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Facebook Is Accused Of Fostering Ethnic Enclaves At Headquarters
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Facebook Is Accused Of Fostering Ethnic Enclaves At Headquarters Authored by Jose Nino via Headline USA , Tech advocacy group blames visa programs for enabling corporate tribalism. A terminated software engineer is accusing Facebook parent company Meta of allowing Chinese migrants to take over entire departments while American employees face systematic exclusion and layoffs, Neil Munro of Breitbart News reported . Je....
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'Crypto Spring': StanChart Sees Ethereum Outperforming As Mt. Gox Moves $739M BTC From Cold Wallets
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'Crypto Spring': StanChart Sees Ethereum Outperforming As Mt. Gox Moves $739M BTC From Cold Wallets “Over the past week, we acquired 26,497 ETH,” Bitmine Immersion Technologies Chair, Tom Lee, said in a statement on Monday. “In our view, ETH prices are not reflecting the strengthening of Ethereum fundamentals, but then again, this is not surprising given we are in the early stages of crypto spring .” As CoinTelegraph r....
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Massachusetts Church Cancels Traditional July 4th Celebration "To Better Understand Our Own Whiteness"
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Massachusetts Church Cancels Traditional July 4th Celebration "To Better Understand Our Own Whiteness" Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org , In Nantucket, there is an interesting conflict between churches after the Nantucket Unitarian Universalists (NUU) canceled its traditional celebration . In a letter from the church and the Rev. Erin Splaine of the Second Congregational Meeting House Society , residents were tol....
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Euro Area Inflation Tops 3.0% For First Time Since 2023, Cementing ECB Rate Hike
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Euro Area Inflation Tops 3.0% For First Time Since 2023, Cementing ECB Rate Hike Euro Area inflation topped 3% for the first time since September 2023, further cementing expectations for a rate hike when the ECB meets next week. Consumer prices rose 3.2% from a year ago in May, and up from 3% the previous month, in line expectations. But core inflation, which excludes volatile items like food and energy, jumped more than anticipated t....
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Israel Kills 8 in Attacks on Lebanon After Trump Announces De-escalation
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At least eight people have been killed in Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon, according to the war-torn country’s National News Agency (NNA), hours after US President Donald Trump announced an agreement to de-escalate fighting that neither Israel nor the Lebanese group Hezbollah has publicly accepted. Two Syrians were killed in an Israeli attack on a plant nursery [...]
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The Merchant of Fear and the Buyers of War: Trump’s Middle Eastern Story
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Donald Trump is back at it again, making one of those big, dramatic statements that only he can deliver. This time, he claimed that if the United States hadn’t bombed Iran, Israel would have been wiped out by a nuclear bomb. At first, it sounds like a serious security warning. But when you look closer, [...]
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We no longer live in a world where courts reliably enforce limits on executive power; where media calls out abuse as abuse or where politicians depend on legitimacy to hold power. These conditions are eroding, and power is becoming more and more centralized. In the U.S., the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States [...]
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They Want to Get Rid of Your Property Taxes Because They Think You are Morons
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Today, the Florida legislature is meeting in a special session to consider oafish brute governor Ron Desantis’s proposal to slash the state’s property taxes. Currently, Florida residents can exempt $50,000 of their primary home’s value from taxation. Desantis, seeking a signature policy win before his term is up at the end of this year, is [...]
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Britain’s local elections in May offered the Left much reason for anxiety. Nigel Farage’s far-right Reform UK swept up over 1,400 new council seats and won outright control of fourteen councils, leapfrogging Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, which is now in free fall. It’s a wearily familiar story across Europe: neoliberal decline, and establishment parties’ meager [...]
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Bangladesh Local Elections: Will the Autumn Polls Revive a Shattered Grassroots Democracy?
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In the wake of the historic July uprising, Bangladesh is undergoing an unprecedented constitutional and administrative transformation. Following the fall of the autocratic regime, the country’s grassroots democratic structure has fallen entirely under bureaucratic control. From rural Union Parishads to sprawling city corporations, state-appointed administrators have replaced elected public representatives. As this institutional vacuum bring..
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As Trump Administration Guts Environmental Regulations, Local Governments Must Protect Wetlands
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The March 30 announcement arrived with the bluntness that has become a hallmark of the Trump administration’s environmental retreat: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has served as the nation’s primary wetland guardian for over half a century, declared that it is “getting out of the business of regulating wetlands.” This followed a seismic shift at [...]
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When I arrive at the new headquarters for Eon Huntley’s socialist campaign for state assembly, a small crew is hard at work painting the space, a storefront on a lively block of Bedford-Stuyvesant’s Tompkins Avenue. The window is festooned with the candidate’s commitments: signs promoting universal health care, rent controls, and “ICE out of NYC.” When [...]
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Despite Climate Policy Setbacks, a Just Transition is Still Within Reach
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The evidence for rapid human-caused climate change keeps piling up, yet the world continues to flood the atmosphere with greenhouse gases amid a political backlash against the struggle for a future free of fossil fuels. Greenhouse gas emissions continue to grow, which means humans are continuing to make the climate crisis worse. Global average temperatures [...]
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Not long ago, I received a request for short answers to some questions meant to prod discussion in a reading group about the book No Bosses. I sent back answers and don’t know what became of them. Perhaps they will be more generally useful. The “back story” is that for some weeks I had been [...]
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Bringing Sexy Back: Victoria's Secret Shoots Higher After Abandoning Woke Ideology
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Bringing Sexy Back: Victoria's Secret Shoots Higher After Abandoning Woke Ideology Shares of Victoria's Secret surged a mind-boggling 40% in the U.S. morning cash session after the bras-and-lingerie retailer delivered a stronger-than-expected first quarter, boosted its outlook, and showed signs of a turnaround plan in motion. Net sales rose 15% to $1.56 billion in the first quarter, beating guidance, while comparable sales increase....
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Where's The Limit By Stefan Koopman, senior market strategist at Rabobank The ancient Greeks left a rich intellectual legacy, as our global strategist Michael Every showed last week in The Hormuz Odyssey . The same fertile ground also produced a famous set of puzzles that have challenged thinkers for centuries. These are the paradoxes of Zeno. In the Dichotomy Paradox, Zeno argued that a runner can never reach the finish line on a s....
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Shocking JOLTS: Job Openings Soar By 731K, 9-Sigma Beat, As Quits Bizarrely Plunge To 6 Year Low
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Shocking JOLTS: Job Openings Soar By 731K, 9-Sigma Beat, As Quits Bizarrely Plunge To 6 Year Low We had to do a double take when the BLS reported today's JOLTS job openings: with consensus expecting no change from last month's print of 6.866MM, and near the lowest in two years, moments ago a flashing red headline revealed that in April the US added a stunning 731K jobs to 7.618 million, up from an upward revised 6.887 million, and up....
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CachyOS ships with a good Linux kernel configuration by default balancing the different features as well as performance. But they also ship a variety of other kernel builds for those preferring a more leading-edge kernel or the current LTS series, a hardened kernel configuration, and more. In this article are some fresh benchmarks of the Arch Linux based CachyOS Linux distribution with some of its main kernel flavors.
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Russia Unleashes Its Threatened Mass Bombardment: At Least 18 Killed, Over 100 Wounded Across Ukraine
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Russia Unleashes Its Threatened Mass Bombardment: At Least 18 Killed, Over 100 Wounded Across Ukraine The Kremlin spent much of the last week warning foreign diplomats and bystanders to evacuate Ukraine's capital, warning that an escalation in airstrikes is imminent, in response to Ukraine's own drone swarms sent against Moscow and other Russian sites last month - especially the Starobelsk dormitory attack . "In response to terrorist ....
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KDE Plasma 6.8 Still Planning To End X11 Support, 95% Of Plasma 6.6 Users Are On Wayland
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KDE developers are sticking to their plans for Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-exclusive in dropping X11 support. Meanwhile it turns out 95% of current Plasma 6.6 users are running already on Wayland...
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Bruce Charlton :: Warning: Proceed With Caution. Joining a Christian church is joining The Totalitarian System
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Someone who is on the side of God the Creator. and who desires to attain the salvation of Jesus Christ. must Proceed With Caution when it comes to joining any formal organization. This is because we inhabit a totalitarian system. meaning that all formal institutions in our society are connected by a multitude of bureaucratic linkages - as was evident in 2020. Both totalitarianism and bureaucracy are intrinsically evil - which means that all....
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Moving in a straight line, in a different way. The post Rotation revisited: Another unidirectional algorithm appeared first on The Old New Thing .
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The cost of the Optimization Treadmill doesn't show up on the database bill. It shows up on the engineering calendar. And it compounds in ways that are easy to miss until someone actually adds it up.
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Tencent Soars Most Since 2022 On Report It's Set To Launch AI Agent For China's Most Used App
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Tencent Soars Most Since 2022 On Report It's Set To Launch AI Agent For China's Most Used App Tencent shares jumped the most since late 2022 after an FT report that the Chinese company was testing a prototype AI agent for WeChat, China’s most widely used app for everything from messaging and social media to ride-hailing and payments, fueled optimism about the company’s artificial intelligence efforts. The Chinese internet giant plan....
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The Linux Kernel Ready To Make TSC A Hard Requirement For x86 CPUs
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Now that the Linux kernel has been removing Intel 486 CPU support and also proceeding to drop other vintage CPUs like the AMD K5 CPU support and AMD Elan, the Linux kernel is ready to make the TSC support unconditional for x86 processors...
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Trump Taps Housing Regulator Bill Pulte As Acting Director Of National Intelligence
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Trump Taps Housing Regulator Bill Pulte As Acting Director Of National Intelligence President Trump said Tuesday that he is appointing Bill Pulte , the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to serve as acting director of national intelligence after Tulsi Gabbard leaves the post. Gabbard announced her resignation on May 22, citing her husband Abraham Williams’ recent diagnosis with....
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