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With alt text, Shopify CEO’s Wikipedia entry:
February 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Canadian friends let's boycott all the billionaires who were at the orange villain inauguration. Boycott X, Facebook, Instagram, Netflix, Disney, Apple, Google, Spotify, all the AI tech. This is economic war. We are done being nice. 😡🇨🇦
February 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.
February 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
@acoyne.bsky.social Glad to see you here. I've left the dumpster fire that is X and am happy to see a welcome face.
February 3, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Perfectly captured.
February 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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You see games very differently when you start making them.

From a player's perspective: Mario travels across the Mushroom Kingdom!

From a dev's perspective: Mario is banished from the universe when he touches a flagpole. A perfect Mario clone is birthed and dropped into level 2.
January 17, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Dive into the era of the Crusades and understand its impact on history—join us online! https://medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/crusades #Crusades
The Crusades 1095-1187: A multi-perspective history
This course will offer an overview history covering the Crusades to the Middle East during the period 1095-1187 (from the First Crusade to the Fall of Jerusalem).
medievalstudies.thinkific.com
January 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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TOMORROW the great @5minmedievalist.bsky.social Danièle Cybulskie from @medievalists.bsky.social will be on Legends and Lectures!

The programme is completely FREE on Youtube and anywhere you get your podcasts, so SIGN UP NOW: www.youtube.com/@authormiche...
January 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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I wrote much of what I think about this election before it happened, so I am going to put it all together here. My book, Autocracy Inc, described the network of autocrats who seek to undermine democracy, inside their countries and ours
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725302...
Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum: 9780385549936 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 10, 2024 at 12:51 PM
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57 companies are responsible for 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions since 2016.

These companies include fossil fuel giants like Chevron, Shell, and BP, who have been raking in record profits.

The profits of Big Oil should not be more important than the future of our planet.
Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016
Analysis reveals many big producers increased output of fossil fuels and related emissions in seven years after Paris climate deal
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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A followup note here: Editors would have complained If I wrote an *opinion piece* ending with an evidence-free assertion by a partisan economist about who caused inflation. In a news analysis? paulkrugman.substack.com/p/bothsidesi...
Bothsidesing, With a Republican Slant: Here We Go Again
Election results don’t change the facts
paulkrugman.substack.com
January 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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I talked about Trudeau's resignation announcement on the PBS Newshour this evening. youtu.be/jaoZSmRI1YE
On Trudeau's resignation announcement | Roland Paris interview on PBS Newshour | January 6, 2025
YouTube video by rparis001
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January 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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November 24, 2024 at 5:11 AM