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There are numerous reasons why my wife and I decided to have kids, like learning what it means to be parents, and providing an idyllic childhood that we lacked ourselves. But none mattered as much as procreating so we could blow off our single friends, particularly Jeff.

When you bring a child into this world, it lets you experience the joy of pushing out friendships from that same world. There is no better excuse to gradually recede from the guy who will never get his shit together. I have a child to care for, so no, Jeff, I can’t call you back, or come to the bar, or hear about the used-bookstore girl who dumped you. I must feed and clothe and bathe a helpless human life, and no longer have the time to do any of that for you.

New polling suggests that voters do not want the President to further involve the US in the Middle East conflict

Thousands of angry Brisbane construction workers walked off the job on Thursday morning, assembling outside the union’s office, where they voted for a 48-hour strike.

The post Brisbane CFMEU members stop work in defiance after High Court upholds Administration first appeared on Solidarity Online.

Hi CT readers, I’m publishing this open letter here so there’s a public record of the letter I’ve co-written and signed about what looks, walks and talks like a good old-fashioned Brussels stitch-up aimed at weakening the EU organisation that oversees data protection in EU institutions. Thank you, Maria (Comments welcome, as with any other […]

With brain swaps and death rays, a little-known French sci-fi genre explored science’s dark possibilities a century ago

- by Fleur Hopkins-Loféron

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Taylor Lorenz and Akela Lacy on how bots, influencers, and political actors distort real-world violence before facts emerge.

The post The Disinformation Machine After a Murder appeared first on The Intercept.

Sci-fi master Adrian Tchaikovsky on evolution, other minds, and the politics of science

The post What We Misunderstand About Robots appeared first on Nautilus.

But why?

The post Dude, You Stink appeared first on Nautilus.

Road ecology meets community science

The post What If Every Roadkill Had a Memorial? appeared first on Nautilus.

A new stage version of the award-winning novel at London's Almeida Theatre in October is the most likely chance of this seminal work finding a new generation of fans, writes Tim Walker

Lawmakers quietly added a line that effectively subsidizes Wall Street buying up companies, slashing wages, closing factories, and firing workers.

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Several months ago I wrote two essays on Russian grand strategy. (My apologies on never completing the nuclear one, an extremely necessary but far too grim subject for my taste.) In that series of essays I made a few assertions I want to bring to your attention again in a more contemporary context. First, that the result of wars tend to confirm strengths of the coalition arrayed against the main combatants before the war even started. This is, in fact, not an assertion, but an iron law of warfare that still exists in chimpanzee warfare. See Strategy: a history, chapter one, by Freedman if you disagree.

Second, that big global dustups tend to run in about 100 year cycles these days.

So, take a look around–got a big hot war in the Ukraine slightly analogous to the Sino-Japanese war of the 1930s. Next, you got weird, unresolved shenanigans in the Middle East that have a weird reverse-appeasement type feal.

It’s back. Season 3 of the – The Smith Family and their Adventures with Money – produced by MMTed begins today (June 20, 2025) and will run for the next 12 months, with episodes updated every month. The recession has deepened and the government is in chaos, with its chief advisor Professor Raul Noitawl insisting…

Pro-natalism (the idea that people, or rather, women, should have more babies than they choose to do at present) has become an established orthodoxy,[1]. The central claim is that, unless something changes soon, human populations both global and national, are going to decline rapidly, with a lot of negative consequences. This is simply not true, […]

Some Democrats are fighting to stop war with Iran, but party leaders are silently acquiescing or, worse, supporting an attack.

The post How Democratic Party Leaders Quietly Support Trump’s March to War With Iran appeared first on The Intercept.

Writer Matt Fitton offered some new details on Big Finish's Doctor Who audio dramas, featuring the return of Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill.

Israel uses hospitals as human shields for their military targets, which is what they claimed Hamas did.

#Soroka Hospital is located between two major Israeli military sites: the IDF’s main intelligence headquarters and a central command facility, both of which are situated in the Gav-Yam Technology Park. These installations reportedly serve as critical hubs for Israel’s cyber operations, digital command systems, and military intelligence infrastructure (including IDF C4I and C4ISR systems). While the hospital sustained shockwave damage from nearby blasts, it was not directly hit, Iranian reports emphasize.

New research finds that disproportionate coverage of the relatively low numbers crossing the English channel is turning British people against all incomers