Xephyr

You look younger and more hale on this platform.

I want to produce 20x20 sheets of thick blue plastic with grommets on the edges, and a giant image of Admiral Akbar filling the space.

Welcome to the Class of Project 2025! A satirical webcomic that hits a little too close to home(room)

The brilliant and talented Rachelle Meyer shares a new web comic where she peers into a not-so-distant future.
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How the Field of Psychology Almost Destroyed the World - UnexaminedGlitch Part 1: Atomic Bombs So long as national States exist and fight each other, only inefficiency can preserve the human race. To improve the fighting quality of separate States without having any means o...

In the context of trying to understand our current swing toward oligarchy, here's a vertical slice through history showing how the pivoting between egalitarianism and oligarchy, all in the best of intentions, have brought us here.

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For anyone who wants to make a difference with the unhoused, learning how to find them and interact with them is vital. Here, reporters are giving advice on how to report on relevant topics, but this same information can be used to coordinate networking and community outreach.

We're having a hard time here with things we can't change. Reading the news is torment. Catastrophizing is so easy. I hope for the best and try to release expectations. Virtual hugs!

I wonder if the passenger list of that DC commuter flight has any of Twitler's enemies on it?

What happened to the Senate? Did all those guys lose their balls or what? It's like they've all forgotten their jobs.

Licence to swill: James Bond’s drinking over six decades Bond should seek professional help and find alternatives to drinking for managing on-the-job stress

"Conclusions: James Bond has a severe chronic alcohol problem. He should consider seeking professional help and find other strategies for managing on-the-job stress."
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Did a Private Equity Fire Truck Roll-Up Worsen the L.A. Fires? During the LA fires, dozens of fire trucks sat in the boneyard, waiting for repairs the city couldn't afford. Why? A private equity roll-up made replacing and repairing those trucks much pricier.

Monopolies have been an increasing problem in the US. Here's an example with fire trucks, but the principle is repeated with nearly everything we use. www.thebignewsletter.com/p/did-a-priv...

"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen."

— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

It is immoral to tax the incomes of those dependent on welfare.

How do I make sure the things I do don't help fascists?

How Rape Kits Debunked Junk Science Like Behavioral Profiling In her new book, The Secret History of the Rape Kit, Pagan Kennedy charts the history of how it changed how law enforcement understands and investigates sexual assault.

Sociologist Rachel Lovell and her colleagues published studies that revealed that the FBI’s methods of detecting dangerous rapists and killers had been wildly off target and based on junk science.
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Luca is the progenitor of all life on Earth. But its genesis has implications far beyond our planet New research into the single-celled organism is providing clues about what the early planet looked like – and raising the prospect that we may not be alone in the universe

Consider the possibility that the development of life in the universe happens everywhere, all the time.

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It is immoral to profit on the misfortune of others.

It is immoral to place profit over lives.

It is immoral to profit on the illness of others.

Once I imagined Batman was more realistic than Superman, but today I'd sooner bet on Adonis from another star saving us before a billionaire cared about a stranger.

New study suggests that dark energy is an illusion A new study argues that we've got it all wrong. The authors argue that dark energy doesn't exist.

Dark energy -- is it just an illusion?

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Humans may not have survived without Neanderthals A new DNA analysis has shown that the arrival of modern humans from Africa was far from smooth.

Here's another clue that we should be honoring the contributions of our Neanderthal ancestors, not imagining that they were inferior to us in some way.

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