The announcement of the US/Iran Memorandum of Understanding allegedly ending the war between Iran and the USA/Israeli axis has brought forth more confusion than I can remember in the aftermath of any crisis. And, how can we even use the word “aftermath” when, shortly after the “signing” of the Memorandum, Israel continued its relentless war [...]
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get another to replace him. It doesn't matter who the UK's PM is--it is going to be a pompous corrupt hack with delusions of grandeur. Centuries of incest. physical and mental degeneracy and of negative selection doomed Britain and it cannot be saved unless the process of wholesale defenestration begins. In the end. UK's influence on world affairs is grossly exaggerated. to the point of a grotesque fantasy. supported to a large extent by me..
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The Left,” in the singular, is a simplified expression of the diversity of leftist movements[1]. By “the Left,” I mean all organized collective resistance against social injustice, inequality, and discrimination caused by the main forms of domination in the modern era: capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy. Resistance is only “leftist” when it is simultaneously anti-capitalist, anti-racist, [...]
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What is the collective noun of Prime Ministers asked James Callaghan while that picture was being taken. to which Harold Macmillan instantly replied: a lack of principals.England [Yukay if you must] had 6 PMs in the 1760s and 8 from 1827 to 1837. not counting Wellington twice. PMs were gentlemen then and read Homer. We will have had 7 when the new man takes office since 2016. of whom only one Johnson could read Homer and only one Cameron wa..
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Skeptical Doctor :: Pretending Obligatory Is Voluntary
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In The Critic. Dalrymple considers the government’s habit of describing compulsory bureaucratic tasks as voluntary “services” to which citizens “agree”. This is bureaucratic Maoism. and there is no better or more powerful way to destroy people’s independence and probity — and to enforce their dependence — than to oblige them to subscribe to lies. Read (…)
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A history of the Jewish Labor Bund, Here Where We Live Is Our Country plots the arc of the organization from the tsarist Pale of Settlement, to interwar Poland, into war-torn Warsaw and somehow, barely, out again. Crabapple writes in her own voice and interweaves family history with the wider historical scene. The book’s chapters have no citations or footnotes — they’re all relegated to endnotes indexed on page numbers and short phrases —....
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A history of the Jewish Labor Bund, Here Where We Live Is Our Country plots the arc of the organization from the tsarist Pale of Settlement, to interwar Poland, into war-torn Warsaw and somehow, barely, out again. Crabapple writes in her own voice and interweaves family history with the wider historical scene. The book’s chapters have no citations or footnotes — they’re all relegated to endnotes indexed on page numbers and short phrases —....
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IYE brought Miss Marple earlier … did I post and get on with the next job. Did I heck … I watched 3×54 mins of it. thinking what to have tomorrow apart from Dragnet.Suddenly youtube dropped William Powell and Myrna Loy in Shadow of Thin Man in my lap … had to check out the embeddability … yep. fine but British audiences and modern American might not know about this pair.Essentially. we’re talking screen chemistry and knowing the back story ....
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I’m pretty sure the best answer to every problem can be encapsulated in one simple dictum. You can use this dictum to meet all your problems. regardless of what they are. and create the best possible outcomes. You’re not going to like it. It has different forms. but here’s one: Do what has to be done. when it has to (…)
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Adopting AV1 for real-time communication at Meta has been a multi-year effort spanning codec selection, device eligibility, rate control, and error resilience. We’re sharing the technical and operational challenges while deploying AV1 and expanding coverage, and how we addressed them for real-time communication. We’re presenting several technologies for improving AV1 call quality, including rate control [...] Read More... The post Ad..
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Adopting AV1 for real-time communication at Meta has been a multi-year effort spanning codec selection, device eligibility, rate control, and error resilience. We’re sharing the technical and operational challenges while deploying AV1 and expanding coverage, and how we addressed them for real-time communication. We’re presenting several technologies for improving AV1 call quality, including rate control [...] Read More... The post Ad..
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On Tuesday, June 16, The Guardian published a story that will probably never make it “above-the-fold” in America’s increasingly timid and understaffed mainstream media. The headline: “Killed walking home from school: why did Somali children become targets of US drone strikes?”Subhead: “Six months ago, at least 12 people, including eight children, died during a US [...]
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In this week’s podcast. Delano Squires joins me to discuss his new book The Vanishing Black Family. We discuss how slavery badly deformed but did not destroy the black family. And how until the Great Society welfare programs and the new ideologies of the 1960s. the black family had been remarkably stable. We also talk about the role of economic factors. and the so-called “marriageable men” problem. And Squires gives some of his ideas for wh..
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Discover the strategic trade-offs of enterprise passkey deployment. Learn the differences between synced and device-bound credentials under FIDO2 standards.
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At the JetBrains x Codex Hackathon, I spent two days watching teams build and then pitch their projects. The thing that decided most of the winners wasn’t just the previous twenty-four hours of work. It was the few minutes they spent presenting it. A strong project with a confusing demo loses to a simpler project […]
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Barnhardt :: Over the transom… The best mis-heard lyric ever: “Carry a Laser”. plus the return of Mandolin Boy
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Hi. Ann. My mental jaw is still on the floor after your post about Mr. Mister’s “Kyrie”. I was born in November. 1976. and I can remember the day that my mother got that tape brand new in her first shipment from the Columbia Record and Tape Club. I’ve heard it for years on the (…)
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Kurgan Blog :: Feminists can’t Read or do Math. or Logic. or. well. anything much really
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www.thekurganblog.com
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4 weeks ago
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So I have had a little rather amusing running commentary with an avowed feminist. and it’s been rather amusing. In fairness to her I have to say that she has managed to hang in there rather good naturally and has not run off in a rage-huff. but. as you will see. readers… there is a (…) No related posts.
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Moon of Alabama :: British Powers-That-Be Change Public Face Of Their Program
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Another rotten lettuce – i.e. British prime minister – just left his office. I am not aware of anyone who will be sad about it. However – Keir Starmer was at least elected as party leader. He had spent time in the opposition and had won a parliament election in 2024. The clone the powersRead more...
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So Donald and I agree on this. but I want to go a step further. I am sure I am joined by the vast majority of American on this: Stop spending money and sending bodies to man American military bases in Italy. Take them all back. Every single one. thanks. Take back all your equipment. (…) No related posts.
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Samizdata :: Labour’s 2024 manifesto was called “Change”. It delivered.
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Change”. currently on sale at the Labour Party online shop for a mere £12.50. One has to admire the way that Sir Keir Starmer allowed himself to be photographed with his sleeves rolled up. but loosening his tie was a step too far. The ungovernable country. Why Britain keeps losing prime ministers – Tom Clark in the Guardian. Britain isn’t ungovernable. Our leaders just can’t govern – Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
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Due Diligence and Art :: Robert Kennedy. Ron Johnson and Tulsi Gabbard are not acting in good faith.
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sashalatypova.substack.com
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4 weeks ago
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My ongoing advice - remove your support from the rotten structures. or you will end up buried under the collapse. and these parasites will still be on top.
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1.162 words When Barack Obama was sworn in as president in January of 2009. the most influential conservative commentator in the United States was talk radio host Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh was a loyal supporter of all things Republican. and hostile to government intervention in the economy. instead preferring the more hands-off approach typical of his (…)
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AI Transformation Journey: 3 Myths and Learnings
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4 weeks ago
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Full recording and insights from the talk from Vinay Perneti, VP of Engineering, Augment Code, at the Engineering Leadership LIVE event in San Francisco.
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I was reading a book this morning and I came across the phrase 'the mists of time'. As always I felt a frisson of pleasure. It's one of the many clichés that strike me as intensely poetic.What is a cliché. anyway. We can't be entirely original with every utterance. Why is it OK to use an idiom and not a cliché. What's the difference.There are some clichés I just hate. such as 'life-hack' and 'bucket list'. [The critique in the link is from ....
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