the activists and left-leaning media members were in town for a private meeting to discuss how the left’s well-funded digital media ecosystem failed in the 2024 election.

I spent two years following Barrows and some of those she calls her “clients”  to better understand what it takes to unstick someone who’s been stuck on the streets — or in a park – for a long time. A welter of problems can make someone chronically homeless: addiction, mental illness, disabilities, trauma, poverty, not to mention failures of the system. None are easily or quickly solved, even after the person is housed. To do more than just clear a person off the sidewalk demands persistence, patience, coordination of services, and intense personal engagement. Which raises the difficult question: If this is what it takes to help one person, can the city find the resolve to help the thousands living rough? 

Your enjoyment of a trip will be inversely related to the weight of your luggage. Counterintuitively, the longer your trip, the less stuff you should haul. Travelers still happy on a 6-week trip will only have carry-on luggage. That maximizes your flexibility, enabling you to lug luggage up stairs when there is no elevator, or to share a tuk-tuk, to pack and unpack efficiently, and to not lose stuff. Furthermore, when you go light you intentionally reduce what you take in order to increase your experience of living. And the reality of today is that you can almost certainly buy whatever you are missing on the road.

In this op-ed, AI researcher Louis Rosenberg argues that as conversational AI agents become more interactive and personalized, they will surpass human influencers in their ability to shape our decisions without us realizing it.

The reason, according to multiple sources at the agency when the Gateway was conceived, is that the lunar space station would offer jobs to the current flight controllers operating the International Space Station, which is due to retire in 2030.

Wahlin purchased the remaining assets of a small, bankrupt business in 1961 and founded Stoughton Trailers. Over the course of the next four decades, the company became one of North America’s largest trailer manufacturers.

Generators are installed to protect WPR’s systems for backup when they lose utility power and when those generators attempted to kick in, the transfer switch that transfers from utility power to generator power failed, Hargrove said.

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Option four and five are likely the only answers in the long term. A lot of companies are doing RTO, but even companies that are 100% in-office still interview candidates from other cities. Spending money to fly every candidate out without an aggressive pre-screen is too wasteful. One of the things we can do, however, is change the nature of the interviews themselves. Coding interviews today are quite basic, anywhere from FizzBuzz, to building a calculator. With AI assistants, we could expand this 10x and have people build complete applications. I think a single, longer interview (2 hours) that mixes architecture and coding will probably be the way to go.

Additionally, if your employer will sign off on you working in Spain, Spain has a 1 year digital nomad visa, renewable every year. After five years, you can apply for permanent residency. If you apply while in Spain on a tourist visa, it’s good for 3 years (one renewal gets you to permanent residency).

When the peace was finally won in 1991, the minor functionaries started hatching new villains, disputes, and even viruses just so they could fight them. Washington turned into a Cold War LARP. The result:  Ukraine is destroyed. The Taliban is governing Afghanistan and ISIS has taken Syria. The pipeline that supplies Germany’s energy supply has been blown up, tanking its economy. And you know what happened last time the West’s guardian of democracy project tanked the German economy. Just sayin’. Ancient Christianity has been expelled from every place in the Middle East where American soft power has meddled. They have set their sights on destroying Catholic-Lebanon (by law, the president of Lebanon must be Catholic – did you know that?) in a proxy war with Iran.

In the winter, Yosemite has 451 people directly employed by the National Park Service, according to government records. In the summer, it has 741. But they fired the only locksmith. Grand Canyon National Park has 382. But they couldn’t find anyone to work the most popular entrance. This is intentional infliction of harm on the public in order to gin up opposition to staffing cuts.

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The most striking aspect of this situation is that every major branch of the U.S. military is in crisis at the same time. All major branches are struggling with recruitment and retention targets, and the problem is particularly acute for the Army and the Navy. All major branches have serious sustainment and maintenance issues due to a combination of aging equipment and general rust inside the industrial base. All major branches are arguably also facing real problems trying to adapt and update institutionalized twenthieth-century thinking to experiences from twenty-first century battlefields (though the Marine Corps is at least undergoing a serious and controversial restructuring in an attempt to alleviate this). Looming over all of this, of course, is the big elephant in the room: the budget contraints resulting from America’s massive fiscal deficts. Interest payments on the federal debt are devouring an increasing share of total federal revenues with each passing year. America is already running a World War II–style wartime fiscal deficit in what is officially a peacetime, near-full-employment economy. Though it’s a common refrain to bemoan waste and fraud inside the DoD budget, the simple reality is that a fifty-plus-year-old aircraft carrier hull like the USS Nimitz cannot be maintained forever. The carrier, just like every other military platform, requires somewhat regular replacement due to mechanical wear and tear over time.¹ The U.S. military now has a massive backlog of such aging platforms, and there is simply not enough money to replace them.

I used to work at FICO in the behavior scoring division and this kind of transaction pattern would have totally flipped the fraud switch. So, the question is, do they have their own processing and if so, it should be terminated due to fraud. If not, who are they using, and why aren’t they reporting and stopping the fraud? AND how many of these transactions resulted in a charge back? If not many, then smurfs were used for names but not credit card numbers, so whose numbers were used, and if it was their name, what account was attached…. This should be one of @Kash_Patel first investigations. If we want to clean up elections before midterms we need to get all this unravelled and get back to individual human citizens supporting individual human candidates and that is all.

While America is battling exhaustion and political polarization at home, it is now facing something it’s never faced abroad: it is locked into a security competition against multiple opponents who, when taken together, are in fact vastly superior to America in terms of industrial capacity. This on its own would be an incredibly tough row to hoe, even at the best of times. The times, however, are not particularly good: the U.S. military currently finds itself in a state of acute crisis, beset by a number of intractable problems that neither the political nor military leadership have been able to solve. The most striking aspect of this situation is that every major branch of the U.S. military is in crisis at the same time. All major branches are struggling with recruitment and retention targets, and the problem is particularly acute for the Army and the Navy. All major branches have serious sustainment and maintenance issues due to a combination of aging equipment and general rust inside the industrial base. All major branches are arguably also facing real problems trying to adapt and update institutionalized twenthieth-century thinking to experiences from twenty-first century battlefields (though the Marine Corps is at least undergoing a serious and controversial restructuring in an attempt to alleviate this).

To put it bluntly, the military was given a deeply ideological mission, one that would assuredly result both in failure and damage to or destruction of limited logistical assets. Military leadership, knowing which side their bread was actually buttered on, complied: the mission duly failed, and the limited equipment was damaged and destroyed.