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When I saw SPK blogging here, I couldn’t resist the Auld Lang Syne and asked Ian for permission to post sometimes. I wrote for the Agonist in the 2000s.

I’ve followed Whitney Webb since she wrote for MintPress News and find her to be an extremely informative and critical voice, especially about the nexus of tech and finance. Her work frequently frightens me and if I were a Titan of Silicon Valley I would certainly want her silenced.

Her post on Twitter earlier this week caught my eye because it revealed a sort of fuckery that was new to me:

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For a clear path, follow the birds.

The post How to Solve the Drone Traffic Problem appeared first on Nautilus.

Welcome to motherhood. It’s the hardest job on earth but also FUN and not hard. It’s the longest, shortest time. It’s organic but also Doritos. The rules are simple, not contradictory, but also not rules, because we are play-based.

1. You must never be boring, but also don’t be fun, or else they won’t respect you as a parent.

2. You must curate a schedule of sports, academics, and whimsy, but don’t curate it so it will be child-led.

3. Infants must learn to swim with you holding them, or they could drown in a bucket, but also not rely on you to swim.

4. Cribs should contain one twenty-thread count sheet and be free of comfort items in a way only monastic monks could understand, but also make it cozy.

5. You must sleep-train your baby before the four-month regression, the six-month regression, and learning leaps.But also don’t pressure them or they will have abandonment issues and form a goth band.

6. You must create a curriculum of brain-stimulating activities—a box of old-timey keys, brick bits from a pueblo in New Mexico, or rain in a jar.But also don’t focus on academics.

“The suspensions happened immediately and it was without any due process.”

The post Student Protesters Were Suspended With No Chance to Defend Themselves. Will Courts Return Them to Campus? appeared first on The Intercept.

Managing a massive concert tour requires keeping a lot of balls in the air, but as we were pulling into our next stop for P!nk’s world tour, I couldn’t help but feel like I was forgetting something. As we were preparing to rock Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena for a record-setting two straight nights, it suddenly hit me. Where was P!nk? “Has anybody here seen P!nk?” I shouted out to the crew assembling our stage, but alas, no luck. As we all frantically tried to call her phone to no avail, it began to dawn on me. Oh my god, we forgot P!nk. Not only have we left her behind at our last venue, but we forgot to let the pop star down from her aerial harness.

Before entering government, Labour’s Jonny Reynolds said he would reverse the Conservatives’ ‘quantity-over-quality’ approach to trade deals. But the copy-paste list of trade talks the now-Business and Trade Secretary has announced threatens to dash hopes of a new era. The causal line the new government has drawn between negotiating Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with ‘the […]

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As a U.S. senator, Harris pushed criminal justice reforms. Will she run on her ideas — or run away from them?

The post Kamala Harris Wants to Distinguish Herself From Joe Biden. Criminal Justice Is a Place to Start. appeared first on The Intercept.