War Secretary Pete Hegseth insists “the ceasefire is not over,” despite renewed combat between U.S. and Iranian forces.
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“More than 1 in 4 [students at University of Maine at Presque Isle’s online MyPace program] finished their entire degree course load in a single eight-week session, half the length of a traditional academic semester.” — The Washington Post
- – -Thanks to the hassle of reading, writing, doing equations, performing lab experiments, speaking to professors and peers, comprehending topics, growing as a person, and, in general, learning, going to college is extremely time-consuming. That’s why our university offers an online degree program, during which you will not need to read, write, do equations, perform experiments, speak to anyone, comprehend topics, grow, or learn.
You could have completed your first semester instead of reading that paragraph.
Watchdog asked to investigate after party's home affairs spokesperson 'guarantees' areas electing Reform MPs will be exempt from 24,000-capacity migrant facilities
The popular streamer offers easy answers for why the world has left young men feeling unhappy and alone.
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The Democratic party is picking early favorites in hotly-contested primary battles across the country.
Tapped to advise Steve Witkoff on Iran, Nick Stewart previously condemned dealing with any of Iran’s elected leaders. His presence consolidates military conflict as the Trump administration’s only option. The latest addition to the Trump administration’s Iran negotiation team, Nick Stewart, has declared his absolute opposition to negotiating with the Islamic Republic of Iran. According to Stewart, “it’s important that we disabuse people of that notion” that anyone among Iran’s current leadership could serve as an “honest broker.” Stewart aruged […]
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Reform UK repeatedly cold-called journalist Lucy Gape asking if she would stand as a local candidate. When she looked into it, it revealed a world of poor vetting and murky data practices
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With warmth, humor, and occasional run-ins with bodily fluids, science journalist (and frequent McSweeney’s contributor) Elizabeth Preston leads a highly accessible tour of cutting-edge research into how and why other animals and humans care for their young. She discovers that we evolved to raise our kids in cooperative groups, and that the tools we’ve inherited for caretaking aren’t only for moms or dads—they’re the basis for our human society.
Today, we’re happy to share an excerpt from The Creatures’ Guide to Caring: How Animal Parents Teach Us That Humans Were Born to Care. It is available to purchase at the fine bookseller of your choice.
A new form of capital is ascending: cloud capital—networked algorithmic machines that grant their owners remarkable powers to modify our behaviour. And just as financiers needed neoliberalism, today’s tech lords need a new ideology to legitimise their rule. I call it techlordism. Yanis Varoufakis Tue 21 Apr 2026 22.00 AEST Society & Inequality _Photo: AAP […]
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At 9:03 a.m., Ms. Delgado makes the mistake of asking the class what their parents do for work.
“Dentist,” says Maya.
“Firefighter,” says Liam.
“Bus driver,” says Emma.
Oliver raises his hand. “My dad mines crypto.”
Ms. Delgado nods politely, the way adults do when they encounter a sentence they hope will not require follow-up questions.
Unfortunately, Sophie raises her hand. “What’s crypto?”
Ms. Delgado considers saying she doesn’t know. Instead, she says, “Imagine everyone has stickers.”
The class brightens immediately. Stickers are a language they understand.
“Everyone gets ten stickers,” Ms. Delgado says, drawing circles on the whiteboard. “You can trade them with each other.”
Oliver nods approvingly. “Yes,” he says. “That’s like crypto.”
“Great,” says Ms. Delgado. “So if Liam wants one of Maya’s stickers, he gives her something for it.”
Liam raises his hand. “What if Maya says she never gave me the sticker?”
The thought experiment that divides people over free will, rationality and how to approach life itself
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Inevitably, your partner will get on your nerves. A couples therapist explains how to talk about it well – and be heard
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Rhun ap Iorwerth claims only Plaid Cymru can stop Reform taking power in the Senedd, as he urges Labour and Green voters to back him in a "straight fight" against Farage's party
Video processing firm Sightline Intelligence, which claims its AI can separate civilians from militants, faces protests at home.
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Will Banks and Kemal Erçevik When extreme weather hits, households typically turn to insurers to cushion the financial blow. But rising temperatures and greater exposure in high-risk areas could test the insurance sector’s capacity to absorb such losses. As the Financial Policy Committee has highlighted, climate change could create insurance protection gaps, leaving households vulnerable … Continue reading Opening the floodgates? Modelling spillovers from flood insurance protection gaps to UK mortgages
Now let’s be clear, I don’t expect a famine in America, though I do expect a lot more people to die from hunger because food prices are going to be a lot higher. Fertilizer in America: Note that in addition to the war, this is a policy failure at the domestic level. Farmers should be […]
From predatory pricing to blocked mergers, the forces that sunk Spirit reveal how concentrated corporate power controls our skies.
At DrupalCon Chicago, the Driesnote included a visualization with “community” as one of the three pillars of Drupal, along with “platform” and “agencies.” That framing felt memorable, and worth exploring further.
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In an exclusive in-person interview, David Sirota grills Graham Platner on whether to engage the right or draw a hard line.
Displacement … is not the only problem: the identity politics model of recognition tends also to reify identity. Stressing the need to elaborate and display an authentic, self-affirming and self-generated collective identity, it puts moral pressure on individual members to conform to a given group culture. Cultural dissidence and experimentation are accordingly discouraged, when they […]