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What Makes a County Great?

https://steadystate.org/what-makes-a-county-great/
Created
Thu, 05/10/2023 - 23:46
by Dave Rollo

Think about the county where you live. Picture your favorite streets, event spaces, scenery, or terrain. If you’ve lived there awhile, chances are you know what makes it great: the natural, cultural, and commercial places whose characteristics make your community special to you and your neighbors.

Your connection to them becomes part of your sense of place. You delight in taking visiting family and friends to these special sites and you lament changes that threaten or despoil them.

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Alternatives to Girl Math

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/alternatives-to-girl-math
Created
Thu, 05/10/2023 - 23:00

“A new personal finance trend has TikTok users recommending humorous new ways to rethink their spending habits. We’ve all justified unnecessary purchases before, but now social media has labeled the habit as ‘girl math.’” — CBS News

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US Government Math
If you run out of money, print more.

Hollywood CEO Math
If you spend $50 million on one film starring Timothée Chalamet and use AI to replicate his likeness in perpetuity, you really spent only one dollar per hair flip. If you use AI to write the movies, too, they’re practically free, and you can buy yourself a bigger yacht.

Crypto Bro Math
The more dates you spend mansplaining how crypto works, the more your DoucheCoin is worth.

Airlines Math
If your flight is delayed five hours, you owe us an extra two hundred dollars.

Reviews of New Food: Eggo Brunch in a Jar Sippin’ Cream

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/eggo-brunch-in-a-jar-sippin-cream
Created
Thu, 05/10/2023 - 22:59

As a parent, my mornings are spent trying to appease my children’s finicky and inconsistent food preferences, digging mashed, soggy Cheerios out of carpeting, and overriding the time controls on the kids’ tablets over and over again as my wife and I attempt to eke out a moment of rest. Don’t get me wrong, I love my children. But I miss easing into the day. I miss brunch. Mornings overflowing with bellinis and mimosas. Avocado toast. Dining al fresco at a hip downtown restaurant. Soaking up the laughter of my friends and the rays of a soft spring sun. Not feeling guilty for drinking before noon. Not worrying if the day will come to a crashing halt because a child finds an errant onion in their omelet or suddenly realizes, for no reason at all, that they need a Band-Aid.

UK DATA BRIDGE: A GLOBAL PRIVACY RACE TO THE BOTTOM

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/uk-data-bridge-a-global-privacy-race-to-th…
Created
Thu, 05/10/2023 - 22:02
On October 12, the UK extension (Data Bridge) to the EU–US Transatlantic Data Privacy Framework (DPF) will come into force. This is a voluntary scheme US companies can use to share personal data freely with the EU, and it was introduced after the European Court of Justice (CJEU) found that the previous framework, the Privacy […]

The causal devolution

https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2023/10/05/the-causal-devolution/
Created
Thu, 05/10/2023 - 20:54
We who like to imagine ourselves responsible for the public’s knowledge of society despise description and indeed despise the methods that are generally used for quantitative description. Our social indicators are simply disaggre­gated variables, ready for input to causal analysis. The notions of complex combinatoric description, of typologies based on multiple variables — these fill […]

UNHERD interviews me on TECHNOFEUDALISM

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/10/05/unherd-interviews-me-on-technofeudali…
Created
Thu, 05/10/2023 - 20:39

In his new book, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, Yanis Varoufakis, the Leftist economist and former finance minister of Greece, suggests that the capitalist age has already come to an end. He argues that a new global economic and political system has stealthily replaced the old order, with the emerging dominance of tech monopolies like Amazon and Google. He […]

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Music bargains galore at 2Air FM CD garage sale

https://www.newsofthearea.com.au/music-bargains-galore-at-2air-fm-cd-garage-sale
Created
Thu, 05/10/2023 - 18:09

MUSIC historians, collectors, fans and those who generally love a rummage through one man’s trash in search of treasures should put 2Air FM’s garage sale date in their diaries. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us – (02) 4981 8882. Email us – media@newsofthearea.com.au On...

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Fergawdsakes

https://digbysblog.net/2023/10/04/fergawdsakes-9/
Created
Thu, 05/10/2023 - 10:00
Yet another example of right wing arrested development CNN: Kevin McCarthy was behind interim Speaker Patrick McHenry’s move to kick former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Majority Leader Steny Hoyer out of their office spaces, two Republican sources told CNN. GOP Rep. Garret Graves told reporters on Wednesday that McCarthy is getting the office that McHenry has ordered her to vacate. “Look the deal is that the office that Pelosi is in right now is the office of the preceding speaker. Speaker Pelosi and other Democrats determined that they wanted a new … speaker, and it’s Kevin McCarthy. So, he’s getting the office,” he said. Sources close to Pelosi and Hoyer say it was retaliation for Democrats siding against McCarthy in voting to vacate the speaker’s chair Tuesday. The unofficial offices are located near the House floor. McCarthy and McHenry’s did not respond to requests for comment. Graves then put the blame on Democrats for voting McCarthy out of office. “I don’t know what they’re complaining about,” Graves said. “They created this situation.