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Do we want to trust the nuclear codes to his “metrics” again? Come on.

My dearest one, my sweetheart, my everything, I call to you from the far right-hand side of the browser window. Well, not the far right-hand side, a little to the left of it, near the tab for “The Only Cheese Fondue Recipe You’ll Ever Need,” which is a white box with a red E in it—if you find that, go two to the left, and I’m here. Calling to you. Waiting for you.

Don’t you know I pine for you, my darling? Don’t you know that only in the light of your gaze do I have a form, a purpose?

You’re distracted, wooed by other tabs. I understand.

“How Noah Kahan Seized His Moment”: of course you’d like to know. We all would.

“Take the Internet’s Most Accurate Enneagram Test”: yes, a wise idea, for the quest for self-knowledge is the project of a lifetime.

“$1.1 Million Homes in New York, Illinois, and Washington”: No, you don’t have that kind of money now, but one day, in the vague future, for hazy reasons, you certainly might.

Big news: FrameLab just hit a major milestone — 10,000 total subscribers! Thank you so much for reading. If you can afford it, please consider becoming one of our paid subscribers. Because your support makes a big difference. — George and Gil Part 3 in the Moral Warfare 101 series: Ninety-eight percent. That’s an estimate of how much […]

All Party Parliamentary Groups have long been seen as the 'next big scandal' in lobbying, which the new rules aim to tackle

A supposedly grassroots 'tax protest' against Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner, which hit the headlines on Wednesday, was actually organised by the Conservative party

The fossil fuel giant is suing investors to intimidate them from ever trying to influence corporate decisions.

It’s coming up on Monday. And he’s freaking out. There’s been some talk lately about Donald Trump’s light campaign schedule compared to President Joe Biden’s who’s been visiting swing states constantly even as he’s handling some very thorny legislative and foreign policy problems. The contrast has been sharp. Trump is spending much more time on the golf course than holding rallies and even his appearances on friendly right wing media have been scarce.  Judging by his Truth Social feed, it’s fair to say that he’s stressed and it’s not about the campaign: he’s obsessed with the criminal trial that’s set to start next Monday. I suspect he never thought it would get this far — he’s tried every trick in the book to delay the proceedings and nothing so far has worked so he’s getting frantic, posting things like this throughout the day: It would seem that these outbursts serve as some sort of self-soothing exercise.

As Westminster is rocked by a ‘honeypot’ scandal, Byline Times has uncovered two strikingly similar catfish conspiracies targeting celebrities and the public over the past five years

Fool me twice, etc. “No one in law enforcement should be caught off guard if trouble breaks out before, during, or after the November presidential election,” Juliette Kayyem begins in The Atlantic. It is not too soon for the Biden administration and the Department of Justice to start what-iffing a response, and to take seriously recommendations made by the January 6th Committee . It appears the administration means to get ahead of the next insurrection. “A show of readiness,” Kayyem writes, “can also deter people who might have learned the wrong lesson from the Capitol riot: that just a bit more violence might have changed the outcome of the 2020 election.” Because the most hardcore MAGA soldiers not already in jail (especially those with military training) will have learned from Jan. 6 how to do a coup and how not to. Kayyem adds: Any attempts to shore up the nation’s defenses against political violence might be misinterpreted—or intentionally misconstrued—by some of Trump’s supporters as an attempt by a Democratic administration to use federal power to interfere in the 2024 election.

A 2023 Column Contest grand-prize winner, Laurence Pevsner’s Sorry Not Sorry investigates why we’re sick of everyone apologizing all the time—and how the collapse of the public apology leaves little room for forgiveness and grace in our politics and culture.

Late last month, Stephen Colbert made an unusual statement on The Late Show. It wasn’t quite an apology—more like sorry’s mysterious cousin.

Colbert offered a short preamble about how he tells a lot of jokes—mostly whatever’s in the public discourse. Then he got into it: “For the past six weeks to two months, everybody has been talking about the mystery of Kate Middleton’s disappearance from public life,” Colbert said. “Two weeks ago, we did some jokes about that mystery, and all the attendant froo-frah in the reporting about that.”

Republicans in disarray Republicans want desperately to control the national narrative around the presidential election. They need voters and the press focused on any number of subjects not-Donald Trump and his visible mental decay: an immigration “crisis,” inflation, the economy, Joe Biden’s age, sexual identity politics, election “fraud,” etc. It’s just that their MAGA base keeps spitting out the bit and Donald Trump cannot stay on his own message. Trump’s campaign finance criminal trial in Manhattan begins on Monday despite his every effort to derail it. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-MAGA) threatens to oust yet another Republican speaker of the ungovernable House. GOP-controlled states keep tripling down on abortion restrictions. Arizona’s state Supreme Court just reactivated a Civil War abortion law.

Allium Cepa

A homeopathic remedy used to treat symptoms of the common cold and allergies. It would also work nicely as the name of a kind, older woman in a YA dystopian novel who is deathly allergic to scientifically backed medicine.

Arnica

A homeopathic remedy used to treat muscle aches. To be fair, this one kind of works. But for the love of God, take some damn Advil.

Scientist #2

A minor character in Divergent. I bet she doesn’t believe in homeopathy.

Agaricus Muscarius

A homeopathic remedy. But if you’re writing a YA dystopian novel, this would work for the name of the protagonist’s harp-prodigy brother, who is killed by the authoritarian government in chapter three. Just spitballing here.

Clove

Both. But the remedy will make your stomach ache worse, and the character was killed in The Hunger Games, so, all around, kind of a dud. Instead, try Pepto Bismol and 27 Dresses.

Any battlefield use of the software would be a dramatic turnaround for OpenAI, which describes its mission as developing AI that can benefit all of humanity.

The post Microsoft Pitched OpenAI’s DALL-E as Battlefield Tool for U.S. Military appeared first on The Intercept.

The first quarter of 2024 has seen a fourfold increase in tenants investigating how to notify landlords of their intention to strike

Why is the Indian Government turning a blind eye to the 'civil war' raging in the northeastern state?

Yoav Har-Even’s direct involvement in supporting the IDF operation in Gaza, despite also being tasked to lead the investigation into the conduct of the operation, is an obvious conflict of interest