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The Github Action I added to my blog to run at the start of every month worked. I added it because I got blocked again by Github last month, this time apparently for using hundreds of GB-hours (whatever that is) of storage even though I am using literally the smallest amount of storage possible . One of the cool things about running a static site website , is I can continue to write offline and sync it back up when I get online again.....
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Venezuela Oil Exports Hit 7-Year High Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, Venezuela’s oil exports inched up from April to hit a fresh seven-year high in May as shipments to the United States and India continued to rise. Venezuela exported an estimated 1.25 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil in May, up by 0.7% compared to April’s 1.23 million bpd exports and a massive 61% jump compared to May 2025, accordin....
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Shake Shack Gets Smoked After Cutting Guidance Shake Shack plunged on Tuesday , hitting its lowest levels since November 2023, after the burger chain slashed second-quarter guidance only about a month after issuing it. Baird analyst David Tarantino said the new outlook is viewed as " incrementally negative " for Shake Shack. Tarantino noted that management had set an " unusually high bar" for 2Q comparable performance with its pr....
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Microsoft today announced their newest open-source creation... Under the MIT license it's the Intelligent Terminal...
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Pentagon Restricts Press Office Access Over Privacy Concerns Via American Greatness, The Pentagon announced Monday that reporters will no longer have open access to the War Department’s public affairs office after the space was redesignated as a classified facility to accommodate staff handling sensitive material. The announcement marks the latest effort by the Pete Hegseth-led War Department to tighten operational securit....
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HSBC Warns Of Commodity "Super-Squeeze" As Goldman Hikes Copper Forecasts
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HSBC Warns Of Commodity "Super-Squeeze" As Goldman Hikes Copper Forecasts Copper is inching closer to its mid-May all-time high of $14,153 a ton on the London Metal Exchange, trading around $13,832 on Tuesday morning, as Goldman raised its year-end price targets and HSBC warned that commodities face a "super-squeeze" with the Hormuz maritime chokepoint still largely shuttered in early June. Let's begin with HSBC analysts, who wrote i....
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Get step-by-step instructions on how to delete your ChatGPT account, cancel your subscription, and export your data.
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State Department Issues Travel Advisory For Mexico Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The State Department updated its travel advisory for Mexico on May 29, continuing to warn Americans who plan on visiting the country to be wary of terrorism and crimes. “Many violent crimes take place in Mexico. They include homicide, kidnapping, carjacking, sexual assault, and robbery. There is a risk of terrorist violence, i....
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Short-Seller Andrew Left Found Guilty In High-Profile Market Manipulation Jury Trial
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Short-Seller Andrew Left Found Guilty In High-Profile Market Manipulation Jury Trial Andrew Left, the founder of Citron Research and a well-known figure in the short-selling community, was convicted on 13 of 17 counts following a three-week federal trial in Los Angeles , according to Bloomberg . Prosecutors alleged that between 2018 and 2023, Left used public stock recommendations and social media posts to influence market prices whi....
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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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