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Now that’s a sense of humor!

submitted 385 days ago • 14 comments

Boom.

submitted 385 days ago • 26 comments

Bob Edwards, the longtime host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” died on Saturday at 76. He was “the voice we woke up to” for a quarter century, delivering news and interviews in a rich baritone that reached millions of listeners.

submitted 385 days ago • 7 comments

Fresh basic income pilot results, this time from Arlington, Virginia where 200 people got $500 a month for 2 years. The findings: Employment INCREASED by 16%, and their incomes from paid work INCREASED by 37%. The control group saw no such gains. www.arlnow.com/2024/02/06/r...

submitted 390 days ago • 19 comments

Bug Thread xkcd.com/2881

submitted 412 days ago • 25 comments

This is a stunning detail about the Uvalde shooting from incredible reporting by The Texas Tribune and @propublica.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2023/12/05/u...

submitted 454 days ago • 63 comments

Gonna take a sec to remind folks that James Gunn co-wrote a screenplay called "Coyote vs. Acme" about Wile E. suing Acme Corporation for selling faulty products with a Saul Goodman-esque lawyer. It was finished, tested well, had interested buyers/distributors. And was nuked for a tax write-off.

submitted 458 days ago • 11 comments

My favourite bit from Mike's article

submitted 457 days ago • 4 comments

Read this item from today's Politico. It describes how false equivalency and both-sides-ing is not just a lazy habit in journalism, but a tool of politics that builds the bad journalism into party behavior, thus making a mockery of the images of detachment on which the press sells itself.

submitted 535 days ago • 10 comments

Jill Lepore's piece in The New Yorker is the best take on Isaacson's Musk book, so of course I somehow hadn't shared it yet. Totally nails Isaacson's enabling, the glossing over of Musk's background, the excusing of cruelty and ruthlessness as somehow necessary to innovation or leadership.

submitted 537 days ago • 9 comments

Christiane Amanpour knows the score. And it's not 50-50. At a celebration of her 40 years in the news business, CNN's Oliver Darcy asked her what assignment has left the biggest imprint. She said it was covering the war in Bosnia. Read her reply. view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/169...

submitted 537 days ago • 4 comments

Some people will tell you it's "too radical" or "too extreme" to say capitalism relies on hurting workers. But what about when a millionaire CEO says it? That's exactly what Tim Gurner said when he advocated for more unemployment and more economic pain. www.jphilll.com/p/when-the-r...

submitted 537 days ago • 16 comments

yesterday’s column (gift link) wapo.st/3ZesMjD

submitted 539 days ago • 2 comments