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“Kash Patel has filed a defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic, accusing the magazine and its reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick of defamation over an article that alleged the FBI director… has a habit of ‘excessive drinking and unexplained absences,’ among other recurring behavioral patterns.” — Politico
The fake news media is once again smearing a hard-working member of our administration. The recent hit piece accusing FBI Director Kash Patel of excessive drinking is (much like the Epstein files hoax) a pathetic attempt to distract Americans from the greatest period of economic growth in our country’s history. If you haven’t noticed how cheap everything is and how much money everyone has now, then congratulations—you’ve fallen for the lying press’s elaborate ruse.
All of the accusations of Patel’s binging have perfectly logical explanations:
1. Install Baby Gates
Baby gates are great for keeping babies out of places you don’t want them to go, like inside your home. String several gates together with zip ties to form a barrier around the perimeter of your property. Most babies aren’t smart enough to figure out how to open the gates, and neither are you, but you’re probably tall enough to step over.
2. Affix Safety Latches to Lower Cabinets
Babies love opening cabinets to rifle through your cookware, cleaning supplies, and the collection of half-used batteries you keep in your junk drawer. If word gets out that you’re the kind of household that keeps things securely locked away, they won’t bother swinging by.
In Trump’s strategy of feigning madness to get what he wants, there is no longer any border between pretense and actual irrationality.
The post ‘The Right Amount of Crazy’ appeared first on The New York Review of Books.

Sleep trackers have become part of the sleepmaxxing craze, but as a researcher I’ve seen they can do more harm than good
- by Alice Gregory

Where centralised societies excel at extraction, African fractal systems allow for circulation, reciprocity and return
- by Likam Kyanzaire
I understand the university has entered into a partnership with Cyberdyne Systems. What does this mean exactly?
Thanks to the support of visionary venture capitalists working tirelessly to usher in an age of equality and prosperity, Cyberdyne is building Skynet, a neural network on the brink of achieving something tech billionaires could hitherto only dream of: self-awareness.
How will this contribute to student success?
With a free Skynet Edu account, students can gain the career-readiness needed to navigate an exciting future in which they will be hunted by a remorseless, nuclear-armed superintelligence seeking to annihilate the human race—which will later be revealed to be Skynet itself.
Maybe I’m special. Or unlucky. But things that supposedly work intuitively for most users tend to fail spectacularly for me. After mastering academia and enjoying some early success in journalism, advertising, and music composition and production, I poured myself into web design in early 1995, understood it in a way most designers didn’t, and enjoyed […]
The post My UX Superpower: Nothing Works! appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.
Original article posted by Christoph Breidert on 1xINTERNET website
Over a decade ago, I co-founded 1xINTERNET on the conviction that Drupal was the best platform for ambitious web applications. That bet paid off. But recently, as AI began disrupting our industry, I found myself facing an unfamiliar feeling: uncertainty. For the first time in my career, the path forward wasn't entirely clear.
If you are a decision-maker navigating this shift, you likely feel the same way. We are all trying to figure out how to leverage AI's huge potential without compromising enterprise security, compliance, or content quality.
The good news is that while the broader AI landscape remains turbulent, the direction for content management systems is becoming clear.
- Christoph Breidert
The BBC is a key employer and a major creator of arts and entertainment, but neither role appears to matter yet in the ongoing review of its charter. That charter — the constitutional basis for the corporation, setting out its public purpose and governance — is now under review, with the government’s Green Paper published […]
The time I said, “Hey buddy,” to my wife, and my daughter responded, “She is NOT a buddy.”
The time on vacation when she said, “We are going to dinner AGAIN? We are going to ANOTHER restaurant?”
The time she was whimpering and her mom asked her if she was okay and she said, “Yes, I okay. I just freaking out.”
The time she asked me what I was doing, and I said I was stretching my muscles, and she responded, “You don’t have any muscles. I have BIG muscles. YOU have elbows.”
The time she said, “Can I ask you a question? Do you want to be good or do you want to be what the heck?”
The time she named her new doll Baby Annie the Bear Hunter, and I realized I would never name anything that perfectly at my marketing job. (See also: the time she made me a pretend cocktail called “Crash Fart.”)
The time I told her, “I love you so much,” and she said, “Not me,” and I went, “Oh?” and she responded, “I love my mom.”
The time she handed me a rock and said, “No, eat it!”

AI can take over many writing tasks. But there is something irreplaceable about a text with an author standing behind it
- by James O’Sullivan
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