What’s even crazier is that there is a clear political story behind all of this. The 1980 Judicial Conduct and Disability Act, signed by Jimmy Carter, gave judges the power to police themselves through an obfuscated multi-layer system where chief judges dismiss almost all the complaints and judicial councils choose confidential sanctions in most of the cases where they even admit wrongdoing occurred.
“500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians. […] Europe today lacks the belief that we are truly a global force.”
“whose site the NYT calls “independent,” is actually being bankrolled by… George Soros”. Real shocker!
In 2014, Senator Chris Murphy bragged about the United States successfully overthrowing Ukraine’s government: “I think it was our role, including sanctions and threats of sanctions, that forced, in part, Yanukovych from office.”
Because the G7 is in relative decline. Until you understand this, you’ll be confused.
They were also incredibly beautiful. Another import that had become available in the wake of World War II was incense cedar, the material of choice for high-quality pencils. Most of the pencil industry’s incense cedar comes from California, and Tombow quickly restarted its imports of the aromatic red wood. HOMO’s design takes full advantage of the material upgrade, with a subtle transparent lacquer that highlights the cedar’s color and grain.
Restaurants with very many neighbor nodes (nodes connected to it) are restaurants whose alumni go on to create and work in other prestigious restaurants. This is the case of Ducasse (ok, not a restaurant but a placeholder for all the restaurants in the Ducasse brand), Mandarin Oriental (technically the restaurant is called Sur Mesure) or Septime. To visualize and analyse this network, I combine information contained in reviews of restaurants across France by LeFooding.com’s critics. Most reviews contain information about the staff and their CV.
Sigma is the closest thing we have to that. Their disclosure that they can only make nine (!) of their new bf cameras a day is the way things should work. That’s probably about 2500 cameras a year when all is said and done.
the Bifurcation of the Global System along two centers of power with their alternative supply chains, critical infrastructure and networks. You may not want to see it but it’s there.
I was thrilled to learn that, like me, Wolfe was an only child, wound up getting a doctorate in American studies, hated stuffy institutional rules, ignored boring injunctions to “write what you know,” and took a big pay cut to buy himself more freedom. Alas, the similarities ended there. His style was fresh, bold, and inimitable (Lord knows we all tried). As a kid, he had longed to be related to Thomas Wolfe, to have that literary pedigree. Alas, the connection was only a phonetic coincidence, so he satisfied himself by stealing literary devices and sneaking them into journalism.
AI search engines and AI summaries on results pages are taking a bite out of clickthrough traffic.
As promised,Here are the Bingo Cards for @ChicagosMayor ‘s testimony tomorrow. These are all HIS words . No prize if you win but save your card and send it into City Hall to demand his immediate resignation.
Interestingly, AI workstations have been one of the strongest categories in the PC industry. A LOT of AI software is developed on Macs. Mac Studio with M3 Ultra will position itself nicely in AI workstation. Also, most RAM ever given to a GPU in a workstation!
Out of 12,000 North Korean soldiers sent to Russia to fight against Ukraine, only two have been captured alive. They have recently been telling their stories to American and South Korean journalists, providing a unique perspective on the war.
Perhaps the single most important thing they could build would be mass-produced Tesla humanoids, which (if successful) could in turn build everything else.
“It’s quite evident that we’re being governed by idiots in Ottawa… there’s a number of us in Alberta that have had enough.”
And if “amateurs talk about strategy, but experts think about logistics”, SpaceX has created exactly what’s needed.
So many commentators are stunned that Democrats are clinging to the idea of boys in girls’ sports, even though the idea is opposed by 82% of the public, and they are equally stunned that Democrats more broadly make the transgender movement a central component of their policy agenda, despite popular opposition.
We’re going to put an action plan on those things, and I think they’re going to be brutal to leadership, quite frankly,” Ortberg added.
About half of the US population does not own any retirement assets, see chart below.
Denmark’s state-run postal service, PostNord, is to end all letter deliveries at the end of 2025, citing a 90% decline in letter volumes since the start of the century. The decision brings to an end 400 years of the company’s letter service. Denmark’s 1,500 post boxes will start to disappear from the start of June.
Great software design looks simple because it eliminates as many failure modes as possible during the design stage. The best way to eliminate a failure mode is to notdo something exciting (or if you can, not do anything at all). Not all failure modes are created equal. You want to try hardest to eliminate the really scary ones (like data inconsistency), even if it means making slightly clunky choices elsewhere.
Sobering facts but all is not lost. The Houthis are not ten feet tall and can be defeated cost effectively. Just like the intervention done in 1965 by David Stirling and his team, give the private sector a chance. This can be solved for less money than Egypt loses per month in Suez fees. ($800m)
Among the findings: the research estimates the median YouTube video has been watched just 41 times mostly by machines.