’s conviction, prosecutors claimed to have “a plethora of evidence,” while offering none.

The post Oklahoma Seeks New Conviction of Richard Glossip Using Old Evidence appeared first on The Intercept.

There are numerous reasons why my wife and I decided to have kids, like learning what it means to be parents, and providing an idyllic childhood that we lacked ourselves. But none mattered as much as procreating so we could blow off our single friends, particularly Jeff.

When you bring a child into this world, it lets you experience the joy of pushing out friendships from that same world. There is no better excuse to gradually recede from the guy who will never get his shit together. I have a child to care for, so no, Jeff, I can’t call you back, or come to the bar, or hear about the used-bookstore girl who dumped you. I must feed and clothe and bathe a helpless human life, and no longer have the time to do any of that for you.

Thousands of angry Brisbane construction workers walked off the job on Thursday morning, assembling outside the union’s office, where they voted for a 48-hour strike.

The post Brisbane CFMEU members stop work in defiance after High Court upholds Administration first appeared on Solidarity Online.

Surveying his life, Carl Jung reflects on the collective unconscious, his clash with Freud and humanity’s uncertain future

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- by Fleur Hopkins-Loféron

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Taylor Lorenz and Akela Lacy on how bots, influencers, and political actors distort real-world violence before facts emerge.

The post The Disinformation Machine After a Murder appeared first on The Intercept.

Some people tune into bodily sensations while daydreaming, others don’t – with implications for anxiety, depression and ADHD

- by Leah Banellis

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Sci-fi master Adrian Tchaikovsky on evolution, other minds, and the politics of science

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But why?

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Road ecology meets community science

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Several months ago I wrote two essays on Russian grand strategy. (My apologies on never completing the nuclear one, an extremely necessary but far too grim subject for my taste.) In that series of essays I made a few assertions I want to bring to your attention again in a more contemporary context. First, that the result of wars tend to confirm strengths of the coalition arrayed against the main combatants before the war even started. This is, in fact, not an assertion, but an iron law of warfare that still exists in chimpanzee warfare. See Strategy: a history, chapter one, by Freedman if you disagree.

Second, that big global dustups tend to run in about 100 year cycles these days.

So, take a look around–got a big hot war in the Ukraine slightly analogous to the Sino-Japanese war of the 1930s. Next, you got weird, unresolved shenanigans in the Middle East that have a weird reverse-appeasement type feal.