Francesco Caporusso

Yeah, I think is more a problem due to the pedestal that STEM has been put on, devaluing art and creativity.

This is a real problem with the tech industry. The president of one software company I worked at proudly proclaimed that he hadn’t read a fiction book since high school. I felt sad for him.

My wife told me that people not consuming a consistent diet of literature is why they struggle with empathy & putting themselves in the shoes of others & now I see it in everything.

Nothing surprising about this guy beating his chest & proudly proclaiming that he doesn’t read though.

No shit man.

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.

He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

There has been a normalization of these Christian fascists. Americans now see these groups and brush it aside. That is dangerous. They are allowed to form orgs and behave as if what they are doing is normal. It isn’t. It’s fascism. It’s AMERICAN fascism. After all, the KKK were also “Christians”.

Thankfully for the Kurds, the U.S. has no history of betraying them in the past

ALERT: With 5 Republicans joining Democrats, House Oversight Committee has just voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify as part of their ongoing Epstein investigation

Credit to trevors_history_reels

#Canada vs the #US WWI and WWII #Facts

Education is key

De La Soul’s Tiny Desk Concert Ok, you know this is going to be a good one: De La Soul plays a Tiny Desk Concert. The humor of De La Soul has always been one of its calling cards. When DJ Maseo tells the Tiny Desk crowd, “Ladies and gentlemen

De La Soul's Tiny Desk Concert! Stakes is High! Me Myself and I! Enough said. [kottke.org]

Maybe it’s just being from Arizona.

If you can provide $3k checks for the entire middle class of America by taxing 900 people a little more, not only should you do it, but you should take it as a signal that your monetary system is broken

U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Has Elon ever led us astray?

This is the point. If your vaunted trillion-dollar military can't get through a few days of airstrikes because you've consolidated the industrial base so badly, then you don't have a trillion-dollar military, you just have contractors in No. Virginia getting rich

Excommunicate this piece of trash.

Electing Trump the first time could have been seen as an aberration, a quirk of US politics that would not be repeated. But electing him a second time sent a clear signal to the rest of the world that it is imperative to reduce military and economic dependence on the US because it is unstable.

I guess the Alps are also somewhat in the way.

73 years ago, the CIA overthrew a democratically elected government in Iran and installed the Shah's dictatorship.

If you’re paying the mob boss for protection and then he doesn’t protect you, what exactly are you paying for?

1953 Iranian coup d'état - Wikipedia

The US-UK coup (1953) was much closer in time to the embassy takeover (1979) than that takeover is to this week’s US attack on Iran en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Ir...

It’s a take as old as time. Man gets brain damage, becomes republican. Sad.

The U.S. empire had a good run, but it’s time for it for to be over.

Exclusive: Researchers trick a bot that prescribes meds The state of Utah is running a pilot with Doctronic's AI system to refill some prescriptions.

The jailbreak was done on the company’s public bot, not the one inside the state system, but researchers “were able to make the bot spread vaccine conspiracy theories, triple a patient's prescribed pain medication dosage, and recommend methamphetamine as treatment.”

Oscar voting should be closed before these awards are announced. Otherwise, they just tilt the voting.

Ah, yes, the invaluable wisdom of the markets.

I don't think I've ever read a statement quite like this before.

That’s one head that would look particularly amazing on a pike.

Is there a Kurdish version of Lucy pulling the football just as Charlie Brown is going to kick it?

This is the era to take detailed notes on who the Business Idiots are. Every single person who bought into this at this scale has outed themselves as an untrustworthy individual with questionable taste

www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...