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The Female Loneliness Epidemic is larger than the Male Loneliness Epidemic, but you do not hear about it.
The reason, to me, seems to be rooted in the fact that lonely females are far less likely to shoot you.
The reason, to me, seems to be rooted in the fact that lonely females are far less likely to shoot you.
November 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The Female Loneliness Epidemic is larger than the Male Loneliness Epidemic, but you do not hear about it.
The reason, to me, seems to be rooted in the fact that lonely females are far less likely to shoot you.
The reason, to me, seems to be rooted in the fact that lonely females are far less likely to shoot you.
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given one of the few good uses for LLMs is coding assistance maybe tech council members should immediately open source all their code under a permissive license. to do otherwise would risk harming investment in the AI industry in Australia, imo
August 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
given one of the few good uses for LLMs is coding assistance maybe tech council members should immediately open source all their code under a permissive license. to do otherwise would risk harming investment in the AI industry in Australia, imo
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There are basic but fundamental errors at the heart of the Wolf-Pettis thesis. Most importantly, there is a misunderstanding of the meaning and definition of 'saving'. 1/
Wolf just casually chucking around the idea of the global reserve currency provider raising capital controls *in the interest of financial stability*. Is it April 1st already? on.ft.com/3ZLo1zB
Why global imbalances do matter
If the US wants to accelerate a worldwide discussion with a policy intervention, the obvious one would be a tax on capital inflows
on.ft.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
There are basic but fundamental errors at the heart of the Wolf-Pettis thesis. Most importantly, there is a misunderstanding of the meaning and definition of 'saving'. 1/
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"If New Labour learned how to win from Hawke and Keating, Albanese taught Starmer how not to lose."
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/06/star...
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/06/star...
Starmerism Down Under
Anthony Albanese’s Australian Labor Party is competing with Starmer’s for blandness and capitulation — and in doing so, proving the importance of rebuilding international working-class power.
tribunemag.co.uk
June 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
"If New Labour learned how to win from Hawke and Keating, Albanese taught Starmer how not to lose."
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/06/star...
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/06/star...
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If you're a journalist in the US and you're not speaking out against the ongoing killing of Palestinian journalists, at record levels, by a US-funded foreign military, then you should hang your head in shame.
From the farewell of the Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat.
March 25, 2025 at 3:41 AM
If you're a journalist in the US and you're not speaking out against the ongoing killing of Palestinian journalists, at record levels, by a US-funded foreign military, then you should hang your head in shame.
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FUCK MY LIFE!
North Korea laundered more than $450m through the cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash, which has seen >$7b in total laundering since 2019. Today, the Trump administration removed Biden-era sanctions on Tornado Cash. bit.ly/41LBmbo bit.ly/4hqpC3X
Original 2022 sanctions announcement: bit.ly/4iIsgTB
Original 2022 sanctions announcement: bit.ly/4iIsgTB
March 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
FUCK MY LIFE!
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I just read Abundance. Yes, we need to build faster. To do so, we need to be precise about what causes delays.
Imprecision risks a co-opting of "abundance" by deregulation fans – a smokescreen to jettison labor & equity standards that aren’t the source of delay.
For example:🧵
Imprecision risks a co-opting of "abundance" by deregulation fans – a smokescreen to jettison labor & equity standards that aren’t the source of delay.
For example:🧵
March 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I just read Abundance. Yes, we need to build faster. To do so, we need to be precise about what causes delays.
Imprecision risks a co-opting of "abundance" by deregulation fans – a smokescreen to jettison labor & equity standards that aren’t the source of delay.
For example:🧵
Imprecision risks a co-opting of "abundance" by deregulation fans – a smokescreen to jettison labor & equity standards that aren’t the source of delay.
For example:🧵
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The window for this @tomscocca.bsky.social column to avoid being the defining piece of political commentary for this era is rapidly closing.
defector.com/this-is-uvalde
defector.com/this-is-uvalde
This Is Uvalde | Defector
Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic politics, coverage, and consequences of Campaign 2024. Should Democrats att...
defector.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The window for this @tomscocca.bsky.social column to avoid being the defining piece of political commentary for this era is rapidly closing.
defector.com/this-is-uvalde
defector.com/this-is-uvalde
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"Some of them are executing what they think is the protocol for this type of situation even though it's obvious to their own eyes and ears that the protocol and the situation are a mismatch....Someone somewhere is looking for the right tools, the appropriate key. " defector.com/this-is-uvalde
This Is Uvalde | Defector
Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic politics, coverage, and consequences of Campaign 2024. Should Democrats att...
defector.com
March 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
"Some of them are executing what they think is the protocol for this type of situation even though it's obvious to their own eyes and ears that the protocol and the situation are a mismatch....Someone somewhere is looking for the right tools, the appropriate key. " defector.com/this-is-uvalde
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Covid made the world sicker, angrier, and more fragmented. There has been no recovery from the social and medical consequences. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
How Covid Sickened the National Psyche
While the US was a troubled nation long before the coronavirus, our failure to treat the pandemic as an enduring emergency helped birth this nasty moment.
www.thenation.com
March 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Covid made the world sicker, angrier, and more fragmented. There has been no recovery from the social and medical consequences. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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New policy question just landed on the Direct Democracy Forum: "Should Australia abolish the 50% Capital Gains Tax (CGT) discount?"
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Should Australia abolish the 50% Capital Gains Tax (CGT) discount?
Australia’s 50% CGT discount allows individual investors to pay tax on only half of any capital gain from assets held longer than 12 months. Introduced in 1999 as part of the Howard Government’s respo...
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March 11, 2025 at 11:11 AM
New policy question just landed on the Direct Democracy Forum: "Should Australia abolish the 50% Capital Gains Tax (CGT) discount?"
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"What if, rather than blaming Palestinians, Arab Americans, and American Muslims, these pundits had seen their treatment—under Biden and for decades before him—as central to the Trump-led repression looming before us?"
Noura Erakat on the imperial boomerang
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
Noura Erakat on the imperial boomerang
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Boomerang Comes Back - Boston Review
How the U.S.-backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home—from Project Esther to violence at the border.
www.bostonreview.net
March 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"What if, rather than blaming Palestinians, Arab Americans, and American Muslims, these pundits had seen their treatment—under Biden and for decades before him—as central to the Trump-led repression looming before us?"
Noura Erakat on the imperial boomerang
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
Noura Erakat on the imperial boomerang
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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Excellent, by @drodrik.bsky.social : why 'Trump’s elite backers—economic nationalists, Wall Street, and the techno-right—may soon fracture over conflicting agendas.'
www.socialeurope.eu/the-coming-s...
www.socialeurope.eu/the-coming-s...
The Coming Showdown in Trumpworld
Trump’s elite backers—economic nationalists, Wall Street, and the techno-right—may soon fracture over conflicting agendas.
www.socialeurope.eu
March 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Excellent, by @drodrik.bsky.social : why 'Trump’s elite backers—economic nationalists, Wall Street, and the techno-right—may soon fracture over conflicting agendas.'
www.socialeurope.eu/the-coming-s...
www.socialeurope.eu/the-coming-s...
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China's desulphurization definitely led to regional warming and (extreme) precipitation increase.
Shipping SOx is over the oceans, which likely causes a very strong regional and global forcing.
Hansen et al. estimate +0.5 W/m² from shipping desulphurization:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Shipping SOx is over the oceans, which likely causes a very strong regional and global forcing.
Hansen et al. estimate +0.5 W/m² from shipping desulphurization:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the United Nations and the Public Well-Informed?
Global temperature leaped more than 0.4°C (0.7°F) during the past two years, the 12-month average peaking in August 2024 at +1.6°C relative to the temperature at the beginning of last century (the ...
www.tandfonline.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
China's desulphurization definitely led to regional warming and (extreme) precipitation increase.
Shipping SOx is over the oceans, which likely causes a very strong regional and global forcing.
Hansen et al. estimate +0.5 W/m² from shipping desulphurization:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Shipping SOx is over the oceans, which likely causes a very strong regional and global forcing.
Hansen et al. estimate +0.5 W/m² from shipping desulphurization:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ed Zitron is full of bluster but completely clueless!
February 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Ed Zitron is full of bluster but completely clueless!
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“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”
Yesterday many thousands of federal employees were terminated. This is a Reddit thread for federal employees that got laid off.
From the fednews community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the fednews community
www.reddit.com
February 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”
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This is the message we need to send at #TeslaTakedown protests today: we know Tesla's trillion dollar valuation is built on fraud and abuse, and we are coming for it. We will make Tesla ownership a taboo, cars and stock, unthinkable to anyone who believes in the basic values of the U.S. constitution
February 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This is the message we need to send at #TeslaTakedown protests today: we know Tesla's trillion dollar valuation is built on fraud and abuse, and we are coming for it. We will make Tesla ownership a taboo, cars and stock, unthinkable to anyone who believes in the basic values of the U.S. constitution
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Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
February 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
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Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
February 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
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Remarkable: Spain's post-2008 GDP has now grown more in % terms than Germany's, mainly thanks to the last three years (h/t @danielkral.bsky.social).
January 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Remarkable: Spain's post-2008 GDP has now grown more in % terms than Germany's, mainly thanks to the last three years (h/t @danielkral.bsky.social).
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A week ago I was being told to apologize for saying Trump would be worse for Gaza because he faked a temporary pause/pretend ceasefire to coincide with his inauguration.
Now he’s just openly endorsing/encouraging ethnic cleansing.
Now he’s just openly endorsing/encouraging ethnic cleansing.
On Air Force One from Las Vegas to Miami, President Trump says Palestinians in Gaza should be relocated.
“I’d like Egypt to take people. I’d like Jordan to take people,” he tells reporters.”We just clean out that whole thing.”
“I’d like Egypt to take people. I’d like Jordan to take people,” he tells reporters.”We just clean out that whole thing.”
January 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
A week ago I was being told to apologize for saying Trump would be worse for Gaza because he faked a temporary pause/pretend ceasefire to coincide with his inauguration.
Now he’s just openly endorsing/encouraging ethnic cleansing.
Now he’s just openly endorsing/encouraging ethnic cleansing.
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”Trump has opened up space for all kinds of intellectual racketeers, who pose as members of an intellectual Maquis while trying to save or advance their careers. These dead-end centrists still dominate many high-circulation periodicals. They present a huge but neglected problem.” —Pankaj Mishra
Empire's Racketeers - Boston Review
Wajahat Ali speaks with Pankaj Mishra on the devastating consequences of Western imperialism, globalization, and capitalism and the fate of liberal democracy.
www.bostonreview.net
January 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
”Trump has opened up space for all kinds of intellectual racketeers, who pose as members of an intellectual Maquis while trying to save or advance their careers. These dead-end centrists still dominate many high-circulation periodicals. They present a huge but neglected problem.” —Pankaj Mishra
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Imposing a lagged disposable income squeeze on mortgage holders every time energy prices spike does not strike me a an optimal policy. It's also rather obviously in tension with Labour's focus on the interests of 'working people'.
December 18, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Imposing a lagged disposable income squeeze on mortgage holders every time energy prices spike does not strike me a an optimal policy. It's also rather obviously in tension with Labour's focus on the interests of 'working people'.