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Sat, 20/09/2025 - 02:36

My beloved veterinarian’s office apparently moved to a new office location without informing customers. They also changed phone systems. The new phone system doesn’t work, and they didn’t leave a forwarding message on the old phone system. You call, leave a message, never hear back, and never learn what’s become of the business. Our oldest […]

The post Everybody’s lost it, Part I appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.

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Fri, 19/09/2025 - 23:30

The president describes a cartoonish fantasy of a George Soros-backed criminal network. If only the left were that good at collective defense.

The post Trump’s Idea of the Criminal Left Is a Fiction. A Coordinated Defense Against His Fascism Shouldn’t Be. appeared first on The Intercept.

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Fri, 19/09/2025 - 22:00

With apologies to Three Dog Night.

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In the wake of recent events, we feel it’s time to speak up. We’ve heard your calls for a statement on the subject of Jeremiah, a bullfrog we’ve long referred to as our friend. Your comments, your direct messages, and your anthrax threats have all prompted us to take action.

Last week, Jeremiah the Bullfrog was convicted of severely harmful crimes and was sentenced to life in prison. Please believe us when we tell you that we were as shocked as you to learn of what could at best be described as a lapse in judgment, and at worst as a psychotic and unfrogivable series of misdeeds.

We initially kept our silence to keep from shifting the spotlight away from the victims and to allow justice to run its course. Now that the trial has ended in a conviction, we feel it’s time to share a truth that has troubled us for a long time:

Jeremiah was, in fact, a mere acquaintance.

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Fri, 19/09/2025 - 20:36
~by Sean Paul Kelley In the aftermath of the 1905 Russo-Japanese War, US president Teddy Roosevelt brought together negotiators from Russia and Japan to hammer out a peace. This was the first time the US was ever seen as an ‘honest broker’ in international relations. In 1919 President Wilson sailed to Paris with his 14 […]
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Fri, 19/09/2025 - 18:00
Utkarsh Somaiya, Caspar Siegert and Benjamin Kingsmore Climate change creates material economic and financial risks which central banks need to understand to ensure monetary and financial stability. Their interest in climate change has therefore skyrocketed, with almost one third of central bank speeches in 2023 referencing climate change. Central banks are typically responsible for ensuring … Continue reading The right tools for the job? How effectively can central banks support the transition to net zero?
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Fri, 19/09/2025 - 16:29
The purported strength of New Classical macroeconomics lies in its firm anchorage in preference-based microeconomics, particularly the decisions made by inter-temporal utility-maximising, ‘forward-looking’ individuals. To some, however, this strength has come at too high a price. The quasi-religious insistence that macroeconomics must have microfoundations — without providing ontological or epistemological justification for this requirement — […]
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Fri, 19/09/2025 - 09:35

“President Trump said networks giving him negative coverage may deserve to have their licenses revoked, ramping up threats administration officials have made in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing.”Axios

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I really like free speech. I love it, some might say. I love how I get to say anything I want and it’s totally fine, no problem. I don’t like when you do that though. I only like when I do it, or when people do it in a way I told them to do it. That’s when I really like free speech. In fact, I like free speech so much that I’ve decided it’s just mine now—not yours.

I like so many things about free speech. I like that my friends on TV can say they want to kill homeless people and then keep showing up for work like nothing happened.