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Following weeks of anti-government protests over job quotas, in which hundreds of protestors have been killed, Bangladesh's Prime Minister has ended her stretch as the longest-serving female head of government in the world by fleeing to India.Sheikh Hasina Wazed, Bangladesh's Prime Minister since 2009, head of one of the dominant political families in Bangladeshi politics, and daughter of the populous South Asian nation's first...

After a ten week trial in which testimony was heard from major players in the tech industry like Apple and Microsoft, federal district court judge Amit Mehta has ruled that Google and Alphabet have acted as a monopolist in the realms of online search and online advertising, in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.Alphabet argued that their lead position was purely a result of...

Anthony's idea for frog-saving saunas went global. Can he harness his viral moment? At least 90 species of frogs have been made extinct by chytrid fungus worldwide. But a program to protect other frogs with saunas made of bricks is proving promising.

'Amid the chaos of far-right protests and violence I saw the best of Bristol' - as the UK is rocked by far right violence Bristol antifa successfully defend a hotel housing asylum seekers against a fascist mob.

In a complaint filed at the end of July with New York State's Supreme Court (which is actually not the state's highest court), TNT Sports and Warner Brothers/Discovery have made good on their threat to sue the NBA [NY Times, archive here] with a claim that NBA failed their obligation to renew an 11-year contract to carry basketball games, choosing instead a $77B deal...

Olympic medals per capita or GDP. Choose to view the data for one games or all of them, weighted or not, per capita or by GDP.Also, just in case you were about to Google it: Athletes from Liechtenstein have won a total of ten medals, all in alpine skiing. It is the only country to have won medals at the Winter, but not Summer...

Global Carry Trade Unwind Extends as Peso Drops, Yen Gains "The closing of short yen positions represents a "real structural issue" with investors realizing they will have to pay a positive interest rate and unwinding the trade as Japan is expected to raise interest rates at least one more time this year" [ungated]What's a carry trade again? Here's what sounds like a surefire way...

"I have always considered myself a cut above the rest. Where they must rely on trickery, I achieve my goals through tact and intellect." [NSFW] June Martin's short fantasy story "Of a Devil, of a Deal" (self-published June 6, 2024 on her Patreon) is a Not Safe For Work fable (no graphics, only text) about a particularly hard-to-fulfill bargain. Can this devil elegantly grant...

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Rusty Foster at WaPo: The Alphas tend to be more outgoing, quizzing any passing thru-hiker about whatever happens to be on their mind, whether hiking-related or not. I don't believe this is a function of age; rather, it's generational, since the Alphas as a whole are a feral, no-gods/no-masters generation who recognize no authority and will brook no hint of inequality with man or...

Twelve years ago, songwriter/actor/singer/filmmaker/rapper/librettist and Emmy/TONY/Grammy/Pulitzer winner and MacArthur fellow Lin-Manuel Miranda started work on an unlikely-sounding project: a musical about the United States' first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. After resting on his laurels a bit, he has announced his next project: a musical based on Sol Yorick's novel The Warriors.The original novel has already enjoyed a film adaptation from 1979, one...

"This site explores the graphic design of Penguin book covers, with a focus on series editions." Previous Penguin

I'm drawn to the mystery of Ring Lardner's assailant and the details of Ike Francis's life for reasons I find difficult to define. It's a sense of something essential hidden away, a small secret part of what made us who we are. It makes me think of those scientists who comb the soil of the Amazon for evidence of ancient civilizations, where nothing else...

The Register reports that CP/M, the "Control Program for Microcomputers," has turned 50 years old! Amstrad released a CP/M laptop, using 720K 3 1/2-inch disks, as late as 1993, as demonstrated by Poking Technology in this Youtube video (19 minutes). CP/M used single-letter designations, like "A:", to represent disk drives. MS-DOS picked that convention up, where it survived into Windows 95 and NT, and...

Grass underfoot, Leipäjuusto in the mouth, stroking a cat, nettle stings on the body, fingers in clay and chocolate, and cold water and steam on bare skin ... after recent topics of smells and sounds and tastes, what are the textures, things you feel, which linger in your memories ... Or write about whatever is on your mind, in your heart, on your plate...

Famous Sycamore Gap tree illegally cut down now showing signs of life. Eight new shoots appear on the stump of a famous tree that was illegally felled in northern England last year.

Was the Internet Designed to Survive a Nuclear Attack? is an essay by computer historian Chris McKenzie which traces the origins of the popular myth that the Internet was the result of an attempt to create a military command and control network that wasn't vulnerable to a single nuclear strike. Via Bruce Sterling, who wrote an early version of the narrative.

Earlier this week, Caltech announced that for the first time in it's history, it has reached gender parity in it's incoming undergraduate class.Caltech was founded in 1891 as "Throop University" (for founder Amos Throop) in the seventeen year old city of Pasadena. It eventually became the California Institute of Technology in 1920. Caltech admitted men only until 1970, with it's first women graduates in...

How do you kill this pest? By importing its natural enemy. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) introduces a biocontrol fungus in the hope it reduces the spread of African boxthorn weed, but it is not available outside New South Wales due to lack of funding.

I wrote a song about my dad getting older - Jax and her dad in the car. One of several charming and heartwarming songs/shorts by Jax. Recently discovered by me - though she has 3M followers on YouTube and 14M on TikTok. Enjoyable content for enjoyment.I told my friends my babysitter was TikTok famous but they called me a liar Responding to a Hater...

How to save $13.27 on your sAAs bill. Hilarious. Sometimes, the boundary between the real and the parody is just a few lines of code.

On 30 May 1975, Toni Morrison, Primus St. John, John Callahan, Susan Callahan, and Lloyd Baker convened for the second part of the "Black Studies Center Public Dialogue" [PDF transcript] at Portland State University. During the dialogue, Toni Morrison said a number of important things, but one piece in particular has stood out in later years [previously; previouslier].Here's the quote: "The function, the very...