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Sometimes with legislation. Sometimes with guns. Pundits and news sites are still analyzing fallout from CNN’s Trump “town hall” spectacle. We learned nothing about the former president we did not already know. The fiasco changed no minds. James Fallows invoked “shocking but not surprising” to summarize the show. “Don’t say you haven’t been warned” sits atop Susan Glasser’s review. The jeers and laughter from the Trump mob, she writes, “was the tell, the most revealing part of the whole exercise.” Without “the approval of the mob, his mob,” Trump “would be just another angry old American man” shouting at his TV instead of being on TV. It is the audience for his shtick that gives it power, and us pause. The relationship is symbiotic, but Trump is not telling them anything they don’t want to hear. Trump has his grievances, but he validates theirs, gives them permission to wear “Fuck Your Feelings” tee shirts in public. He reads the room. He sees them and makes them feel seen in all their dark seething. He is their retribution.

James Connolly was born on June 5, 1868, to a working-class family in the Cowgate ghetto of Edinburgh. His father John was an unskilled labourer, working first collecting manure and then managing public toilets in the city. He and his wife Mary were Irish famine emigrants from Monaghan, moving to Scotland at a time when […]

New evidence reveals that Ukraine's infamous covert “kill list” is a product of the Ukraine regime, effectively funded by the CIA, amongst others, and hosted by NATO.

The post “Independent” Ukrainian “Kill List” Actually Run By Kiev, Backed by Washington  appeared first on MintPress News.

FROM: Jason Finch, senior associate
TO: All partners, Quartz Oak Venture Fund
MEMO: Incredible early-stage startup for our AI tranche: Allison Miller

Intro: Everyone in the VC space is scrambling to find the next OpenAI and revolutionize the field. I present for your consideration the most promising investment opportunity I’ve seen in my whole time with the fund: Allison Miller. While competitors are pouring billions of dollars into incremental AI capability gains, Allison developed a multimodal general intelligence in just 9 months with 0 compute budget and only one collaborator (who just contributed some of the startup code). Extraordinary superunicorn potential.

Product: Allison’s minimum viable product is LIAM (no official explanation, but I’m guessing this may stand for Logical Intelligent Agent Model). The launch announcement is already generating massive buzz among those who’ve gotten hands-on. Key features of this state-of-the-art model include:

Karam Bales looks at the COVID-19 pseudoscience and the anti-vaxxer conspiracies that propelled the former Conservative MP out of his party

Merve Pehlivan explores the different reasons increasing numbers of women are choosing not to stay covered

Ryan Grim and guests discuss Turkey’s upcoming election, Imran Khan’s arrest in Pakistan, and recent airstrikes on Gaza.

The post Around the World Update: Turkey, Pakistan, and Palestine appeared first on The Intercept.

Full of implicit rules and paradoxes, sulking is a marvellous example of intense communication without clear declaration

- by Rebecca Roache

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Hugh Pope reports from the provincial Turkish town of Kumluca ahead of an election which is predicted to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from power

The Prime Minister's attempt to stop the clock on social progress is backfiring as Britain becomes increasingly tolerant and open-minded, reports Adam Bienkov

. Simpson’s paradox is an interesting paradox in itself, but it also highlights a deficiency in the traditional econometric approach towards causality. Say you have 1000 observations on men and an equal amount of observations on women applying for admission to university studies, and that 70% of men are admitted, but only 30% of women. […]

In our COLOR issue, we asked The Nib’s Inkwell members. Illustrated by Maki Naro.

America gets an injection of pure Trump.