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Economist Paul Krugman – Substack: “Last week was a scary time in U.S. financial markets, and the danger may not be over. I’m not talking about stocks, whose fluctuations often tell us nothing at all. What had me and others rattled were developments in bond and currency markets. Interest rates on long-term government debt rose …
404 Media: “Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning to bring together data from a wide variety of other U.S. government agencies, including the Department of Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to make a centralized database to identify immigration targets, …
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“Schedule F is an executive order that former President Donald Trump issued in October 2020 to remove the employment protections that prevent career government employees from being replaced for partisan reasons. It was rescinded by President Joe Biden as soon as he took office in January 2021. If Schedule F were to be reinstated, the …
MW Metadata normal grabs singular details about a YouTube video and its uploader, playlist and its creator, or channel. Submit a link or id to a video, playlist, or channel. After each submission: Click here to see detailed property descriptions; the playlist submitted, click here to see detailed property descriptions. The video author, playlist creator, …
BoingBoing: “The Department of Justice recently sent letters to perhaps “tens” of scientific journals, accusing them of being “partisan” and asking whether they are including “competing viewpoints.” One such letter went to the journal CHEST, a peer-reviewed journal published by the American College of Chest Physicians that specializes in research focused on chest and diseases, …
The New Yorker [no paywall] – “…Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs…Putin and Trump are both, in fact, fascists. And their use of the word, though meant to confuse, …
Setting the Record Straight About ADHD and Its Treatments “Since its publication last Sunday, The New York Times Magazine article “Have We Been Thinking About ADHD All Wrong?” has been called provocative and controversial. We would like to add a few adjectives: misrepresentative, biased, and dangerous.” ADDitude Magazine rebuts the article, as does Dr Russell …
Washington Post [no paywall]: “”The man behind the most influential progressive account on social media starts his days at 6 a.m. in front of three TV and computer screens, scanning video feeds for the gaffes and confrontations that can turn into viral gold.Acyn Torabi isn’t a Democratic star like former president Barack Obama or a …
FT.com [no paywall]: “Much ink has been spilt and many keys pressed to figure out whether AI is a bubble. Just last month, OpenAI’s ersatz Ghibli took X by storm. A “big net win for society”, as head honcho Sam Altman described it, and for the “democratisation of creating content” which Hayao Miyazaki and other …
