Behind every budget fight is a system designed to block real trade-offs and protect the status quo.
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In a touching and heartening YouTube video, Doctor Who legend Tom Baker commemorated his final episode as the Fourth Doctor, "Logopolis."
What economics does is to convert open systems into closed systems by excluding ‘moves’ which would render the system unstable. Dictators ‘freeze the frame’ by order: economists do it by ‘modelling.’ They model the world as a giant computer network in which every possible move has been programmed, and anything outside the frame excluded by […]
You’ve Always Been This Way is a column written by Taylor Harris, a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman and 1980s preschool dropout, who identifies every moment from her past that filled her with shame, and mutters, “Yep, that tracks. I see it all now.”
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Dear Little T,
I’ve wanted to meet you again, here, between words. To show up gently, shapeshift into a vanilla-scented presence who could slow the jolt-thump of your heart, a cool pillow you could run your thumb across as you drift off. It’s okay to close your eyes; I promise you won’t wake up to find people pointing and laughing or the world permanently tipped on its side. And I won’t let anyone leave you behind.
The best defense is to write humanly.
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Jazz pushes boundaries. It has ambiguity. It makes people think. That’s why they hate it. And if you’re a jazz musician, this could be an issue. You never know when someone will have heard too many notes and become violent. Luckily, there’s a lot you can do to protect yourself.
Jazz Music
This is your first line of defense. Your music should do a good enough job of keeping would-be listeners/attackers away. No one goes looking for jazz on purpose. But you might find yourself playing jazz in a public space, like a bar or some awful gazebo. When you surprise someone with jazz, they can become angry. Your free-playing will confuse them. Their search for a coherent melody will drive them into a violent psychosis, or what musicologists call a “jazz-chosis.” But don’t soil your slacks yet. Your music isn’t your only weapon.
. ‘Rigorous’ and ‘precise’ economic models cannot be considered anything else than unsubstantiated conjectures as long as they aren’t supported by evidence from outside the theory or model. To my knowledge, no in any way decisive empirical evidence has been presented. No matter how precise and rigorous the analysis, and no matter how hard one […]
Nigel Farage's party is spreading climate change denial, while blocking any localised action to deal with the threat, an academic analysis of Reform councils has found
The biologist Victoria Foe discovered a timing device in ‘junk’ DNA that could unlock the evolution of complex life
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A psychologist tried to downgrade my diagnosis. My life – and the science – prove how wrong he was
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‘We live in an attention economy…with the attention I can get more fame and monetise,’ says 24-year-old Harrison Sullivan (known as HSTikkyTokky online) early on in Louis Theroux’s latest Netflix documentary, Inside The Manosphere, which explores the growing network of ultra-masculine online content creators. ‘I coach boys how to be fucking boys. How to make […]
Controversial polling promoted by the Tony Blair Institute, and criticised by academics, helped make the case for 'regime change' in Tehran
“Twenty one and nothing”: this was one of the reproaches that was directed at management at the Curtin University as staff held a 24 hour strike on Monday.
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“Gregg Phillips, President Trump’s appointee overseeing disaster response, insists he was once teleported from his home to a Georgia Waffle House.”
—Yahoo News
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Pete Hegseth: Frat party to a bathroom floor
Stephen Miller: Transylvania to Washington, DC
Tulsi Gabbard: Russia to the Fulton County Election Office
Linda McMahon: Friday Night Smackdown to your child’s public school classroom
Greg Bovino: 1942 Germany to present-day America
JD Vance: His marital bed to a Raymour & Flanigan
Sean Duffy: Real World/Road Rules Challenge set to the Department of Transportation—and very likely back again
Markwayne Mullin: Anger management class to Rand Paul’s front yard
Pam Bondi: Epstein Island to the document-shredding room
Russell Vought: Hell to Earth
Dass die Kritische Theorie, nicht irgendeine, sondern die in Frankfurt entstandene, nur im ständigen Hin und Her zwischen Kant und Hegel fortzuführen sei, wussten beide vom ersten Moment ihrer Begegnung an; ihr Pakt lag darin begründet, dass sie sich über die Zentralstellung dieser philosophischen Konstellation einig waren. Beide teilten von Beginn an auch die Überzeugung, […]
The White House has been caught lifting its Iran war talking points word-for-word from a powerful pro-Israel think tank.
Oh my god, hi! I’m thrilled to see you here, especially so soon after I sent you the link to my short story draft. If you’re just taking a peek, no worries. I don’t expect any notes right away.
But I am going to start a timer to see how long you linger here, not-so-subtly disguised as Anonymous Kraken. The length of your stay reveals the extent of my draft’s power to pull the reader in. So even before you’ve given me any notes, you’re already saving me from downward spiraling into self-doubt. Thank you!
Oh dang, you left after just twelve seconds.
That’s okay. Maybe you had to go because your cat started a kitchen fire. Or maybe you clicked the link by accident and were like, “Whoops, this definitely isn’t the URL to activate my twenty dollars in Kohl’s cash.” Or maybe you opened the doc and saw that it’s yet ANOTHER tale about a girl and a horse that everyone underestimated, and you couldn’t X out of the tab fast enough. Just kidding—I know not everything is about me and my silly writing project.
Recap of Drupal 12 release windows
Our release schedule includes three potential release dates for Drupal 12.0.0, depending on when critical requirements are completed:
It turns out that even ChatGPT has a more stringent approach to accuracy than the former professor, Matt Goodwin, reports Mic Wright
They try to explain business cycles solely as problems of information, such as asymmetries and imperfections in the information agents have. Those assumptions are just as arbitrary as the institutional rigidities and inertia they find objectionable in other theories of business fluctuations … I try to point out how incapable the new equilibrium business cycles […]
There’s something uniquely demoralizing about editing and editing and editing a book manuscript. The words all start to blur together and you start thinking that every sentence is crap, no one will ever want to read this, why bother completing the book. I was definitely in this state. And then… my publisher sent me the […]
As many of you know, something really important is happening, and it’s critical that we all stay informed. There’s a reality star/influencer whose name includes the words Paul, Taylor, and Frankie in an order that is both confusing and ultimately irrelevant. What’s important is that she did some stuff, and now all hell is breaking loose.
You’re probably thinking: “I don’t care,” or “There are more important things happening,” or “This is an intentional distraction orchestrated by our algorithmic AI overlords.”
Maybe it does feel like I’m being fed this content against my will, but that’s only because I’m paying attention to what’s happening in the world. And sure, those things are really important, but we also invade other countries all the time now. Keep up. Maybe we’ll have midterm elections, maybe not. Who knows?
But this stuff with the Mormon wives? It’s happening right now, and it’s a doozy.