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Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

When I learned about phatic expression in college, it blew my mind and I realized I had to get over “small talk is a waste of time”—because it’s about communication of social bonds, not the communication of information in the words themselves, necessarily (of course it can be both)

If New York City Is No Longer Going to Be an Unaffordable Police State Run by Crooks, I’m Taking My Hard-Earned Sex-Pest Dollars Elsewhere “New York millionaires are plotting their exit from the city after the election of Zohran Mamdani, the socialist who plans to increase the taxes of...

"Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer a city where everyday residents have to work three jobs and are under constant threat of eviction. Anything short of an excruciating existence for the working class just doesn’t cut it for me."

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!

WATCH LIVE: Zohran Mamdani addresses supporters after winning 2025 NYC mayoral race YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

If you missed Zohran’s speech live, this is the link to the whole thing from PBS Newshour on YT: www.youtube.com/live/NnM_RgL...

#zohranmamdani #nyc

Indulge yourself with a Dr Poper!

(It used to contain real indulgences)

Why does the great pop culture reference Halloween costume always suggest itself right after Halloween (aloof wife)

Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover

thank you for the outpouring of support!

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

The backfire on purpose that sounds like gunshots is also bad. People in our neighborhood online group always assume the backfire is gunfire

How to Opt-Out of Airlines Selling Your Travel Data to the Government The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), owned by major U.S. airlines, collects billions of ticketing records and sells them to the government to be searched without a warrant. I managed to opt-out…

When you book a flight through major travel sites, a data broker owned by U.S. airlines will sell details about your flight—your name, credit card used, and where you’re flying to the government.

We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide:
www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...

I wear short sleeve t-shirts over the long sleeved ones and that makes them better for me

BREAKING: Highlights Magazine Caves Into Trump Administration’s Demands, Kills Gallant Off and Only Keeps Goofus

Screenshot text from the Atlantic Here is where the bubble dynamics get complicated. Tech firms don’t want to formally take on debt—that is, directly ask investors for loans—because debt looks bad on their balance sheets and could reduce shareholder returns. To get around this, some are partnering with private-equity titans to do some sophisticated financial engineering, Paul Kedrosky, an investor and a financial consultant, told us. These private-equity firms put up or raise the money to build a data center, which a tech company will repay through rent. Data-center leases from, say, Meta can then be repackaged into a financial instrument that people can buy and sell—a bond, in essence. Meta recently did just this: Blue Owl Capital raised money for a massive Meta data center in Louisiana by, in essence, issuing bonds backed by Meta’s rent. And multiple data-center leases can be combined into a security and sorted into what are called “tranches” based on their risk of default. Data centers represent an $800 billion market for private-equity firms through 2028 alone. (Meta has said of its arrangement with Blue Owl that the “innovative partnership was designed to support the speed and flexibility required for Meta’s data center projects.”) In this way, the data-center financing ends up being a real-estate deal as much as an AI deal. If this sounds complicated, it’s supposed to: The complexity, investment structure, and repackaging make exactly what is going on hard to parse. And if the dynamics also sound familiar, it’s because not two decades ago, the Great Recession was precipitated by banks packaging risky mortgages into tranches of securities that were falsely marketed as high-quality. By 2008, the house of cards had collapsed. Data-center build-outs aren’t the same as subprime mortgages. Still, there is plenty of precarity baked into these investments. Data centers deteriorate rapidly, unlike the more durable infrastructure of canals, railroads, or even fiber-…

seems bad!

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Wishing you the best and soonest new opportunity.

FUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKK
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Trump posts his worst-ever net approval rating in a CNN poll this morning, 37% to 63% (-26) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Anyway, if you live in a place with nationalized health care, never let them take it away.

At a time when many are extra worried about food insecurity (I’m not the only one getting these emails)

While fighting me on things I actually need

If I were to say what I wanted to say about my health insurance company emailing me twice a week about how I “have an unused benefit for weight loss”

Big day for Boris the Spider on your community radio stations, I’m hearing

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_t...

Boo!

Nightmare (1964 film) - Wikipedia

Hammer film, first time on TCM tonight: Nightmare (1964)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightma...

Goblin style! It was the mode at the time

For the Americans I know you don’t hear much global news but Ireland just elected Catherine Connolly as our president by a laaaaandslide ✊🏽