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Florida embraces new urbanist mega-developments A pending bill in the Florida Legislature would make the process of building new planned communities far easier

Regional culture report: "Florida is arguably the nation's leader in master-planned mini-utopias."

DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin to leave Trump administration The move comes as public opinion has turned on the administration’s hardline immigration policies.

In a city famous for dishonesty, she still managed to stand out. Follow your dreams!

Why Bad Bunny’s halftime show delighted New York Jews of a certain age The Jewish love affair with Latin music and ‘Nueva Yol’ dates back to mambo dancing in the Catskills and stories of a shared diaspora.

"And there was the Borscht Belt. Starting in the 1950s, the big hotels typically maintained two house bands: one for mainstream pop, and the other for all Latin..."

RIP Jesse Jackson, who I'm pretty sure I voted for in one high-school mock election or another. If you've never read Paul Cowan's profile of him—written in the '70s, when Jackson was seen as a socially conservative figure—I recommend it highly. It's collected in here: www.amazon.com/Tribes-Ameri...

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Exclusive: Pentagon warns Anthropic will "pay a price" as feud escalates The Pentagon may label Anthropic a "supply chain risk," forcing all its vendors to sever ties.

"Anthropic is prepared to loosen its current terms of use, but wants to ensure its tools aren't used to spy on Americans en masse, or to develop weapons that fire with no human involvement. The Pentagon claims that's unduly restrictive..."

Frederick Wiseman, RIP. Here's an interview I did with him back in 2007, when TITICUT FOLLIES turned 40: reason.com/2007/11/16/l... If I remember correctly, he answered my questions on his cellphone while pulled over to the side of the highway.

Trump is losing the working class A multiracial working-class coalition, if you can keep it

"one of the biggest new sources of Trump disapproval is lower-income whites—a group that gave him over 60% of the vote in 2024"

YouTube video by YouTube Movies The Apostle

That image is from THE APOSTLE, which Duvall wrote and directed in addition to starring in. One of his best roles, and one of the best movies of the '90s.

Robert Duvall, RIP

A.I.'s pandemic moment A new hype epicycle reaches its climax

"I always hated this implication—the strange, quasi-religious deadline of 'A.G.I.,' or the forlorn hope for an Emperor's New Clothes moment finally revealing A.I. for a sham."

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Watch Universal Language | Prime Video In a mysterious and surreal interzone somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg, the lives of multiple characters interweave with each other in surprising and mysterious ways.

I've only gradually come to realize that Winnipeg Absurdism is a whole genre.

The world’s rich are relocating at a pace unseen in history — where are they going? The movement of the world's richest families across borders is accelerating into what some are calling the most significant private wealth migration.

"jurisdictional risk is now being treated like financial risk, something to be actively diversified"

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David J. Farber, ‘Grandfather of the Internet,’ Dies at 91

"When Professor Farber started his career in the mid-1950s, at Bell Laboratories, computers were practically islands unto themselves. If they communicated at all, they talked by means of a Teletype or punch card reader down the hall..."

Ebo Taylor, Musical Innovator of Highlife and Afrobeat, Dies at 90

"Fela often came to my flat in Willesden. And we would spend hours playing records by people like John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Charlie Parker, and analyzing them..."

Bonobo's pretend tea party shows capacity for imagination Kanzi, a bonobo with exceptional language skills, took part in a make-believe tea party that demonstrated cognitive abilities never seen before in non-human primates

the bonobo's tea party

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Rod Dreher Thinks the Enlightenment Was a Mistake The influential author derides secularism and the modern world. Conservatives—including the vice president—are joining him on a march back to the Middle Ages.

"He recounted a strange dream he'd had the night before: 'I was supposed to marry Arianna Huffington,' he said, 'and J.D. was supposed to marry the girl I had a crush on in high school, but couldn't have. I arranged things so that we switched brides...'"

Maybe America Needs Some New Cities

Irvine, featured in this article, is politically fascinating: a private New Town built not long after Reston and Columbia, but unlike them it incorporated—and after about a decade, it elected a DSA mayor.

The El Paso drone scare is the future of national security paranoia Fear over mysterious objects in the sky keeps disrupting society.

"The El Paso Drone Scare is the future of national security paranoia"

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash Flock off

Super Bowl ads get results!

Networks Versus Hierarchies in Minneapolis’ Struggle Against ICE For some time, I was thinking about writing a review of Kevin Carson’s book The Desktop Regulatory State, which helped inspire me to become an anarchist back in 2016, to see how it aged in the decade ...

"The horizontalist response to the failures of horizontalism in the 2010s...is that we're really just getting started."

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Hunter-gatherers took refuge in European 'water world' for millennia Ancient inhabitants of the Rhine-Meuse river delta resisted population shifts that transformed most of Europe — until they helped catalyse the expansion of ‘Bell Beaker’ culture.

"A western European 'water world' was a holdout for hunter-gatherers for thousands of years..."

The Banner announces coverage of Washington sports The Banner will expand its sports coverage to include Washington, D.C., teams, Editor-in-Chief Audrey Cooper announced in an internal email to staff on Thursday.

The Washington Post withdraws; the Baltimore Banner steps in

Trump on Truth Social: "AG Pam Bondi, under intense fire from the Trump Deranged Radical Left Lunatics, was fantastic at yesterday’s Hearing on the never ending saga of Jeffrey Epstein, where the one thing that has been proven conclusively, much to their chagrin, was that President Donald J. Trump has been 100% exonerated of their ridiculous Russia, Russia, Russia type charges. Actually, it is the SLIMEBALL Democrats, many of them big Donors and Politicians, that have been proven GUILTY! “Republican” Loser, Sanctimonious RINO Congressman, Thomas Massie, made a total fool of himself yesterday, fighting aimlessly against a hopeless agenda of Hate and Stupidity, as most clearly stated by his crashing Job Approval Numbers in the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky, where a Military Hero Opponent, Ed Gallrein, is crushing him in the Polls. He is now in “Wacky” Liz Cheney territory! Nobody cared about Epstein when he was alive, they only cared about him when they thought he could create Political Harm to a very popular President who has brought our Country back from the brink of extinction, and very quickly, at that! In fact, this attempt by the Democrats to take away attention from tremendous Republican SUCCESS is backfiring badly. Maybe they should focus on their quest to Open our Borders to the World’s Greatest Criminals, have Transgender for Everybody or, get Men, no matter their size or strength, to play in Women’s Sports. Thank you for your attention to this matter! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP"

Someday someone should ask him what exactly he means by "Transgender for Everybody."

How Rome's Middle Class Lived — and What Happened When It Fell | The Daily Economy Archaeology is now revealing the grit and hustle of the Roman middle class, reminding us that civilizations depend not on elites, but on the conditions that ...

"more information about the rural Roman 90 percent has emerged from the construction of Euro Disney than from the well-intentioned excavations designed to find them"

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