Plaintiff NetChoice, a trade association whose members operate many of the largest social media platforms, sued defendant Yost in his capacity as Ohio’s Attorney General. It challenged…

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Councils across Melbourne have united to get the State Government to add bus services and improve networks. This comes in the form of a resolution from the Municipal Association of Victoria passed by…

Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs has vetoed a bill which would have ended the state&#8217;s compliance with the Federal REAL-ID Act. Like many other states, Arizona gives applicants for driver&#8217;s…

Charlie Haden: Books, Pt. 16Charlie Haden: Books, Pt. 16. Charlie&rsquo;s early days at Westlake School of Music; plus the Spanish Civil War, Victor Jara, Sandinistas, and more.

The greatest power is invisibility

ON THIS DAY &#8211; June 24 This day is actually one of the more awful days in the history of the Supreme Court,&#8230;

For most of human history, money was something tangible. You could hold it in your hand, hide it in your home, carry it across a border, lend it to a friend, or spend it without creating a permanent…

For anyone who still wants to pretend that the grouse shooting industry isn’t responsible for the systematic extermination of Hen Harriers on grouse moors across the UK, here’s the latest catalogue…

THANK YOU NEW YORK VOTERS FOR SEEING THROUGH THE GASLIGHTING “VOTING YOUR CONSCIENCE IS UNREALISTIC” SAYS THE DEMOCRAT WHO JUST LOST “THE WORD SOCIALISM SCARES THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS” SAYS THE…

Last year, one guy made an observation about some Americans' descent into a tribal, impulsive mindset that steamrolls over civility and reason. I think he's on to something.

This is really a posting about sea level rise. However, to segue into it I will open with some recent news from Trump&#8217;s war on renewable energy. To be specific, this news as reported by various…

There is a strand of thought out there that believes any and all legislation to do with seeds is evil and unnecesary. It is wrong. Here’s why. This is not the sunflower we were looking for This…

In his response to Casey Spinks, John Fea objects to a “textualist” approach to the Declaration of Independence. Fea wants something “more nuanced: an approach that takes the document’s original…

Cabinet government is beautifully malleable. How do individuals bend it to their will?

It is just over a month since the last round of state assembly elections ended, but we are already back in election mode. The two-and-a-half years left before the next round of general elections are…

Not my Congressional district but it’s really good to see him landing a new job tonight. [Quoted post]

The trillionaires built AGI and told it: &#8220;Solve the world&#8217;s problems.&#8221; It thought for 0.413 seconds and said: &#8220;Step one &#8211; remove all trillionaires and most…

**Regularly UPDATED**   Reflecting on the Russo-Ukraine War, I am putting together a timeline of the most relevant…

Caveat lector This post discusses tools reluctantly written with AI assistance. If you don&rsquo;t entertain using them under any circumstance, and think even reading about them legally compromise…

I started a company in Germany in late January. By late June I had spent 9,600 euros, registered two companies, and still cannot issue a single invoice of my own. Here is the timeline, with the bill…

في آخر زياراتي لحلب في أواخر ٢٠١٠، كان الربيع العربي في تونس ومصر على أوجه. اجتمع المصريون في ميدان التحرير في القاهرة مطالبين بإسقاط النظام. كنت يومئذ في حلب، عند الحلاق، منتظرا دوري ونشاهد الأخبار…

Structuring International Governance Through the Space of Concerns

We’ve been covering the story of how a single phone call between two drama queen grown men - Josh Johnson and Officer Tonga of the American Fork Police Department - somehow escalated into a worldwide…

Kant writes: only three [forms of sovereignty] are possible: namely, either only one , or some in association, or all those together who constitute the civil society possess sovereign power (…

I always meant to have some major epic planned for today&rsquo;s post, but alas. What I have instead are some shorter, compartmentalised thoughts on the whole debacle. Why Brexit? There&rsquo;s a…

White Supremacy Is Monetized in America. The Receipts Are Overwhelming.A woman walks into a public store, tells two Muslim customers they are not welcome in &#x201C;a Christian country,&#x201D; gets…

I wrote about J.D. Vance&apos;s new book for The Nation. Anyone who knows me knows I dislike politicians magically transforming into good ol&apos; boys when it&apos;s politically advantageous.…

When Elon Musk calls to imprison the government, it turns out not to matter very much. But when thousands of accounts repeat each other, it matters enormously.

Patrick Boyle on the repercussions of the U.S. government’s shutdown of Anthropic’ flagship AI models on June 12: For years, the theory was that building artificial intelligence required Silicon…

Here's Byrne Hobart at The Diff , writing about the existence of a trillionaire : It was inevitable that this would happen. 2% real GDP growth, 3% inflation, a 5% or so equity risk premium, some…

and my faith is americans is that much smaller now two days ago, jubilee released a video of dean withers debating women who are part of the "maga" movement. i don't typically watch jubilee videos. i…

I spoke to Rohan Pike, the founder of the Australian Border Force’s Tobacco Strike Team, about his country’s black market tobacco nightmare. 80% of the market is illegal, tobacco tax revenue is down…

the report is here completed the tasks described in the three conditions, around governance of their board different than demonstrating sustained improvement will have additional governance…

In late December 2015, Otto Warmbier boarded a flight to a place most people only understand through headlines—North Korea. A 21-year-old college student from Ohio, Otto wasn’t a journalist or a spy.…

backup is here ; public comment summary is here ; redline is here Martinez notes there's no money attached to this strategic about what is in regs; "want to be nimble" "not intended to create a…

Discover why KYC for everything isn't the answer. It burdens the innocent, fuels surveillance, and doesn't stop bad actors.

News of socialism on the march comes daily. For example, 50 percent of Democrats view it favorably. It&#8217;s actually worse than that, because the energy in the party clearly comes from socialist…

A generational opportunity to bridge the digital divide was hijacked by Republicans and converted into a giant slush fund for the country's richest technofascists.

UK Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer has resigned and intends to leave office before the parliamentary summer recess. By then Andy Burnham will more than likely be voted leader of the Labour Party and…

Brad Gorman&rsquo;s ARIN workshop laid out where routing security stands today, ROAs you can trust, ASPA shipping, BGPSec quietly retired. The takeaway that morning was that origin validation works,…

The story of post-revolutionary Iran has been one of missed opportunities and of a government betraying its people, explain the authors of a new history of the period

Many visiting European novelists wrote disparaging things about America. Georges Duhamel (1884-1966), author of&#160;America, the Menace, was probably the meanest of the French writers. The harshest…

People in the West frequently complain of the state of politics, be it so-called "late-stage capitalism", critical failures of border policy, problems with the setup of government, local issues of…

Preface. Almost all environmental stories in the media are about greenhouse gases. Yet there are dozens of others in the meta/polycrisis and existential boundaries (Rockström 2009). Overpopulation is…

Ο Μαρκ Ρούτε, ο πρώην πρωθυπουργός της Ολλανδίας και νυν γενικός γραμματέας του ΝΑΤΟ, πρόσφατα άφησε να διαρρεύσει μια αλήθεια που προκάλεσε αναταραχή σε ολόκληρη την Ευρώπη. Περιέγραψε τη Συμμαχία…

This is a US research ecosystem post. Feel free to skip if this isn't your cup of tea. I'm showing my internet age in thinking that the right image to put at the top of this post is either the Drudge…

The Middle East is a mess. Right now, tensions between the US, Israel, and Iran are skyrocketing. And as someone on the Left, I wanted to talk about some facts. Now, whatever one’s critique of Iran’s…

A day of events organised by the Transformative Justice Collective this weekend!