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Gabriel
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South American member of the educated middle-class, born in the closing decades of the last century.

https://cfalso.ghost.io/
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Possibly germane in the current context, something I wrote a few years ago about why the last Argentine dictatorship does not generate the degree of nostalgia one sees for its peers in Brazil or Chile

(tl/dr, terror and mismanagement ended up affecting the elite.)

cfalso.ghost.io/a-dead-gener...
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Good morning, Asia. While you were sleeping, one of our most-read articles was about the ChatGPT maker’s cash burn on.ft.com/43oDIi3
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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I screenshotted the interface to encourage people to try it. But he did far more than make the interface.

He set up a nice structure in a database with powerful search. Split pages, extracted metadata, formatted it, indexed it, and poured the data into the database. :)
github.com/paulgp/epste...
November 13, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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If my time zone math is right, Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler published this gem about two hours before the WSJ published their story hahaha
July 18, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Michael Wolff, Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein taking time out of their day covering up the world's most famous pedophile ring to complain about Ta-Nehesi Coates.
November 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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turns out Larry Summers really was a raging sub-literate misogynist creep this entire time, who could have known
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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A useful model for "AI agents" is that they're the current excuse meme for AI. They're not a thing that works at all, now or in the fabulous future. But they're *such* good material for hypecrafting.
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Amazon just sued one of the largest power companies in Oregon after it failed to power up two data center (one without enough power and one with no power at all) campuses that were meant to be ready *in 2021*. Sure hope this isn't an industry wide problem!
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amaz...
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Me in March, me in August. Nobody bothered to see if CoreWeave even has the capacity to serve its OpenAI deal, or cared that Core Scientific, who had never built AI data centers, didn't seem to have the capacity either
www.wheresyoured.at/core-incompe...
www.wheresyoured.at/ai-bubble-20...
November 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Has anybody asked the dickheads who spent years squealing idiot abuse at anyone who said the War On Terror was dumb and murderous bullshit what they make of western leaders queuing up to shake hands with Mr Al Qaeda In Syria? I want to hear them blame this one on post-modernism.
November 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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This is really scary: even former Tory Davie, the disproportionate coverage of Reform and relentless attention to right wing anti-immigrant talking points have not been enough. Right wing networks want complete capture.

Davie and Turness resignation statements in full www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tim Davie and Deborah Turness resign: BBC statements in full
Director general says "mistakes have been made" but "allegations that BBC News is institutionally biased are wrong".
www.bbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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It is, and what goes unsaid is that the piece in question a) opened with one of the most blatantly racist ledes I’ve read in years* and b) was by Jeremy Peters, who for the last decade has functioned as effectively a Heritage Foundation-type operative inside the Times newsroom
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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If you liked that @lithub.com.web.brid.gy essay on not talking to the NYT about Mamdani, read this @nplusonemag.com piece by the same author on working class higher ed and its enemies.

www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello
So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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When I was growing up my dad was in the ad business and had this movie on VHS, which was weird for an American, but this scene imprinted on me permanently. youtu.be/6iAecAtJVdE?...
Distortion of Truth by Association
YouTube video by Dim Sum
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Anybody who has watched the Times pull this shit for ages knows this game. Good piece.
November 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Why do you think they’ve laid waste to the postwar international system? They’ve done it because if it still had any force, then the most important leaders in numerous white person countries would soon be serving decades in jail for knowingly abetting war crimes.
November 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.

They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.

If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."

🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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It'd be nice if there was a natl paper that had a local beat with tons of feds but Bezos's rag is doing Furlough Fun puff piece BS

Anyway air traffic being snarled is a pain and SNAP is a travesty, but also not getting a paycheck for going on 6 weeks kinda sucks too, esp working for 4 of them
November 8, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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I know everyone thinks all feds are like GS-15s in NoVa with a consultant spouse pulling down six figures, but in reality land shit is starting to Get Bad even for those of us with decent financial resources
Hell yeah

Developing a fall back option of camping on Senator Foghorn Leghorn's front lawn when I get foreclosed on, I am a constituent after all
GOP SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: It may be 2026 when we'll come out of the shutdown.

REPORTERS: 😳

KENNEDY: I'm not kidding, you guys. I mean, you see what I see. Okay? This shutdown is going to last a long time. What's going to get us out of it?
November 8, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Oh wow. Instant pre-order, even tho' publication date August of next year.
Nicholas Mulder - The Age of Confiscation

Making and Taking Property in the Creation of the Modern World

À paraître en août chez Allen Lane
November 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Nicholas Mulder - The Age of Confiscation

Making and Taking Property in the Creation of the Modern World

À paraître en août chez Allen Lane
November 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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This guy is a blowhard? GASP!
November 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Ordinary American workers do not share the financial and media elites’ euphoria over the Trump economy.
November 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM