This choir’s performances don’t elicit applause, but peaceful silence: they sing lullabies to comfort and hold the dying
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When is a typically celebrated practice – working out – more like an addiction? Researchers have found some patterns
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The newly-elected Wakefield councillor repeatedly shared extreme and racist content, and backed multiple far-right figures
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Are you free if you need a job? For most people lack of a job means homelessness (indeed many homeless have jobs, that’s how far things have sunk) and you’ll go hungry, and almost certainly wind up dead sooner than otherwise. This was well understood by the people who created capitalism. The central requirement of […]
Like many others, I left the United States because I wanted to get away from Trumpʼs America. But now that my only entertainment opportunities involve two men riding neon glow-in-the-dark motorcycles inside an enormous orb, I must ask myself if I made the right decision. It wasn’t easy to move. But I consider myself an open person and felt compelled to leave a place that was becoming increasingly intolerant and closed off. Little did I know that this openness would bring me to this regional theater, with this man, whose thighs are covered with henna tattoos, and who’s rocking a loincloth that’s not really a diaper but also not quite a thong. My friends back home say that they’re jealous of me. I understand why—they’re still there, which means they see terrible news every day. But it also means they’re not seeing this woman in a gold bikini pick up bamboo sticks with her toes and construct a tower for the peacocks. The Public Employees’ Retirement System of Mississippi has accused the global investment fund Apollo of downplaying its ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
We are proud to share that the Drupal Association has been awarded a grant from the Alpha-Omega Project, a project of The Linux Foundation, which seeks to help open source projects identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities. As AI-generated commits and AI-driven security threats become the norm, open-source ecosystems must evolve rapidly. This funding directly strengthens the already mature Drupal Security Team, ensuring our core ecosystem is hardened against the modern, AI-age vulnerabilities.
It is widely believed (by me, just now) that William Shakespeare revised his plays constantly, fueled by ambition, self-doubt, and whatever they drank instead of coffee back then. Based on that and vibes alone, here is what he probably thought each time he tweaked the same scene again. 1. Ah! A fresh draft. This one shall be perfect and require no further changes. 2. What if the line were slightly sadder? 3. What if it were also a little funny? 4. Can something be tragic and funny? I shall invent this. 5. “To be, or not to be”—hmm. Feels wordy. Perhaps just “To be”? 6. No, no, no. Put the rest back. It was good. It was fine. 7. Actually, what if he says it while holding a skull? 8. Where would he get the skull? 9. I will simply give him one. The audience will not question it. 10. I am a genius. 11. Wait. What if the skull has a name? 12. Everyone loves it when objects have names. 13. Yorick. Yes. That feels right. 14. I should write that down. 15. I did not write that down. 16. Back to the top. “To be, or not to be”—still excellent. - - - McSweeney’s and Broadway Video present the official over-six-hundred-page comprehensive companion book to IFC’s Documentary Now!, made with the assistance of series directors Rhys Thomas and Alex Buono and including new writing by Seth Meyers, a foreword by Pulitzer Prize–finalist Matt Zoller Seitz, the complete sheet music for John Mulaney and Eli Bolin’s Co-op: The Musical, and much more. The book is out today, and to celebrate, we’re sharing an excerpt featuring the show’s very first host, the legendary Burt Lancaster. As the tenth anniversary of Brexit approaches, the debate about whether to rejoin the EU is dominating the Labour leadership race, writes Chris Grey
I knew I was committing a small social crime. But we hadn’t truly been friends for a long time - by David Sleeth-Keppler The sharp rise in inflation following the COVID-19 pandemic has renewed interest in how firms adjust prices after large economic shocks and the implications for modelling inflation and setting monetary policy. Using a large dataset of web-scraped Australian retail prices, we document an increase in the frequency of price changes in 2022 and 2023, alongside strong goods price inflation. We incorporate these microdata-based estimates of price-setting frequency into the Reserve Bank of Australia's dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to assess their macroeconomic implications. We find that failing to account for higher rates of price adjustment during the high-inflation period leads to inflation forecasts that are up to 1.2 percentage points too low, even when the underlying shocks are known. The increase in the frequency of price resets also steepens the Phillips curve, reducing the policy trade-off between inflation and output. Given knowledge of this change in price-setting behaviour, a hypothetical central bank with unchanged preferences would tend to raise interest rates more aggressively than in a scenario where price rigidity was stable.
Join us THURSDAY, May 21 at 1pm ET / 10am PT, for our regularly scheduled call to chat about all things Drupal and nonprofits. (Convert to your local time zone.) We don't have anything specific on the agenda this month, so we'll have plenty of time to discuss anything that's on our minds at the intersection of Drupal and nonprofits. Got something specific you want to talk about? Feel free to share ahead of time in our collaborative Google document at https://nten.org/drupal/notes! All nonprofit Drupal devs and users, regardless of experience level, are always welcome on this call. This free call is sponsored by NTEN.org and open to everyone. "The phrase ‘tax the rich’ can be ‘just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs,’ according to the New York City billionaire Steve Roth, who said that the top 1 percent should be ‘praised and thanked.’” — The Guardian - - - First they came for the pieds-à-terre, which they said were driving up the cost of housing. And I did not speak out. Because my pied-à-terre was in Greenwich, Connecticut, not Greenwich Village. Then they came for the capital gains, which they said should be taxed as income. And I did not speak out. Because I had all of my company stock in a tax-sheltered backdoor Roth. Then they came for the bad landlords, who they said were ripping off tenants. And I did not speak out. Because I was so wealthy I didn’t even bother renting out any of my investment properties. Then they came for the 1031 exchanges, which they said were an unfair tax loophole the wealthy use to buy fancier vacation homes. Why are rightwingers being given a free pass on antisemitism? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 14th May 2026 The media’s message appears to have cut through. At the crucial rally against antisemitism in London on Sunday, Zack Polanski, the Jewish leader of the Green party of England and Wales, was not invited to […]
Local news editor in Ipswich says Reform party chair instructed his councillors to shut out the press in favour of only speaking to the right-wing news channel
Public debt is normally nothing to fear, especially if it is financed within the country itself (but even foreign loans can be beneficent for the economy if invested in the right way). Some members of society hold bonds and earn interest on them, while others pay taxes that ultimately pay the interest on the debt. […]
Craig Kitts, who says he is fighting to 'protect our women and children' from migrants, admitted to assault by beating
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights, humanitarian, economic, and constitutional crises, we felt it critical to make an inventory of this new round of horrors. This list will be updated monthly between now and the end of Donald Trump’s second term. Posts uncovered by Byline Times show newly-elected Reform UK Councillor Ken Tranter comparing Muslims to cockroaches, who would "take over" the country
These artists argue we shouldn’t shy away from AI – instead, we need to help shape its future with our human creativity - Video by the Museum of Modern Art | ||
