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This book review says that, according to those books, Russian leaders desperately want to be respected. Relatedly, that MAGA guy whose wife got deported said he doesn’t regret voting for Trump. Presumably, that’s because he doesn’t want to lose respect by saying he was wrong. Then, there’s the mom of child dead from measles who said “Don’t do the shots,” my other four kids were fine. That one could be a religious thing, but it’s still a case in which you should expect material conditions to affect decision-making more than pre-seeded mental conditions.Comments
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Twenty minutes on the treadmill, ten pull-ups. I think my foot is back to normal!Comments
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Via Amin, the tale of a team using AI disguises to get through a tech interview process. Their two attempts made it to the final rounds.Comments
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Cambridge City Councilor Paul Toner Charged With Buying Sex Through Brothel RingComments
This is the "common sense" (meaning small c conservative) councilor. (He was also a buddy of my old neighbor that wouldn't do anything about their dog that would bark all the time and jump on kids.) Generally a NIMBY, pro-business, and anti-transparency guy, he was also pro-cop. I'm guessing he would have been anyway, but the brothel was busted in November of 2023, so maybe he was a little extra pro-cop after that.
Mostly, I love that he's been sweating about this for a full year.
I actually have no problem with his soliciting a prostitute as long as everyone was actually consenting and not coerced. But you can bet that he would be speaking out against brothels in a "family community" if it came up before his visits.
I don't know what this will do to his base, who are generally "family values"-lite Whites that just do not want to hear about racial stuff and want the homeless shoved somewhere else. I mean, we have a pathologically lying convicted felon as president. If he sticks around, this could be brought up any time he talks about not wanting some "element" in a neighborhood, but I think the current council is probably too status-quoey to do that. -
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The discovery of human remains, hundreds of shoes and clothes and an apparent clandestine crematorium on what activists called a drug cartel “extermination camp” has become a major scandal for the Mexican government.
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At around 5:00 in this podcast (sorry, Megaphone/Spotify podcasts are fucked up, and it’s hard to get a link to an episode page), Adam Tooze mentions that US military officers are sworn to obey the Constitution, NOT the president. There is something similar in Korea, and it’s what let several top generals ignore Yoon’s martial law order.Comments
In Korea, they are very aware of coups and dictatorships and are ready for them. Here, not really.
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Tech professionals on how they’re coping with Trump’s rapidly shifting immigration changesComments
I hold a green card but my family back in India is worried that if I travel to meet them, I might face difficulty reentering the U.S. My family is even worried about anything I post on my social media.
That is a legit concern. Permanent resident (green card holder) Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and detained, presumably for deportation. Another green card holder was tortured. And customs is searching phones for comments critical of the leader.
I had a son six months ago and we wanted to take him to meet his grandparents in India. Typically, our parents would be excited about it but this time, given the fears around visas and layoffs in Silicon Valley, they asked if they should come to the U.S. because “what if you guys come here and they never let you back in?” -
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Dodge v. Ford is maybe one of a few situations in which Henry Ford is a good guy, sort of. One on hand, he was trying to do a good thing that the shareholders did not want him to do. On the other, if you have a weird legal setup like Facebook in which the CEO is the dictator, then you could end up with a Zuckerberg.Comments
I guess maybe the answer is that organizations shouldn’t be legally blessed to be shareholder value-seeking above all, and no single person should have that much power.
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The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority maintains a HTTP Range Unit Registry. You can download it as a csv.Comments
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In this interview with Joseph Stiglitz, he talks about stuff you probably already know, like Trump not understanding tariffs (I’m not even sure he’s been told that US importers pay US tariffs), but around twenty minutes in, they talk about comparisons between now and the Gilded Age. He points out that this is waaay worse than the Gilded Age.Comments
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I was just listening to Cavalry in Thousands and thinking about how well throat singing and the morin khuur fit into metal and how it was amazing that it happened at all. Rest in peace, Nature G.Comments
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Jamie Raskin has made it easy to file a FOIA request against DOGE, so you can find out which of your records they've looked at. FOIAs can be shrugged off (currently, the MBTA is stalling on mine), but at the least, it will create another little thing for them to deal with.Comments
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