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Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 10:16am
This year, Kurzgesagt celebrates 10 years of making videos on YouTube and to mark the occasion, they’ve produced this video about their history, how their business works (their shop accounts for a large chunk of their revenue), and the values that guide their work.
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 10:04am
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 8:20am
An Israeli protester shouts during an anti-reform demonstration in Tel Aviv, Israel, on March 25, 2023.
Photo: Matan Golan/Sipa via AP Images
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 7:48am
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 6:46am
Derrick Miller, a former U.S. Army National Guard sergeant who spent eight years in prison for murdering an Afghan civilian in 2010, now serves as a legislative assistant covering military policy for Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz.
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 6:45am
[Yesterday I spent all day answering reader questions for the inaugural Kottke.org Ask Me Anything. One of them asked my opinion of the current crop of AI tools and I thought it was worth reprinting the whole thing here. -j]
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 6:30am
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 6:30am
Billionaire Howard Schultz, the anti-union architect of Starbucks, will testify today on allegations that the company has been breaking labor laws — and Sen. Bernie Sanders, a mascot of the union movement, will question him.https://t.co/xRlYgSY3wy
— NPR (@NPR) March 29, 2023
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 6:07am
This One Thing Would Increase Wages By $300 Billion
There’s a dirty trick many employers use to keep workers from getting a better job.
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 5:20am
First Things describes itself as “America’s most influential journal of religion and public life.” You might...
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 5:20am
The primary social forces disrupting American society today are modern versions of two false religions.
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 4:58am
The Liberal party is broken. Riven by ideological differences, petty personal feuds and bitter factional disputes, the party which once dominated the Australian political landscape so completely, is today uncertain of what it stands for and incapable of working it out. After suffering yet another electoral rout on the weekend, which saw the sole mainland Continue reading »
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 4:57am
A controversy threatens to blow the alliance’s nuclear submarine deal out of the water, writes Maddison Connaughton in a new article for Foreign Policy. In the wake of Paul Keating’s dramatic foray into the debate over the Aukus defence pact, much of the breathless media coverage zeroed in on his personal criticisms of Prime Minister Continue reading »
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 4:56am
At first sight, the Chinese President’s twelve proposals to achieve peace between Russia and Ukraine appear plausible. Claims about common interests are supported by references to parties working together for peace and security, abiding by international humanitarian law, sustaining an existing world economic system and insisting that nuclear weapons not be used. These sound like Continue reading »
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 4:55am
The fact that the IPCC incorporates in its core business risks of failure to the Earth system and to human civilisation that we would not accept in our own lives raises fundamental questions about the efficacy of the whole IPCC project. If low risks of failure are taken as a starting point, “net zero 2050” Continue reading »
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 4:54am
The media here thought the terrorism over past decades in Australia fell from the deep blue sky and had no relationship to the help John Howard gave to George Bush in the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq. Twenty years after that invasion, the Australian media continue to fail us badly over its coverage of Continue reading »
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 4:53am
The biggest threat facing the USA is not the collapse of democracy. Even though a twice impeached former president talks of death and destruction if he is arrested, while New York’s Attorney General seeks his indictment. Wokeism isn’t the biggest threat, although, due to death threats to staff, the Florida Education Department is cancelling the Continue reading »
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 4:52am
Early this month, the Daily Mail published a story online implying three Chinese men taking photos at the Avalon Airshow in Melbourne were spies. After complaints and an open letter condemning the paper for racially profiling the Chinese communities and throwing around baseless accusations, the story disappeared from the Mail’s site without explanation. Then, The Sydney Morning Continue reading »
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 4:51am
In the face of the shocking anti-trans and neo-Nazi rally last Saturday in Melbourne, it’s a time for solidarity – visible solidarity with those we love and all who walk with them. Show your support by joining me at 5.30pm Friday, March 31st at the State Library, Melbourne. Let’s reclaim the streets together. Dear friends, Continue reading »
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 4:20am
Doctor Who 60th-anniversary directors Chanya Button, Tom Kingsley & Rachel Talalay had some thoughts to share about the new TARDIS look.
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 4:12am
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 4:00am
“Twitter users will need a ‘verified account’ to get recommended on the platform’s For You page starting on April 15th, according to a Monday evening tweet from CEO Elon Musk. Given that Twitter has promised to start dismantling the ‘legacy’ verified system at the beginning of April, that appears to mean that you’ll have to be a company, government entity, or Twitter Blue subscriber if you want to pop into the feeds of people who don’t follow you.” — The Verge
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Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 3:45am
from Lars Syll In a recent essay titled “What Economists (Including Me) Got Wrong About Globalization,” adapted from a forthcoming book on inequality, Krugman writes that he and other mainstream economists “missed a crucial part of the story” in failing to realize that globalization would lead to “hyperglobalization” and huge economic and social upheaval, particularly of the […]
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 3:40am
Last week, we released the latest State of Working America Wages Report, which highlighted historically fast real wage growth for low-wage workers between 2019 and 2022. Even after taking into account higher inflation, the 10th percentile hourly wage grew 9.0% over that three-year period, significantly faster than at an equivalent point from any other business cycle peak in recent history.
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 3:22am
The top two comments on YouTube sum this trailer for Asteroid City up pretty well: “Just when you don’t think it can get more Wes Anderson, it gets more Wes Anderson.” and “You know a Wes Anderson movie is a Wes Anderson movie, but you can’t really describe a Wes Anderson movie to someone who has never seen a Wes Anderson movie.” Here’s the synopsis:
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 3:00am
Fox is NOT a journalistic entity, it’s a political operation.
A person working for a PAC wouldn’t get congressional press credentials, but Fox does.
It’s time to revoke the congressional press credentials for anybody from #Fox.
I’m happy Marcy started the conversation. I want to move it forward. I think that de-credentialing should be one result following the resolution of the Dominion case in favor of Dominion.
Why Bother To Revoke Fox’s Credentials?
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 2:57am
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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I mean really when was the last time you met a self-cloning species that tries to learn to play guitar?
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Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 2:30am
.@FOP7Chicago President John Catanzara tells @jonathanweisman of the @nytimes that 800 to 1,000 Chicago Police officers will resign if @Brandon4Chicago is elected mayor & there will be “blood in the streets.”
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 2:09am
Earlier this week, I was at a meeting to discuss the question whether my university should cut its ties with the fossil industry, or else impose additional conditions on working with partners from fossil industries. There was quite some agreement that the university should think hard about spelling out and endorsing a moral framework, and based on those values and moral principles work out what (if any) forms of collaboration would remain legitimate in the future. This led our vice-chancellor to ask the question what else such moral framework would imply for university staff.
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 2:05am
“Any attempt to raise said hand would result in excruciating, unbearable pain,” the note from the Fox News host’s orthopedist said.
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 1:54am
Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — Donald Trump — facing four government-run investigations, three criminal and one civil, targeting himself and his business — is not being targeted because of his crimes. Nearly every serious crime he is accused of carrying out has been committed by his political rivals.
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 1:44am
While this post is specific to Australia, the reasons for the recent spike in "inflation" are not unique to Australia. The inflation that is now turning out to be transitory was not the result of a wage-price spiral as central bank models assume. Rather, it was a consequence of supply shocks owing to the pandemic followed by sanctions in response to the conflict in Ukraine. Now that supply chains are beginning to function again or have been replaced or substituted, the inflation metrics are falling, as economists like Bill that were predicting transitory inflation had argued.
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 1:30am
“any reasonable method to promote peace”
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 1:30am
I don't assume all younger people have Atrios-approved politics, but I do know red state politicians are trying very hard to make their states uninhabitable for them. Not abnormal for some young people to want to flee wherever they are from, but these politicians are ensuring it.
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 1:04am
Judged by the course of events of the last century, rather by the avowed aim of Mill and Marx, there is much for reversing the stereotyped roles assigned to the two men. If collectivism ultimately triumphs over individualism, it will be in no small measure a result of the influence of the ideas first popularized and made respectable by Mill; whereas, if individualism ultimately triumphs, it will be in no small measure a result of the ultimate effects of the belief in revolutionary action to which Marx and Engels gave such vivid expression in the Manifesto…
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 1:00am
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 12:27am
Seventy-five years ago, Nuremberg prosecutor David Maxwell Fyfe – an artisan of the European Convention on Human Rights – spoke in Brussels of his fear that the high ideals of the victors would be forgotten. His grandson explores why his legacy matters now more than ever
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 12:25am
Starmeroid Praful Nargun, who runs chain of private clinics with his gynaecologist mother, wants Islington North parliamentary seat
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 12:20am
The Home Secretary's tabloid-pleasing plans to float desperate refugees offshore are designed to distract from the Government's own failings, reports Adam Bienkov
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Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 12:00am
I do my best not to pretend I am the official micromanager of The Democrats, but national Dems have been, generally, a bit too quiet on what are erroneously dubbed "culture war" issues lately.
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 12:00am
In her eleventh book of poetry, Brenda Hillman has given us an expansive lyric—I want to say epic—of our times. The result: gorgeous and subtle, and the work of a poet at the height of her powers. In a Few Minutes Before Later is part of a sequence of books by the poet that take as their subject the nature of time, and our lives in its hold. Her last book, Extra Hidden Life, Among the Days took the day as its preoccupation, and this one measures our existence in minutes, which is to say it’s concerned with a certain kind of moment, a certain urgency, a certain fleeting eternity.
Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 12:00am
That book is banned, comrade