New by Corey Hutchins at What Works: Newsletters and blogs that cover a state's media landscape are few and far between. whatworks.news/2025/07/29/news…
By Corey Hutchins Over the years, the crisis facing local news has meant the disappearance of reporting on the arts, politics, sports and local government. Newspapers have disappeared from many loc…
The New York Jets signed kicker Nick Folk, coach Aaron Glenn told reporters Tuesday at training camp. Folk spent last season with the Tennessee Titans.
According to the United Nations Population Division, Latin America will make the demographic shift from a young to an aging society in less than 40 years.
ChunChun (USA) helped his humans declutter by knocking a clock, a humidity gauge, a remote control, a pen, and a book off of an end table in the living room. To his dismay, the items were replaced shortly thereafter, giving him even more work to do.
Trump conquered America by pulling together a coalition of groups that broadly hate the same things, but who differ sharply in what things they aspire to. This approach creates a broad and therefore powerful coalition, but it's also a brittle one:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
Victory is deadly to any coalition that agrees on what they want to destroy, and violently disagree on what they want to build. Once victory is attained, some of those groups are going to get what they want, which means other groups are going to absolutely *eat shit*.
I have project student working on some basic Berkeley sockets based networking code. They demo their work, I compliment them on their use of netcat. Blank stare. I say, well, you're using
cat "Hello" | nc localhost 9999
Turns out the student has no idea why they are doing this. 😕
Another works on a combination of an interpreter and an assembler. They made the assembler the entry point in the code. Turns out they have no idea of the difference between interpreter and an assembler. Despite me providing working code to start from. 😕
Also, none of them have even the most basic knowledge of the command line, neither on windows nor on linux. They keep snippets in a text file and copy and paste them.
Student: <copies and pastes a snippet> d Project/src me: you forgot a "c" at the start Student:... Student: <hits return regardless> sh: command not found: d Student: ... me: you forgot a "c" at the start Student: <copies the line again. this time with the "c"> 😭
“Meet the…investors funding a Christian nationalist community in Tennessee ….Nate Fischer heads the company [New Founding] financing the so-called ‘Highland Rim Project’ … Among its investors is tech billionaire Marc Andreesen.” By @philinvestigates.com 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
For the politically connected investors behind the project, our NewsChannel 5 investigation has now discovered, it’s about business, power and creating an alternative view of America.
" ... why I take Greyhounds, to meet people. Despite everything I wrote above, almost all of it which reads negative, sitting here now, looking back, I'm very glad I did this journey, because I met a lot of people I would have never encountered otherwise. Tough, troubling, but almost all genuinely decent human beings.
"That's why I encourage everyone to walk and take buses whenever you can, because you end up dealing with people who remind you what humanity actually is. Not the polished cartoonish version we're supposed to aspire to, but the far more common messy, complicated, and resilient version."
Acquisition sends thousands of Whistle pet trackers to IoT graveyard Whistle pet monitors will stop working on August 31. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
“Agency employees may seek to ‘persuade others of the correctness of their own religious views’ in the office, wrote Scott Kupor, director of the Office of Personnel Management” - 7/28/25 (Kupor is a former partner of tech billionaire Marc Andreessen) 1/
2/ “Scott Kupor, the first hire at Silicon Valley venture capital powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz, is stepping away from active management of dozens of funds but maintaining passive stake in nearly 40 other firm funds, as the Senate weighs his nomination by Trump...” 4/3/25
“Meet the…investors funding a Christian nationalist community in Tennessee ….Nate Fischer heads the company [New Founding] financing the so-called ‘Highland Rim Project’ … Among its investors is tech billionaire Marc Andreesen.” By @philinvestigates.com 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
For the politically connected investors behind the project, our NewsChannel 5 investigation has now discovered, it’s about business, power and creating an alternative view of America.
Whistle‑blower Lt. Col. Tony Aguilar, a 25-year Green Beret, Purple Heart, fresh out of Gaza, joins Offir Gutelzon and Award‑winning journalist Noga Tarnopol...
Morning Walk Report: An exceeding short ramble, since Boxnoggin chose to forego brekkie. Still, several rabbits were in evidence, crows performing aerial tricks for peanuts, bees in the zinnias, the lavender, the alyssum.
The FBI, according to CBS, has a copy of the video from outside Jeffrey Epstein's cell on the night he died which includes the so-called "missing minute."
This would be very bad news for the travelling public in the United States. The correct approach is to invest in capacity to move both people and freight, because a thriving economy needs both. freightwaves.com/news/bill-aim…
Hawk missiles are old but reliable. Ukraine wants every one of the 40,000 America has stockpiled
To strengthen Ukraine’s air defenses against Russia’s growing missile and drone attacks, the US has approved a new deal that taps into a vast Cold War missile stockpile.
Due process: What it means in U.S. law & its implications for migrant rights tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep… As the United States edges up to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026, the core principle of due process - that the government must act with accountability and in accordance with the rule of law – is being strongly tested. #Tucson #Arizona
What did the ancient Stoics think was included within the cardinal virtue of prudence? Here's a short video looking at what Arius Didymus tells us in his Epitome of Stoic Ethics, where he identifies six distinct subordinate virtues encompassed by prudence
Stoic Philosophy makes virtue absolutely central to ethics. If you want to be happy, tranquil, and free, the Stoics think, you must cultivate virtue. Among t...
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Victory is deadly to any coalition that agrees on what they want to destroy, and violently disagree on what they want to build. Once victory is attained, some of those groups are going to get what they want, which means other groups are going to absolutely *eat shit*.
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