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Wed, 15/03/2023 - 07:07
Bond Economics
What We Learned: Something Is Seriously Wrong With Silicon Valley
Brian Romanchuk

Notes on the Crisis
Every Complex Banking Issue All At Once: The Failure of Silicon Valley Bank in One Brief Summary and Five Quick Implications
Nathan Tankus

The Big Picture
All the Things We Do Not Know About SVB
Barry L. Ritholtz is co-founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management LLC.

ECNS (Chinese official English news service)
China Daily (Chinese state-sponsored media)
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Wed, 15/03/2023 - 06:50

The Drupal Community Working Group started the Aaron Winborn Awards in 2015 with the support of the Drupal Association, in honor of long-time Drupal contributor Aaron Winborn (see his Community Spotlight), who lost his battle with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS (also referred to as Lou Gehrig's Disease in the US and Motor Neuron Disease in the UK) in early 2015.

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Wed, 15/03/2023 - 06:46

The Drupal Community Working Group is pleased to announce that nominations for the 2023 Aaron Winborn Award are now open. 

This annual award recognizes an individual who demonstrates personal integrity, kindness, and above-and-beyond commitment to the Drupal community. It includes a scholarship and travel stipend for the winner to attend DrupalCon North America and recognition in a plenary session at the event.

Nominations are open to all Drupal community members*, including but not limited to people who have made a big impact in their local or regional community. If you know of someone who has made a big difference to any number of people in our community, we want to hear about it. 

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Wed, 15/03/2023 - 06:39

Drupal is an open source software project that has been building a better open web since 2001. It is built by thousands of individuals and organizations, made up of both volunteers and sponsored contributors.

If you're an end-user of Drupal you might have wondered how all this open source development works, and maybe even how you can get involved.

The key to contribution is the community. If you are an individual or member of an organization that builds your web presence on Drupal, there are many opportunities to engage with the community, learn how to contribute, and help build a better web.

So how can you get started?

One of the best ways to get involved in open source, and in Drupal specifically, is to participate in open source events.

Drupal.org publishes a list of regional and virtual community events at drupal.org/community/events

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Wed, 15/03/2023 - 06:30
DeSantis is pulling a Trump It’s the old “you can believe me or you can believe your lyin’ eyes”: In remarks last week intended to spin the narrative in his favor, DeSantis accused the “mainstream media, unions and leftist activists” of propagating a “nasty hoax” about classroom libraries being left empty due to a law he passed last year seeking to address the non-issue of “pornography” in schools. “It’s a hoax in service of trying to pollute and sexualize our children,” he said. “A lot of what’s been going on is an attempt to create a political narrative.” For those who’ve dealt with the effects on the ground, DeSantis is the one spreading falsehoods. “It’s complete gaslighting,” Marie Masferrer, a Hillsborough County Media Specialist who’s been campaigning against the law on the ground over the past year, told TPM. “The other thing that’s happening is teachers and librarians are censoring their own library themselves because they’re afraid.
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Wed, 15/03/2023 - 05:00
Their voters are very sensitive, you know Fox knows they are awful people… New text messages revealed in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News showed a former Tucker Carlson producer trash the network’s audience. Newly revealed text messages show that Alex Pfeiffer, a former producer for “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” was uneasy about covering false election conspiracy theories purported by disgraced pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell. Powell claimed to have an affidavit showing that a large number of votes had been covertly flipped by Dominion “at the direction” of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who died years earlier. Powell also said the voting software company had ties to the Clinton Foundation and Soros, claims which are also unfounded and untrue.  The Washington Post reported that Fox executive and former Trump aide Raj Shah tried to play both sides when it came to covering Powell’s lies. When former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, along with Powell, endorsed false election claims during a press conference on Nov 19, 2020, Carlson expressed doubts.
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Wed, 15/03/2023 - 04:59
A Labor government has puts guns before butter… how extraordinary! Today, Pearls and Irritations has taken the unusual step of devoting our issue line up entirely to articles on the drive to war with China and the disastrous commitment of $368 billion dollars of Australia’s public funding to nuclear submarines. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Anthony Continue reading »
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Wed, 15/03/2023 - 04:58
One of the best-known writers on public opinion, Walter Lippmann, tells us that every conflict is fought on two fronts: the battlefield and the minds of people via propaganda. ‘We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy’s side of the front is always propaganda, and what is said on Continue reading »
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Wed, 15/03/2023 - 04:51
In their Red Alert for War, doom laden experts assembled by the Sydney Morning Herald forecast a war with China. Preoccupied with cybersecurity, biosecurity, with the weaponry available in military alliances, the experts speak the language of militarism and war but have nothing to say about peace. Yet the language of peace can inspire, not Continue reading »
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Wed, 15/03/2023 - 04:50
Members of a key US House committee wanted anti-Beijing antagonism and that was what they got – together with the spectre of armed conflict. OK, I hope aspiring young reporters and journalism school students won’t be reading this column. That’s because I am going to say something I am not supposed to say out loud, Continue reading »
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Wed, 15/03/2023 - 04:49
As part of Australian media’s relentless onslaught of war–with–China propaganda, the government-run Australian Broadcasting Corporation just aired a radio segment on RN Breakfast about the newly revealed details on the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine deal, featuring two guests who are enthusiastic supporters of the deal, and hosted by another enthusiastic supporter of the deal. One of Continue reading »
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Wed, 15/03/2023 - 04:45
In an exclusive interview with The Cradle, Russia's top macroeconomics strategist criticizes Moscow's slow pace of financial reform and warns there will be no new global currency without Beijing.
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Wed, 15/03/2023 - 04:00

“Regulators shut down Silicon Valley Bank on Friday, in the largest U.S. bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis.” — The New York Times, 3/13/23

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Look, I get it, I’m a bank, and with that comes certain expectations. That I’m good with money. That I’ll protect your money. That I know what money is and how it works. But those are outdated stereotypes. Nowadays, banks can be anything, including bad with money.

When you have the last name Bank, your future is pretty much mapped out for you. You go into the family business and do your best. And my best was mismanaging funds so egregiously that it shattered Americans’ confidence in the entire US banking system.