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Schedule of Speakers for the 2024 Republican National Convention

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Sat, 13/07/2024 - 03:00

Monday, July 15

9:00 p.m.
The Banshees of the Bottomless Abyss wail the national anthem.

9:05 p.m.
Axuloth, Slayer of Mortals, lays out his plan to stop the Great Replacement.

9:20 p.m.
Arizona Senate candidate and election truther Kari Lake explains that Joe Biden couldn’t have won Wisconsin in 2020 because “Wisconsin” isn’t a real place.

9:40 p.m.
The Goblins of Mount Agony on why student loan forgiveness is unfair to goblins who have already paid their blood debts to their chieftains.

10:10 p.m.
Marjorie Taylor Greene uses phrenology to prove that Dr. Anthony Fauci is secretly Jewish.

10:30 p.m.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on how to end political corruption by legalizing it.

10:50 p.m.
Keynote speech by ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods entitled “Climate Change Will Kill Millions of Predominantly Low-Income People by 2050. But There Are Downsides Too.”

Does Anyone Care About The Great Economic Numbers?

https://digbysblog.net/2024/07/12/does-anyone-care-about-the-great-economic-num…
Created
Sat, 13/07/2024 - 02:00
Well, Joe Biden does, but who cares what he says, right? President Joe Biden held an hour long press conference last night and answered a range of questions about his age, his competence, his stamina, his health and his future. He also delivered several incisive disquisitions on foreign policy that Donald Trump’s staff would have to use a very large coloring book and possibly a puppet show to explain to him. Not that that would work. He’d probably storm out of the meeting long before they got to the part about China and Russia, yelling something about love letters and being a boss. The media didn’t seem all that impressed, judging his performance to only be fair to middling and virtually ignoring the substance of what he had to say. He offered a serious overview of America and its relationship to its allies and adversaries and made some news about Israel, calling for the war to end. But everyone was more interested in Biden’s theatrical performance and how he answered questions about whether he plans to quit so any talk of his actual policies and worldview are apparently irrelevant.

Summer

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Created
Sat, 13/07/2024 - 01:57
Leave the city, go out to our summer residence in the Karlskrona archipelago, open the doors to the terrace, sink into the recliner with a cup of coffee, and just enjoy these wonderful tones flowing from my old Thorens record player…

Open source Drupal Starshot slide deck with recording is now available

https://www.drupal.org/about/starshot/blog/open-source-drupal-starshot-slide-de…
Created
Sat, 13/07/2024 - 00:33

First slides of the Drupal Starshot introduction slide deck

Lauri Timmanee and myself presented a keynote on Drupal Starshot at Drupal Developer Days 2024 two weeks ago in Burgas, Bulgaria. We got requests from many people that more content on Starshot would be great, so we decided to open source our slide deck! The organizers just published the video recording as well, so while we did not put in speaker notes to these slides, you can get the details from the recording.

Feel free to make a copy of the slides and present this at your company, meetup, Drupal 11 launch party, and so on!

Check out the Drupal Starshot marketing page for further marketing resources, logos and backgrounds.

Beyond Parody

https://digbysblog.net/2024/07/12/beyond-parody/
Created
Sat, 13/07/2024 - 00:30
No wonder Trump worries everyone is laughing at us Today is Day 2 of Netroots Nation-Baltimore. ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● For The Win, 5th Edition is ready for download. Request a copy of my free countywide GOTV planning guide at ForTheWin.us.

Forecast accuracy and efficiency at the Bank of England – and how forecast errors can be leveraged to do better

https://bankunderground.co.uk/2024/07/12/forecast-accuracy-and-efficiency-at-th…
Created
Fri, 12/07/2024 - 23:00
Derrick Kanngiesser and Tim Willems This post describes a systematic way for central banks to employ past forecasts (and associated errors) with the aim of learning more about the structure and functioning of the economy, ultimately to enable a better setting of monetary policy going forward. Results suggest that the Monetary Policy Committee’s (MPC’s) inflation … Continue reading Forecast accuracy and efficiency at the Bank of England – and how forecast errors can be leveraged to do better →

Announcing the Drupal Starshot Advisory Council

https://www.drupal.org/about/starshot/blog/announcing-the-drupal-starshot-advis…
Created
Fri, 12/07/2024 - 22:27

A group of people in a futuristic setting having a meeting in an open forum with a space background.

I'm excited to announce the formation of the Drupal Starshot Advisory Council. When I announced Starshot's Leadership Team, I explained that we are innovating on the leadership model by adding a team of advisors. This council will provide strategic input and feedback to help ensure Drupal Starshot meets the needs of key stakeholders and end-users.

The Drupal Starshot initiative represents an ambitious effort to expand Drupal's reach and impact. To guide this effort, we've established a diverse Advisory Council that includes members of the Drupal Starshot project team, Drupal Association staff and Board of Directors, representatives from Drupal Certified Partners, Drupal Core Committers, and last but not least, individuals representing the target end-users for Drupal Starshot. This ensures a wide range of perspectives and expertise to inform the project's direction and decision-making.

What France and America Know About Each Other

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/what-france-and-america-know-about-each-oth…
Created
Fri, 12/07/2024 - 22:00

They’re arrogant.

They don’t like us very much.

It’s more or less okay to apply preconceived blanket statements to this country.

They think they’re cooler than we are.

Friends greet each other with a gesture that’s weirdly intimate.

More sex happening over there.

More dynamic food scene.

They have a cheese that’s somehow both liquid and solid at the same time.

Their economic system and overall societal structure are on the verge of a full collapse, and we’ve been waiting for a while now to say we told you so.

Unaware their cultural approach to drinking is referred to as “alcoholism.”

Unaware their cultural approach to race relations is referred to as “racism.”

Unaware that Emily in Paris is making fun of them.

Responsible for making the red beret popular.

Responsible for Timothée Chalamet.

Also, André the Giant.

Should take back Pepé le Pew.

They mispronounce—in a way that feels deliberately hysterical—the words charcuterie and Wi-Fi.

Judith Butler — the art of branding fashionable mumbo jumbo

https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2024/07/12/judith-butler-the-art-of-branding-fa…
Created
Fri, 12/07/2024 - 21:56
. Judith Butler’s theory of identity rests on the idea that there is nothing between the Scylla of the metaphysical ‘modernist’ subject and the Charybdis of the totally deconstructed identity where the subject becomes nothing but a fictitious fantasy. But this can’t be right. The social constructivist anti-essentialism is unsatisfactory and ends up in an […]