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Senate GOP to Mike Johnson: Seriously, take a border deal
Politico,
James Baldwin’s Anguished Prescience in “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”
The New Yorker,
Reflecting on the civil-rights era in the nineteen-eighties, the author sounds like our contemporary.
Kansas Republicans Are Trying to Pass an Abortion Ban After Kansas Voters Voted Against One
Jezebel,
In 2022, Kansas voters overwhelmingly rejected an anti-abortion ballot measure that attempted to strike the right to abortion from the state Constitution—a right that had been established by a state Supreme Court decision in 2019. Now, Kansas Republicans are openly defying voters: Last week, eight House Republicans… Read more...
Schumer, McConnell sound alarm over looming shutdown fight
An Economics Lesson from Tolstoy
The Russian novelist believed that the dismal science was inescapably suffused with morality and politics.
Bluesky Adds RSS
mjtsai,
Open RSS (via Hacker News): The link to a user’s RSS feed is quite lengthy, making it not so easy to remember, and you can’t really tell which user’s profile an RSS feed is for just by looking at it.[…]So if a user has their posts set to be visible only to logged-in users, you […]
Resolving Trusted Execution Problems
Quinn: If you’re developing software for macOS your goal is to avoid trusted execution entanglements. You want users to install and use your product without taking any special steps. If, for example, you ship an app that’s blocked by Gatekeeper, you’re likely to lose a lot of customers, and your users’ hard-won trust.[…]If you launch […]
Dua Lipa Has Seen All Your Silly Memes
On Tuesday, Rolling Stone unveiled its latest cover star to be none other than Dua Lipa. As per usual, the accompanying story is laden with amusing anecdotes about Margot Robbie’s crush’s deeply relatable thoughts on dating, her curiosity for the macabre, and some scintillating details about her forthcoming album.… Read more...