It probably shouldn’t worry us if some pocket of the population saw a decline in IQ as things like education and diet affect IQ and these factors can vary from one group or time to another. But according to this new study it doesn’t appear to be some small segment of the population whose IQ […]
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Joel Suss: What is puzzling is the idea that inequality is rising and leading to discontent, but this discontent is being channelled into what you would call the nationalist parties like Trump, Farage, [Marine] Le Pen, et cetera, and not the parties which are typically and historically associated with addressing inequality [through redistribution and the […]
On 9 December 2025, leaders from across the globe will meet in Paris for the Drupal AI Summit, hosted within the Future of Software Technologies (FOST) conference, the world’s largest federated technology event.
The summit brings together engineers, architects, product leaders, and marketers who are putting AI to use in real systems. It explores what happens when AI meets the open-source values that built Drupal: transparency, community, and long-term thinking.
Within FOST, the Drupal AI track will host twelve focused sessions led by leaders in Drupal AI. These sessions will share lessons from real projects and outline the steps toward making Drupal the most AI-enabled open-source CMS.
The time? High summer. The place? Binghamton, New York. My husband and I were there for a two-week stint, and though we weren’t native to the place, we were growing restless. Our Airbnb seemed haunted, with its framed photos of people that looked like ghosts and a decorating motif that could best be described as violently Christian. And we—a Jew, a Buddhist, and a corgi who answered to neither man nor God—longed to escape. But where?
Time and again, our answer to this question was Wegman’s.
The First Grocery Run for an out-of-towner is always overwhelming; there are basics to acquire, meals to plan, and (in our case) mustard packets to swipe from the sit-down café area to hoard for midweek sandwich-making emergencies. Amid this chaos, I espied a logic-defying new popcorn strain from a familiar brand. But the First Grocery Run is no time to get fancy. Watermelon hibiscus-flavored anything cannot be indulged in when one is in survival mode.
Arno Hantzsche and Harriet Jeanes Houses account for the largest share of total assets held by the UK household sector. Households’ spending and saving decisions depend in part on the price of these assets. What causes house prices to move can therefore have important consequences for macroeconomic policy and financial stability. Our house price model … Continue reading The keys to house price growth
Senators, please get OUT of my uterus so my friend Brynn, who is almost finished with nursing school, can get in there STAT. My body doesn’t need to produce a child just because it can. Focus on other ways to ruin the country, and let Brynn and the internet give me Life of a Showgirl takes while deciding if I inhaled enough Drano to warrant an urgent-care run.
Can you jerks do all that? No. So leave me, the internet, and Brynn to our work.
I am a grown woman, and I reserve the right to feel anything, google it for several hours, send Brynn a text that says “lol help,” and receive the gold standard of compassionate medical advice. Brynn just took a final on this sort of patient care. Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe has never taken a final because he did not go to college.
Let’s lay out the big picture for LLM-style AI. It is a statistical prediction of what should be the next word or symbol. That is why it required so much data to train and why, even if we had the tech, we couldn’t have created it 20 years ago: There wasn’t enough data in digital […]
On October 16th, Lewisham’s Labour-led council granted planning permission to begin the redevelopment of Lewisham Shopping Centre, marking a decisive shift for the borough’s future. Lewisham has been undergoing gentrification since the turn of the millennium. Slowly but surely, warehouses and housing estates around Deptford, New Cross, Brockley, and Lewisham Central have been closed, demolished […]
Councillor in flagship Reform council failed to name his firm on his register of interests, or respond to questions about it from his constituent, prompting a formal complaint
A filmmaker takes a leap of faith when he decides to risk ridicule and make a serious film about UFO sightings
- Directed by Matthew Salton
How the photographer Justine Kurland reframes utopia in the radical freedom of teenage girls, women and outsider communities
- by Aeon Video
The most vehement and damaging charges of ‘greed’ get directed at precisely those who are being stripped of everything
- by David Keen
Slavery in Latin America, on a huge scale, was different from that in the United States. Why don’t we know this history?
- by Ana Lucia Araujo
The United States is mobilising the largest military build-up in the Caribbean in decades. As I write, at least 10,000 US soldiers — on board ten warships — are patrolling the southern Caribbean coast. That includes a nuclear submarine, several destroyers, and a missile cruiser. Already, at least seven small boats — accused of transporting […]
Iulia Bucur and Ed Hill Modern language models – think OpenAI’s GPTs, Google’s Gemini or DeepSeek – are powerful tools: but how can we use them in economic policymaking? Economic analysis often relies on decompositions to understand macroeconomic data and inform counterfactuals. But these decompositions are typically obtained from numerical data or macroeconomic models and … Continue reading All shocks are different: insights from sentiment and topic analysis using LLMs
The judge blocked a ban on Super PACs in Maine — but legal activists discovered a kill switch inside the ruling.
David Lockwood, an Australian academic, has written a history of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) from 1930-48. While it is a short work—173 pages—it is invaluable for both the Malaysian and Australia Left.
The post Uncovering Malaysia’s communist history first appeared on Solidarity Online.
For the last two months, the Australian labour market has gone backwards. The deterioration seems to have stabilised in October. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the latest labour force data today (November 13, 2025) – Labour Force, Australia – for October 2025, which reveals a slight drop in official unemployment and underemployment and…
Preparation time: 15 minutesCooking time: 50 minutesTo serve: 4 You will need:1 small onion1 lb. ripe tomatoes1 small stick celery3 tablespoons olive oil1-2 cloves garlic, peeledseveral sprigs parsleysalt and pepper4 small or 2 medium-sized red mullet*chopped fresh parsley *Other fish such as mackerel, grey mullet, or even cutlets or fillets of white fish can be […]
Documents released by a federal court provide new and disturbing details of Trump associates’ attempt to orchestrate a coup against a government they clearly did not understand. This is an unprecedented look at the players and their plots – from terrorism to false flags – that may inform the looming US military assault on Venezuela. The man the government blames for it all, Jordan Goudreau, provided evidence to The Grayzone that: He signed a $221 million contract with Venezuela’s Juan […]
The post White House insiders knew of 2020 Venezuela coup in advance, files show first appeared on The Grayzone.
The post White House insiders knew of 2020 Venezuela coup in advance, files show appeared first on The Grayzone.
People on food stamps said they were willing to sacrifice to protect health care benefits. They’re furious that the Democrats gave up.
The post SNAP Recipients Crushed by Democrats Caving on Shutdown: “They Just Wasted It All” appeared first on The Intercept.
To make a statement about probability in a real world it is necessary to compound the probability derived from the model itself with the probability that the model is itself true. And there is no means of knowing whether the model is true; indeed it is difficult even to attach meaning to the concept ‘the […]