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Does this also include O-1 visas? Lots of tech companies are switching to use O-1 instead of H-1B.
January 29, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Does this also include O-1 visas? Lots of tech companies are switching to use O-1 instead of H-1B.
With Attia and Huberman, CBS is about to become the protein network.
January 27, 2026 at 5:20 PM
With Attia and Huberman, CBS is about to become the protein network.
The head of CBP during “operation wetback” (yes that was the real name) shot a Mexican-American teenager to death after accusing the boy of stealing his car. The rot runs very deep.
January 24, 2026 at 11:58 PM
The head of CBP during “operation wetback” (yes that was the real name) shot a Mexican-American teenager to death after accusing the boy of stealing his car. The rot runs very deep.
Also if you want change it’s much more effective to say that we’re not living up to our traditional values than to say that we never really had those values in the first place and therefore we’re just doing what we always do. The first motivates people. The second is demoralizing and nihilistic.
January 22, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Also if you want change it’s much more effective to say that we’re not living up to our traditional values than to say that we never really had those values in the first place and therefore we’re just doing what we always do. The first motivates people. The second is demoralizing and nihilistic.
Because that’s what the law says. Releasing all the files means releasing all the crackpot stuff that people sent them. And people will take those files seriously because they found them on the DoJ website and they don’t understand the context.
December 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Because that’s what the law says. Releasing all the files means releasing all the crackpot stuff that people sent them. And people will take those files seriously because they found them on the DoJ website and they don’t understand the context.
Sounds like a mentally ill person sent a tip to the FBI website. There are probably tons of these.
December 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Sounds like a mentally ill person sent a tip to the FBI website. There are probably tons of these.
This version of the song had become very popular with fitness influencers, who seem to have no problem with casual racial slurs in their background music.
December 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This version of the song had become very popular with fitness influencers, who seem to have no problem with casual racial slurs in their background music.
Stoppard was born in Czechoslovakia. He set Leopoldstadt in Vienna for artistic reasons, but his family was Czech, not Austrian. I Highly recommend his essay about the family story behind the play.
December 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Stoppard was born in Czechoslovakia. He set Leopoldstadt in Vienna for artistic reasons, but his family was Czech, not Austrian. I Highly recommend his essay about the family story behind the play.
Also companies pay influencers to promote their products. I didn’t appreciate just how prevalent this is until I worked for a consumer products company.
November 30, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Also companies pay influencers to promote their products. I didn’t appreciate just how prevalent this is until I worked for a consumer products company.
Totally different situation though. Those are typically unionized jobs where the employer is a government agency where the employees work. Very, very different from eliminating back office jobs that are already often sent to other countries.
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Totally different situation though. Those are typically unionized jobs where the employer is a government agency where the employees work. Very, very different from eliminating back office jobs that are already often sent to other countries.
At the most recent Boston No Kings rally, the MC scolded the crowd for signs calling Trump a convicted felon because he has felons in his family and doesn’t want to send a discouraging message to them. The gulf between how activists and voters see this issue remains huge.
November 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
At the most recent Boston No Kings rally, the MC scolded the crowd for signs calling Trump a convicted felon because he has felons in his family and doesn’t want to send a discouraging message to them. The gulf between how activists and voters see this issue remains huge.
Plenty of middle class homeowners are NIMBYs. Blaming corporations because a handful of people who don’t want more traffic are using historic preservation laws to hold up housing construction makes no sense. There’s more than one lens to look at the world!
November 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Plenty of middle class homeowners are NIMBYs. Blaming corporations because a handful of people who don’t want more traffic are using historic preservation laws to hold up housing construction makes no sense. There’s more than one lens to look at the world!
The people around here who make it difficult to build housing are homeowners and small businesses who use concerns like historic preservation, tree coverage, parking, etc to cause delays. These aren’t things that corporations care about. Housing supply is limited and demand high so it’s expensive.
November 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The people around here who make it difficult to build housing are homeowners and small businesses who use concerns like historic preservation, tree coverage, parking, etc to cause delays. These aren’t things that corporations care about. Housing supply is limited and demand high so it’s expensive.
This isn’t an aberration- another 1 mile bike path, 4 years and still in planning. An underpass, 2 years and still in planning. 100 units of affordable housing, 3 years in planning and now they don’t seem to have financing.
November 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This isn’t an aberration- another 1 mile bike path, 4 years and still in planning. An underpass, 2 years and still in planning. 100 units of affordable housing, 3 years in planning and now they don’t seem to have financing.
In my city a project to redesign a 2 mile bike lane is under construction after 3+ years of planning and a last-minute delay due to a lawsuit over removing 5 trees. If even the small projects are that hard how do we tackle big issues like housing? Can’t blame corporations for everything!
November 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
In my city a project to redesign a 2 mile bike lane is under construction after 3+ years of planning and a last-minute delay due to a lawsuit over removing 5 trees. If even the small projects are that hard how do we tackle big issues like housing? Can’t blame corporations for everything!
Has that finding been replicated? Skimming the paper, my instinct is that these results are way too clean to be believable. There are so many factors that go into how a person would respond to a scenario like this.
November 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Has that finding been replicated? Skimming the paper, my instinct is that these results are way too clean to be believable. There are so many factors that go into how a person would respond to a scenario like this.
I don’t understand how that squares with Ossorf voting no. If they think ending the shutdown is what voters want, why is Ossoff voting no? And if they don’t think it’s what voters want, then why do it?
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I don’t understand how that squares with Ossorf voting no. If they think ending the shutdown is what voters want, why is Ossoff voting no? And if they don’t think it’s what voters want, then why do it?
Which one?
September 22, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Which one?
Also some of the big urban K-12 school districts use H1-B visas to hire teachers!
September 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Also some of the big urban K-12 school districts use H1-B visas to hire teachers!
At one point I was trying to remember non-US newspaper domains because I thought they would load faster. A few of them did load normally but didn’t have anything that wasn’t on TV.
September 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
At one point I was trying to remember non-US newspaper domains because I thought they would load faster. A few of them did load normally but didn’t have anything that wasn’t on TV.
I definitely had a live journal account then and some other things (I remember there was a clone called dead journal). But I have absolutely no memory of anyone using live journal or any similar site as a source of news on 9/11.
September 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I definitely had a live journal account then and some other things (I remember there was a clone called dead journal). But I have absolutely no memory of anyone using live journal or any similar site as a source of news on 9/11.
Was that social media though in anything like the modern sense? For comparison on Oct 7 Israelis were seeing these gruesome videos in real time posted by random people including the terrorists - on 9/11 any video I saw came from TV and was moderated by journalists.
September 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Was that social media though in anything like the modern sense? For comparison on Oct 7 Israelis were seeing these gruesome videos in real time posted by random people including the terrorists - on 9/11 any video I saw came from TV and was moderated by journalists.
Oh I was definitely online and I followed blogs. It’s possible I even looked at Drudge or Talking Points Memo on 9/11 if they loaded but I’m not sure how much that’s “social media”. Certainly there was no FYP, timeline you could continuously refresh, video.
September 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Oh I was definitely online and I followed blogs. It’s possible I even looked at Drudge or Talking Points Memo on 9/11 if they loaded but I’m not sure how much that’s “social media”. Certainly there was no FYP, timeline you could continuously refresh, video.
That’s not how I remember 9/11. The internet was so overwhelmed that news sites were displaying bare bones text versions with minimal graphics. I don’t think it occurred to me or anyone I was with to check social media. Blogs became very important in the months after 9/11 but not on that day.
September 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
That’s not how I remember 9/11. The internet was so overwhelmed that news sites were displaying bare bones text versions with minimal graphics. I don’t think it occurred to me or anyone I was with to check social media. Blogs became very important in the months after 9/11 but not on that day.
It’s not an argument. It’s a factual claim. It could be right or wrong, I have no idea. I don’t think a party can be pro-science and also take the position that certain factual claims must be wrong or must not be made because we don’t like how those facts could be misused.
September 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
It’s not an argument. It’s a factual claim. It could be right or wrong, I have no idea. I don’t think a party can be pro-science and also take the position that certain factual claims must be wrong or must not be made because we don’t like how those facts could be misused.