Louisville boy makes medical history as first patient in US with new cochlear implant UK HealthCare implanted the first MED-EL-FLEX34 cochlear impact in December in a now 11 year old boy from Louisville. Here's how his life has changed.

This poor kid was failed by whoever did his hearing test when he was 3 and concluded he could hear fine and just had a speech impediment and needed speech therapy. He spent years lip reading and assuming that's what everyone did.

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This burns me up. If they advertise a kids meal, then they should sell that. And if I had other options, I’d just walk away. But your friend may not have had much of a choice at the airport. Ugh

Not fleeing: New report shows more wealthy residents in Mass., 2 years into 'millionaire's tax' Despite previous concerns, Massachusetts' "millionaire's tax" hasn't seemed to deter high-earners from continuing to live here, according to a new study from the Institute for Policy Studies.

1. The extra marginal tax rate will affect millionaires' daily lives almost not at all, which is why in reality none of them would leave the state.

2. When you have this much money, your accountant/financial folks are already making you as tax efficient as possible.

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Color photo of a two story building taken from the former corner entrance at a wide angle. It has been partially filled in with nonmatching unsympathetic brick at the bottom, and has large windows with drawings of toilets and guys doing HVAC work, advertising the business currently housed here.

Color close-up of the second floor above the former corner entrance, and a small portion of one of the side elevations. On the corner, a concrete sunburst sits above the the parapet, with faces staring out from atop piers that are themselves ornamented by a red brick pattern giving this two story building a sense of verticality. Underneath the sunburst is ANOTHER sunburst, this one a more stylized Art Deco-y version. Centered underneath this is a panel with a golden shield bracketed by an arrangement of dark and light brick creating a diamond pattern highlighting the shield. On either side of this panel are alternating courses of stretchers with sawtooth brick, giving this tiny little section an amazing amount of visual interest and texture.

Color close-up of the brickwork around one of the windows on the side of the building. There's a lot going here. A cast stone sunburst! A shield set into a diamond brick pattern made from alternating dark and tan bricks! Sawtooth brick! Tan brick laid stretcher to stretcher! Red brick where they've used damn near every side of the brick (stretcher, header, soldier) to create a vertical pattern that serves as a visual arrow! Recessed brick arranged vertically! Faces!

Color close-up of another set of windows on the side elevation. Again we have faces atop piers with an arrangement of red bricks that serve to emphasize the building's verticality, but between them are a different shield centered in a bed of brick laid in a checkerboard pattern underneath a stylized Art Deco sunburst of cast stone.

Art Deco AF former Walgreens just quietly going hard as hell on a random corner in Detroit.

Architect: Charles N Agree, 1929
Detroit, Michigan

I feel this deeply and I often dread email. I once read that the inventors of email convinced themselves that email would mean less work for people and were shocked at how much more work it created. This is a case for the Humanities.

Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor during the filming of the movie Stir Crazy (1980)

The guys 🎬
#filmsky #moviesky #cinema

Oh baby, this dat ole time eugenics.

But you see why it's Juan Crow. He's all but saying plainly he thinks Latiné people now occupy the rung that used to be held by hard Rs b/c inner city hard Rs won't pick cotton anymore.

WHEW.

Nebraska, everyone.

NY high school grad detained by ICE released Editor’s note: The video aired before it was announced that Yeonsoo Go would be released. NEW YORK (PIX11) — Yeonsoo Go, the Scarsdale High School honors graduate who was detained by IC…

YEONSOO GO HAS BEEN RELEASED.

This doesn’t change the monstrous injustice of her detention.

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Tens of Thousands of Stunning Images by Photographer Bill Cunningham Acquired by New York Historical The museum will house photographs, negatives and slides belonging to the renowned photographer, who captured life in New York City for decades before his death in 2016

Bill Cunningham fans, you'll dig this:
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popular anti-fascism as taxpayer revolt...might have some legs

Want to retire in your 50s? Here’s how to plan for it Start by working out how much income you will need for a comfortable life, to turn what can seem like a pipe dream into a reality

"with careful planning and consistent saving, you can increase your chances of an early escape from working life."

This is so offensive! No amount of "planning and consistent saving" makes this possible if you've been underpaid your entire career, which is the case for most POC & women!

Christianity Was “Borderline Illegal” in Silicon Valley. Now It’s the New Religion Believers like Garry Tan are flipping the script in the venture capital world, making faith matter just as much as the ability to turn a fortune. Says one entrepreneur, “There are people that are leve...

Speaking of serious journalism, its the likes of Teen Vogue, Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair that are doing serious journalism on Silicon Valley because other so-called serious news outlets are doing a press-releases-as-journalism service to maintain their access.

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Opinion | You Are Contaminated

“The world is inside us, now. What are we going to do about it?” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...

Truly

‘We live with the same fear as we did in Nicaragua’: migrants caught between Trump’s deportations and the Ortega regime Nearly 96,000 Nicaraguans who arrived in the US under humanitarian parole, along with another 4,000 protected by TPS, live in a legal limbo

Migrants caught between Trump & Ortega: persecution on both sides of the abyss
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And what wonderful light for this photo. Truly lovely. Thank you!

Hermione rose. Pale pink. Brilliant yellow inside.

Hermione in the morning. Some small beauty.

I cannot overstate how much Nation of Millions rocked my world and influenced my musical and social tastes, right from the first listen. Just, man.

They can eat the new White House ballroom.

what ferritor needed was moral education — and the limits and boundaries that come with it. he needed to learn that he had obligations beyond his own interests & personal advancement. he needed to learn that he had duties to other people. his parents fostered his brilliance at the expense of a soul.

The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

i think i disagree with the idea that the ferritor should have been allowed to follow his own path during his schooling, neglecting assignments and being coddled for his apparent genius. i think, in fact, that this was the problem. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-boy-ge...

ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’ Some college students are beginning to limit their use of artificial intelligence, so as not to hinder their own creativity, discipline and critical thinking

Weird. This doesn’t match what I’ve been told—that students are going to use it no matter what.

Loni Anderson, ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’ Star, Dies at 79 Loni Anderson, who played the savvy, high-heeled receptionist Jennifer Marlowe on “WKRP in Cincinnati,” Died on Sunday, according AP. She was 79.

Loni Anderson had phenomenal comedy timing. I wish she'd been EVERYWHERE doing the most, because she was outstanding. Glad she was here.

So, this is how my family of Black southerners became Catholic. My grandfather, raised Baptist, had stopped going to church and ran into a friend one day who said Bill Wright, come to church with me. Pawpaw said he didn’t have all day for church and his friend said, I’m in and out in 30 min…

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Opinion | Behind Trump and Vance Is This Man’s Movement

My take away from this interview [gift link] is that Vance's "National Conservatism" is a form of blood and soil nationalism that is deeply invested in claiming (and possibly actually believing) that it is NOT a form of blood and soil nationalism.
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Inside the Battle Over 'Napalm Girl' A new documentary, 'The Stringer,' investigates the story of the famous Vietnam War photo "Napalm Girl," raising questions about who actually took it

Inside the Battle Over ‘Napalm Girl’

What we have long accepted about one of the most galvanizing war photographs of all time may not be true. Can history be rewritten?
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Republicans been talking about China beating us and we need to keep up and they right

This week's Joseph Welch Award Friends,

"This week’s Joseph Welch Award — which goes to a person who stands up to tyranny in America, just as attorney Joseph Welch stood up to Senator Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s — goes to Lonnie Griffith Bunch III, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution."

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