PCD

If you keep placing food in the same location somewhere on temperate earth, animals will eventually come to this spot to feed, and then ultimately so will a wake of vultures. -JWIII

Having worked at MULTIPLE global banks who have had to beg retirees to come work part time for more than FT salaries to deal with legacy COBOL issues, I’m terrified of what these little shits will do to our already brittle mainframe backbone.

I mean not just Yukos but that story is probably most notable and best example of what happened.

I’ve been saying this for years. So few people understand what happened with Yukos.

This paper is excellent and I highly recommend you read it but I also want to highlight an all-timer irony here: a philanthropic initiative from Bill Ackman's fund supported research that is a fantastic argument against Trump's policies.

I’ve wanted to check it out, but don’t feel like adding another streaming service lol

Has anyone brought up the grades of Venezuelan oil and changes in future demand for those grades?

Here is the policy goal: Remove general public support for public schools & substitute a privatized model (which is also segregated by race, faith, culture, what have you)

My social media habits have changed drastically and I’m generally on all platforms much less than years ago, but Bluesky right now feels kind of like early/pre-ads twitter.

Damn. I’ve been so disconnected from social media. Hope things are going well for yall there!

Traced to this relatively new venue. Would love to know more about whether the "housing" is actually anyone's home. www.livaudaishall.com/events

What appears to be a wedding second line just went through my neighborhood at 10pm. Never would have happened in the days when real people actually lived here. They really have just handed the whole city over to tourism.

Are you moving?

Jeff Landry is pushing tax cuts for the 1% by adding hundreds of new taxes on every day life

Here is the Arizona Supreme Court's decision reviving a 160-year-old total abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest. Remember that Arizona Republicans expanded their state Supreme Court to entrench today's hard-right conservative majority. www.azcourts.gov/Portals/0/Op...

A lit-up stage with Pretty Lights performing beneath a colorful sunset

Blessed to live in the Pretty Lights era ✨

I am going to lose my mind.

The people equating Hamas and all Gazans are elected officials with considerable power over how many of the latter are killed.

The people upholding Hamas are random college students.

That’s annoying

What was disappointing about it?

Oooh, not just "priors" but "Bayesian priors."

That's TWO shots, not just one, if you're still playing the "using statistical terms to make your gut instinct sound scientific" drinking game that seemed to be part of The Discourse a bit a few months past.

"A Washington Post analysis of thousands of challenges nationwide found that 60 percent of all challenges in the 2021-2022 school year came from 11 adults, each of whom objected to dozens — sometimes close to 100 — of books in their districts." www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

oh my fucking god

CNN knew exactly what they were doing.

*MALLINCKRODT FILES FOR CHAPTER 11 BANKRUPTCY IN DELAWARE

they only just emerged from Ch 11 in 2022. Been smacked with huge liabilities related to opioids. One of their subsidiaries shipped enough Oxycodone from 2006-2012 to cover 80 pills/person for everyone in the country.

The lies are as hysterical and despicable as they’ve always been. And, just like before, it didn’t work. So, sure, these elections stand as strong further confirmation of what we talked about in March. But is there a new story here? I would say yes. While the anti-trans attacks made by Republicans are almost identical in content to the attacks they made in 2022, the role of these attacks in Republican strategy has changed. During last year’s midterms, transphobia played a major, but fundamentally auxiliary, role. Republicans could not conceive that they could be on the wrong side of literally any issue. From education to the economy to foreign policy, they operated as if every single aspect of their platform was supported by a supermajority of voters. It’s why they never saw the Dobbs effect coming: they couldn’t conceive of abortion as an issue because they couldn’t conceive of anything as an issue. They were supremely arrogant, supremely amateurish, and supremely out over their skis

Many good excerpts but the key takeaway is 1) transphobia is consistently a very poor electoral strategy but 2) that won't stop conservatives from continuing to try it. Very convincing analysis.
www.ettingermentum.news/p/the-contin...

I am begging people to not pay attention to folks who just make stuff up. People like this are just lashing out and don't know what they're talking about.

Wishing Mitch all the worst

Anyone else getting tons of spam calls and texts recently? I wonder if it’s because of the OMV data breach?