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The ICE List is a public, open-source effort to document the people responsible for enforcing deportation, separating families, and carrying out immigration raids in the United States. All information is sourced from public records, social media, and tips.
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Germany Italy fact of the day
Jun. 23rd, 2025 18:04marginal_revolution_feedGermany and Italy hold the world’s second- and third-largest national gold reserves after the US, with reserves of 3,352 tonnes and 2,452 tonnes, respectively, according to World Gold Council data. Both rely heavily on the New York Federal Reserve in Manhattan as a custodian, each storing more than a third of their bullion in the US. Between them, the gold stored in the US has a market value of more than $245bn, according to FT calculations…
“We need to address the question if storing the gold abroad has become more secure and stable over the past decade or not,” Gauweiler told the FT, adding that “the answer to this is self-evident” as geopolitical risk had made the world more insecure.
Here is more from Olaf Storbeck and Amy Kazmin at the FT.
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Jun. 23rd, 2025 18:11futilitycloset_feedAnother exercise in linguistic purism: In his 1989 essay “Uncleftish Beholding,” Poul Anderson tries to explain atomic theory using Germanic words almost exclusively, coining terms of his own as needed:
The firststuffs have their being as motes called unclefts. These are mightly small; one seedweight of waterstuff holds a tale of them like unto two followed by twenty-two naughts. Most unclefts link together to make what are called bulkbits. Thus, the waterstuff bulkbit bestands of two waterstuff unclefts, the sourstuff bulkbit of two sourstuff unclefts, and so on. (Some kinds, such as sunstuff, keep alone; others, such as iron, cling together in ices when in the fast standing; and there are yet more yokeways.) When unlike clefts link in a bulkbit, they make bindings. Thus, water is a binding of two waterstuff unclefts with one sourstuff uncleft, while a bulkbit of one of the forestuffs making up flesh may have a thousand thousand or more unclefts of these two firststuffs together with coalstuff and chokestuff.
Reader Justin Hilyard, who let me know about this, adds, “This sort of not-quite-conlang is still indulged in now and then today; it’s often known as ‘Anglish’, after a coining by British humorist Paul Jennings in 1966, in a three-part series in Punch magazine celebrating the 900th anniversary of the Norman conquest. He also wrote some passages directly inspired by William Barnes in that same Germanic-only style.”
Somewhat related: In 1936 Buckminster Fuller explained Einstein’s theory of relativity in a 264-word telegram.
(Thanks, Justin.)
Commodore 64’s Driller cover art, 1987, by Steinar Lund.
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Monday assorted links
Jun. 23rd, 2025 16:06marginal_revolution_feed1. On the new Xi Zhongxun biography.
2. “This month, four Finnish cities are offering six euros per litre for dead Spanish slugs.”
3. “There are new hints that the fabric of space-time may be made of “memory cells” that record the whole history of the universe.” Speculative.
4. The moratorium on state-level AI regulation has so far survived (contrary to my expectations).
5. Marijuana is associated with higher risk of heart attack and stroke (NYT).
6. The SAT reading section becoming shorter probably is not because of declining attention spans. Here is further explanation from the primary source. I would say the question remains unsettled, as we should not take the College Board at its word. My favored (unconfirmed) hypothesis is that the colleges and universities themselves wish to lower standards to boost enrollment, but without lowering their average SAT scores.
7. Schelling on Iran and nuclear weapons, starting at 4:35. It includes the story of his visit to Iran, to discuss ideas on nuclear deterrence. Whether you agree or not, this is a talk from a very different era. About thirty minutes long. Addendum: Corrected link here.
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Jun. 23rd, 2025 12:57urban_feedHave Appliances Declined in Durability?
Jun. 23rd, 2025 11:17marginal_revolution_feedMany Americans believe that their appliances have become less durable and reliable over recent decades. Rachel Wharton at Wirecutter has an excellent piece pushing back. Her conclusions mirror what I found when looking at clothing quality: yes, there has been a modest decline in durability, but the main drivers are customer preferences, regulatory shifts, and Baumol effects—not corporate malfeasance or cultural decline.
“Everybody talks about the Maytag washing machine that lasts 50 years,” said Daniel Conrad, a former product engineer at Whirlpool Corporation who is now the director of design quality, reliability, and testing for a commercial-refrigeration company. “No one talks about the other 4.5 million that didn’t last that long.”
The available evidence suggests that appliance lifespans have decreased only modestly over the past few decades. Recent research from the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers trade group shows that in 2010 most appliances lasted from 11 to 16 years. By 2019, those numbers had dropped, to a range of nine to 14 years. (In some cases, such as for gas ranges and dryers, the lifespans actually increased.)
The modest decline is partially explained by regulation:
Every appliance service technician I spoke to — each with decades of experience repairing machines from multiple brands — immediately blamed federal regulations for water and energy efficiency for most frustrations with modern appliances.
…The main culprit is the set of efficiency standards for water and energy use for all cooking, refrigeration, and cleaning appliances.
The regulations change often and push producers to make changes that consumers don’t necessarily want like switching to lighter plastic parts rather than metal or by adding sophisticated computer controls that increase efficiency but also introduce new break points. See my previous posts on these issues here and here.
But as with clothing, another reason for reduced durability is that many consumers don’t want durable appliances–instead consumers want the latest model with all the whizz-bang features. (Sure, I don’t want this and you don’t want it but heh, they sell!) In other words, appliances and their colors, features and styles have become items of fashion.
And people’s desire for new things only appears to be growing. Petrino Ball said her sales research at AJ Madison showed that today consumers are buying new appliances every eight years, even if what they had before hasn’t fully failed.
…Whitney Welch, a spokesperson for GE Appliances, told me that its research showed consumers are often replacing appliances for aesthetic reasons….
If many customers don’t want to keep appliances for more than 10 years then it doesn’t pay to make them last more than 10 years.
The big story isn’t declining durability but declining price:
In 1972, Sears sold a clothes washer for $220 and a dryer for $90, per 2022 research by AARP Magazine. That’s about $2,389 in 2025, adjusted for inflation. Today you can get a washer-and-dryer pair on sale from Sears for around $1,200.
The Baumol effect means that repair is rising in price relative to buying new which is another reason why we don’t keep products around as long as we did when we were poorer and it it made sense to fix broken goods:
….prices on most new models are so low, his first suggestion to customers is to just replace the appliance. “If the cost of repair is 50% of replacement, throw it cleanly away,” he said. “If it’s 40%, consider the option.”
“Labor is highly skilled,” he added. “It can’t compete with low prices.”
In many cases, it can’t compete with lost time, either. Repairs often require waiting a few days or weeks for parts, said Petrino Ball. “Even one day without a washer-dryer or fridge is really hard for many families,” she said, “but if you buy one, you can have it the next day.”
Moreover, as I argued with clothes, it is possible to find durable appliances if you shop carefully. Interestingly, Wharton notes that you can either go high or low. The top-of-the-line appliances from Sub-Zero and Wolf do last longer but they are very expensive and often do not include whizz-bang features. Alternatively, you can go low–buy a GE or Sears refrigerator and get it without frills–no ice or water dispenser, no electronics, no lux colors and chances are it will last a long time.
In short, appliance durability hasn’t collapsed—it’s evolved to meet consumer demand. We’re not being ripped off. We are getting better products at better prices. Rising incomes have simply redefined what “better” means.
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Rasheed Griffith on the economics and aesthetics of Asunción
Jun. 23rd, 2025 05:50marginal_revolution_feedYet, on my first visit to Asunción last week none of that was on my mind. What was striking was the total absence of any aesthetic coherence of the city.
There are some economic reasons for this:
Going back to the middle class consumption point. If only around 300,000 Paraguayans make up the domestic personal income tax base then it’s perhaps not a local middle class that is buying and renting the new modern high rise apartments in Asunción.
Indeed, 70% of the new housing supply are acquired by foreign investors as a capital preservation strategy. They are not bought by locals. These are often investors from Argentina, who according to some data account for 70% of all foreign investors. They buy the apartments and then rent them out? But to who?
Usually foreigners who go to Paraguay for work purposes or new residents who take advantage of Paraguay’s quick and easy residency scheme and citizenship program. And the fun part is that these rental contracts are usually in dollars! Not the local currency (the Guaraní, PYG). Of course, Argentines buy property in Paraguay and prefer to receive dollars in rent.
The entire post is excellent There is also this:
There is a lot more that I could say about Paraguay. Like how the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870) resulted in the death of 70% of adult men in Paraguay; giving the country the highest male-mortality proportion ever reliably documented for a nation-state in modern warfare.
I have yet to visit Paraguay, but someday hope to. But should this post induce me to accelerate or delay my timetable?
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New words – 23 June 2025
Jun. 23rd, 2025 06:00about_words_feedneocloud noun [C] UK /ˈniː.əʊˌklaʊd/ US /ˈniː.oʊˌklaʊd/ a start-up that specializes in AI-based cloud computing The race to dominate the AI industry is heating up, and it’s not just big tech in the spotlight. Startups known as “neoclouds” are redefining the landscape, competing with established giants … The rise of neoclouds represents a shift in …
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Chantilly destination achieved, the Limbourg brothers are amazing
Jun. 23rd, 2025 04:03marginal_revolution_feedCommissioned by the Duc de Berry, the enormously wealthy brother of King Charles V of France, this exquisite Book of Hours was begun by the Limbourg brothers, a trio of Netherlandish miniature painters, in around 1411. The Duc and the Limbourgs died in 1416. The manuscript was completed by other wealthy patrons and talented artists 70 years later and contains 131 full-page illuminations. Now, in a vanishingly rare opportunity, the general public has been invited to step into this world.
Until October, visitors to a special exhibition at the Condé Museum in the Château de Chantilly, 55km north of Paris, will be able to view as independent works the 12 monthly calendar pages of the Très Riches Heures, on which much of the fame of this 15th-century prayer book rests. Its importance and influence are contextualised by an exceptional display of some 100 medieval manuscripts, sculptures and paintings loaned from museums and libraries around the world.
…as the renowned scholar Christopher de Hamel, author of the 2016 book, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts, explains, the Très Riches Heures are so much more than a luxury object. “The staggering originality of the design and composition is overwhelming,” he says. “The full-page calendar miniatures were the first ever made. It marks the very first moment when the Renaissance touched northern Europe.
Here is the full story. This is very likely the best and most important artistic exhibit in the world right now. It is only the third time (ever) the pages of the book have been on display for the public. In the exhibit more broadly, it is remarkable how many of the best works were created in the first decade of the fifteenth century.
All three of the brothers died before the age of thirty, possibly because of the plague.
Chantilly is about an hour north of Paris, and it is a pleasant but fairly extreme town. Think of it as a French version of Middleburg, VA? Or perhaps parts of Sonoma? It is their version of horse country, with non-spicy food to boot. The accompanying castle, by the way, also is interesting and has some wonderful art works, including by Poussin, Watteau, and Greuze. The decor and trappings give you a sense of what eighteenth century French Enlightenment nobles might have considered to be beautiful.
A major goal of this trip has been to get a better handle on the Western European medieval world, and visiting this exhibit has been a big and very successful part of that.
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Jun. 22nd, 2025 19:05vakРежим на грани. Рейды коммандос, смена режима и варианты дальнейших действий
Молниеносная кампания Израиля разрушила противовоздушную оборону Ирана, обезглавила его военное командование и заставила членов руководства режима бежать в Россию. Поскольку последний укрепленный ядерный объект в Фордо остался нетронутым, надвигается момент глобальных последствий: будет ли это сигналом к падению Исламской Республики, и что восстанет из ее руин? Опираясь на мой собственный военный опыт, этот анализ исследует, как может развернуться удар коммандос по Фордо. С моей академической точки зрения он определяет военные, социальные и психологические пороги, которые могут ускорить крах Ирана, а также варианты, которые могут быть доступны на следующий день.За считанные дни упреждающие удары Израиля разрушили оборонительный щит Ирана. Системы ПВО Ирана были быстро ликвидированы, открыв небо для беспрепятственной израильской авиации. Одновременно точечные удары и тайные операции обезглавили ключевые узлы командования Корпуса стражей исламской революции (КСИР), ракетные базы, ядерные объекты и другие военные цели; слишком много, чтобы перечислить их здесь. Надземные здания в Натанзе, некогда центральное звено иранской программы обогащения урана, лежат в руинах, их разрушение подтверждено атомным надзорным органом ООН.
Несколько высокопоставленных иранских политических и религиозных лидеров, как сообщается, бежали в безопасные убежища в России: драматический сигнал краха доверия. Этот исход правящей элиты, если он точен, наносит решительный психологический удар. Мы еще не достигли этой цели, но бегство самого Хаменеи было бы сравнимо с тем, как шах Ирана садился в самолет в 1979 году или президент Афганистана бежал из Кабула в 2021 году. Это сигнал как сторонникам режима, так и общественности, что корабль государства тонет, потенциально подрывая любую оставшуюся волю к сопротивлению.
Наступление Израиля, похоже, направлено не только на нейтрализацию ядерных угроз. Оно «расчищает путь» для иранцев, чтобы вернуть себе свободу, как выразился премьер-министр Нетаньяху в прямом обращении к народу Ирана. Другими словами, смена режима является неявной целью этой кампании. Удары были откалиброваны так, чтобы поразить инструменты режима для репрессий и войны (ядерные объекты, базы КСИР, высших генералов), минимизируя при этом жертвы среди гражданского населения, в надежде, что простые иранцы не сплотятся вокруг флага, а вместо этого выступят против своих ослабленных правителей.
До сих пор ответные действия Ирана состояли из залпа ракет и беспилотников, а также из сообщений о попытках подрывной деятельности в самом Израиле. Они были в значительной степени сорваны. Многоуровневая противовоздушная оборона Израиля (при поддержке и раннем оповещении США) действует эффективно, отражая прошлые столкновения, когда массированные иранские ракетные залпы в значительной степени отражались израильскими перехватчиками. Лишенный своих самых мощных средств для нанесения ответного удара и наблюдающий за беспорядком в своей военной иерархии, режим в Тегеране оказался в беспрецедентно хрупком состоянии.
Одна надвигающаяся проблема остается нерешенной: комплекс по обогащению урана в Фордо. Фордо — самый сложный ядерный объект Ирана, зарытый на глубине полумили под горой, и он пережил первоначальный натиск невредимым. Пока Фордо остается в рабочем состоянии, иранский режим держит опасный туз в рукаве. На объекте размещены передовые центрифуги, обогащающие уран до уровней, близких к оружейным, и потенциально могут ускорить усилия по созданию ядерного оружия, если руководство почувствует себя загнанным в угол. В глазах израильтян позволить Фордо остаться невредимым было бы серьезной ошибкой. Это может даже спровоцировать Тегеран на гонку за бомбой из отчаяния или открытой мести. Для кампании Израиля по настоящему устранению ядерной угрозы Фордо должен быть нейтрализован тем или иным способом.
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Fred Smith, RIP
Jun. 22nd, 2025 21:08marginal_revolution_feedHe founded FedEx, a company that before the internet truly was a big deal. The plan for the company was based on an undergraduate economics paper. At age thirty Fred was in deep trouble. And “In the early days of FedEx, when the company was struggling financially, Smith took the company’s last $5,000 to Las Vegas and played blackjack. He reportedly won $27,000, which was enough to cover an overdue fuel bill and keep the company afloat for another week.”
Way back when, receiving a FedEx package was really a thrill.
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Sunday assorted links
Jun. 22nd, 2025 17:49marginal_revolution_feed2. We need more YIMBY for mobile homes.
3. Was this British factory the world’s first skyscraper? (NYT)
4. John Cochrane on interest on reserves.
5. AI is neutralizing Indian accents in call centers.
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Медведев обещает дать Ирану ядрёну бомбу
Jun. 22nd, 2025 11:24vakKARL: This morning, the Russian reaction caught -- caught my eye. Dmitri Medvedev, of course, the former president, prime minister of Russia, now, the deputy chairman of Russia's security council, said, "The enrichment of nuclear material, and now we can say it outright, the future production of nuclear weapons will continue. A number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads."
What do you make of that Russian response? And are they -- they off base? I mean, they're -- they're saying that the nuclear program in Iran is -- is still well underway.
VANCE: Well, first of all, I think it's a bizarre response, but I also don't know that that guy speaks for President Putin or for the Russian government.
One of the things that we've picked up, Jon, in our conversations with the Russians over the last few months, despite our many disagreements, of course, with the state of Russia, they've been very consistent that they don't want Iran to get a nuclear weapon. And -- and this is what I think many commentators underappreciate about what the president did last night.
Iran having a nuclear weapon, nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, is a disaster for pretty much everybody. It's one of the few issues where Russia, China and the United States have broad agreement is that we don't want to see a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. So, what the president did was very important. I'll let President Putin speak to what the official Russian position on this is.
винесу з коментів в приватному пості
Jun. 22nd, 2025 10:12malyj_gorganВ 2022-му те саме пуйло влаштувалю нон-проліферейшену контрольний постріл в голову.*
А вчора трамп зробив всесвітнє шоу-оголошення (це все, що він вміє, і то не завжди, але тут вийшло), щоби навіть ті, до кого не дійшло перший і другий раз, зрозуміли, що "non-proliferation is dead. Dee-ee-dee: dead" ((c) Mel Brooks)
UPD. Якщо що, то моя особиста думка, що вчорашнє бомбардування Ірану навряд чи щось зробило гірше в плані політичних процесів у світі: з цими процесами все погано, що навряд чи він сильно зашкодив і навіть незрозуміло, чи він прискорив чи сповільнив сповзання світу туда само, чим накрилася непроліферація. Хоча нічого хорошого про те, _як_ це було зроблено в контексті інших слів і дій нинішньої адміністрації, я сказати не можу. Тактично воно -- хід правильний, принаймні в контексті Близького Сходу.
А от стратегічно, в плані "кого ми будемо бомбити, а кого хвалити" -- все погано. Чи пуйло і справді трампа за щось тримає?
* Як не неприємно це визнавати, в 2014-му процесу дуже допоміг Обама, а в 22-му -- недостатньо перешкодив Байден. З іншого боку, судячи за діями постобамівського трампа-1 і постбайденівського трампа-2, альтернативи з можливих дій США (в рамках вікон Обертона на кожен відповідний момент) були ще гіршими, тому це камінь не так в бік конкретних сил в США, а в бік країни взагалі.
Писане — не сказане
Jun. 22nd, 2025 20:08ukurainajinНасправді, це залежить від того, як вимовляти саме́ «США».
Написаному текстові байдуже, яку форму прийменника використано, бо це не впливає на розуміння. Фіксування певної форми на письмі не є річчю в собі, а має полегшувати нашу вимову написаного, коли до неї дійде.
Ми всі знаємо, що українська не любить у вимові певні скупчення приголосних чи також голосних. Звідси в українській купа фонетичних варіацій тих самих прийменників. Ну, і правопис радить (саме радить, а не вимагає), яку форму краще добрати, спираючись на вигляд сусідніх слів, щоби вимова була приємнішою. Зокрема для прийменника «з» він пропонує вживати форму з додатковою голосною, якщо наступне слово починається зі скупчення приголосних, котре теж містить «з, с, ц, ч, ш, щ», як, наприклад, «зі всіма» (альт. «з усіма») або «зі швидкістю».
Так от… «США», начебто, теж підпадає під це правило… Але правда така, що не зовсім! «США» є абревіатурою, умовним позначенням і вимовляється не обов'язково так, як пишеться.
( У кого що: )
The Eradication of Smallpox
Jun. 22nd, 2025 11:16marginal_revolution_feedExcellent, beautifully produced video on the eradication of smallpox. Interesting asides on the connection between the scientific and humanitarian revolutions.
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Jun. 22nd, 2025 11:14marginal_revolution_feedIn Italy, you need a doctor’s permission before joining a gym or running a marathon.
In Virginia and many other states, you need an annual auto safety inspection to legally drive.
Which of these laws is the most beneficial/costly? Show your work.
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Jun. 22nd, 2025 06:56futilitycloset_feedSign outside the public library at West Pittston, Pa., October 2016:
In case you wish to comment on very recent events
Jun. 22nd, 2025 05:35marginal_revolution_feedComments are open…
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Jun. 22nd, 2025 04:52marginal_revolution_feedA hotel in southwestern China’s megacity of Chongqing has come under fire for using red pandas to deliver morning wake-up calls to guests, sparking controversy and raising fresh concerns about the welfare of endangered wildlife and customer safety.
Located near the Chongqing Wild Animal World, the hotel offers a so-called “red panda morning call” service, where staff lead red pandas into guests’ rooms to greet them in the morning. Guests can feed, stroke, and take photos with the animals — some of whom were filmed exploring the hotel rooms and wandering across beds.
In addition to red panda-themed rooms, the hotel features accommodation with up-close contact with ring-tailed lemurs, albeit this time outdoors.
Here is the full story, via Jonathan Cheng.
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What I’ve been reading
Jun. 22nd, 2025 04:27marginal_revolution_feedFrancesca Wade, Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife. One of the best-written biographies I have read in years. I would not say it is close to my core interests, but if you think you might like it you will.
Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Never Known Men. I enjoyed this novel: “Deep Underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before.”
J.P. Mallory, The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting Their Story. The best book I know of on the origins and unities of Indo-European languages. I had not known Edward Sapir was born in Pomerania. And “…the Keres people who occupy seven pueblos (villages) in New Mexico speak a language totally unrelated to any of their neighbours and their origins have been frequently disputed.”
Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn. One of the best Trollope novels it seems, even though it is not (yet?) clear what the plot actually consists of. Currency decimalization is also one of the side plots, who can argue with that?
Manu S. Pillai, Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity. It may be fruitless to argue about this topic on-line, but almost all Westerners under-read when the topic is Hinduism.
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Jun. 21st, 2025 21:38stasVance Boelter
Jun. 21st, 2025 20:42stasНу то есть явный трампист, кто ещё может такое написать? Понятно, теперь, почему манифест куда-то запропал и вообще как-то эту тему стали по-быстрому заминать. Народу не нужны нездоровые сенсации.
горячие новости
Jun. 21st, 2025 20:32stasкак по нотам
Jun. 21st, 2025 19:46stas70sscifiart_feedAnyone know this one? I looked it up but I could only find this one with an actual tiger, not a tattoo: Joe Jusko's wraparound cover for the November 1979 issue.
July '85, maybe? No tiger, though.
HEAVY METAL MAGAZINE July 1985 - Vol. 9 No. 4 - Heavy Metal Magazine
Nice! That could be the answer
70sscifiart_feedAnyone know this one? I looked it up but I could only find this one with an actual tiger, not a tattoo: Joe Jusko's wraparound cover for the November 1979 issue.
Do you offer signed copies of your book?
Jun. 21st, 2025 14:4870sscifiart_feedI don't really! I did do one promo one time, but I don't have a system set up to sign them and it seems like a hassle to figure out. Sorry!
Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice.
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It's true. As a solitary person, your fecklessness will make little impact. But if you join together with the most craven senators and representatives in the Capitol, the impact will be immense: The corruption, the disregard for the rule of law, the shipping of residents to foreign gulags, the attacks on judges, the censorship and chilling of speech, the punishment of any and all dissent -- it can be made that much worse if you just find it in yourself to clutch your head in your hands, wet the bed, and cower in the hope of being spared from the White House's wrath.
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“Robotvendor Rex,” by Colin Hay, scanned from Omni Magazine’s February 1986 issue
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Alert Fatigue
Jun. 21st, 2025 19:17urban_feedIn Other Words
Jun. 21st, 2025 17:39futilitycloset_feedIn the 19th century, British polymath William Barnes tried to reform English by limiting it to words of Saxon-English origin. Where no “Teutonic” words were available to express his meaning, he made up alternatives, such as sky-sill for horizon, glee-craft for music, wort-lore for botany, hearsomeness for obedience, somely for plural, and folkwain for omnibus.
In 1948, Richard Lister challenged the readers of the New Statesman to write the opening paragraphs of a novel set in present-day London in this style of reformed English. Reader D.M. Low offered this:
As Ernest was wafted up on the dredger from the thorough-hole at Kingsway he was inwardly upborne to see Pearl again; but, alas, evenly castdown for the blue-eyed bebrilled booklearner was floating downwards on the other ladderway. It was now or never. Ernest fought back against the rising stairs and the gainbuildfulness of hirelings bound for work. Pushing aside fingerwriters, shophelpers and even deeded reckoning-keepers, by an overmanly try he reached the bottom eventimeously with Pearl.
‘What luck! Can you eat with me tonight? I know a fair little upstaker near here.’
‘Oh! I can’t. My Between-go is in Fogmonth, and I must get through and …’
The rumble of the ambercrafty wagonsnake drowned her words.
‘Hark! There’s the tug. I must fly.’
It was hard to be wisdomlustful. Forlorn in his trystlessness Ernest sought Kingsway again and dodging hire-shiners and other self-shifters recklessly headed towards the worldheadtownly manystreakiness of the Strand.
He appended this glossary:
dredger: escalator.
ladderway: escalator.
upborne: elated.
evenly: equally.
bebrilled: bespectacled, (German Brille).
booklearner: student.
gainbuildfulness: obstructiveness.
fingerwriters: typists, cf. dattilografa.
deeded reckoning keepers: chartered accountants.
overmanly: superhuman.
eventimeously: simultaneously.
upstaker (less correctly upstoker): restaurant.
Between go: student slang for Between while try out i.e., Intermediate Examination.
Fogmonth: November.
ambercrafty: electric, lit. electric powered.
wagonsnake: train (archaic and poet.).
tug: train cf. German Zug.
wisdomlustful: philosophical.
trystlessness: disappointment.
hire-shiners: taxis.
self-shifters: automobiles.
manystreakiness: variety.
worldheadtownly: cosmopolitan.
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Saturday assorted links
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2. Progress against severe diabetes? (NYT)
3. Does the federal government need to own all this land out west?
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5. New AI technique for restoring damaged paintings.
6. “I ask how she squares her twin claims that chatbots are bullshit generators and capable of devouring large portions of the labour market.” (FT) No, she does not answer “mood affiliation.”
7. ‘According to Israeli estimates, its interceptions of incoming missiles during an intensive bombardment costs as much as $285 million per night. Each Arrows 3 interceptor is priced at $ 2 million.’ Link here.
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