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I’ll be the first to admit music is not my strong suit. Of course, I did master the violin by age three, wrote my first opera at four, and was performing Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen as a soloist with the Vienna Philharmonic in kindergarten—but those were the simpler days of my youth. Now I’m nine years old and building experimental AI military technology at MIT, and (sigh) most days it feels as if I’m the only kid in the world attempting to harness fusion power for long-range precision drones.

Nonetheless, I keep an eye on various r/genius message boards on the off chance they might one day discover another one out there, another person with a mind of such beautiful and terrifying immensity, another child like me, and I might finally have someone to play with (or destroy). Instead, I have been alerted to the existence of some sort of indie rock trio, apparently quite popular, calling themselves boygenius [sic].

Byline Times speaks to Ukrainian women taken advantage of in the UK's cleaning and hospitality sectors

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Republicans are trying to thwart the president’s power to declare a climate emergency amid record-breaking heat.

The U.S. sent cluster munitions to Ukraine, and Vladimir Putin warns “the right to take reciprocal action.”

The post The Indiscriminate Rain of Cluster Bombs appeared first on The Intercept.

The teenage busboy who comforted a potential US president – how Juan Romero’s life changed the day Robert F Kennedy was killed

- by Aeon Video

Watch at Aeon

David Sirota sits down with a writers guild member to dig into the ongoing Hollywood writers and actors strike.

Are you so strict with yourself that it’s become a burden? Gain freedom and flexibility with these therapeutic techniques

- by Danielle Doucette

Read at Psyche

Mike Eggleston and his team work to expand partnerships in lower-income communities with the goal of increasing economic mobility for residents.

Facing extradition to Florida, Craig Lang joined an ultranationalist militia in Ukraine after Russia invaded in 2022.

The post Wanted for Murder, an Army Vet Escaped to Ukraine — and Fought the Russians appeared first on The Intercept.

Purchasing power parity doctrine is examined by sophisticated statistical and econometric techniques. The time series of aggregated price levels and the nominal exchange rates are treated as a random sample. Most papers of this type deal with the technical properties of the slightly different data sets. To take some examples (at random): “Two potential problems […]

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) economists have argued from the outset that using interest rate rises to subdue inflationary pressures may in fact add to those pressures through their impact on business costs. Businesses with outstanding trade credit or overdrafts will use their market power to pass the higher borrowing costs on to consumers. In more…

Disruption is good! When investors do it.

Open Rights Group has received legal advice from Dan Squires KC and Emma Foubister of Matrix Chambers, which states that measures in the Online Safety Bill may involve breaches of international law. The legal opinion examines Clause 9(2) of the Bill, which places a duty on online platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, to prevent […]