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X Corp owner Elon Musk taunts Bob Iger, says Twitter 'will be gone' if advertisers keep boycotting.

Posted on Thursday 30 Nov 2023. 552 words, 2 links. By Matt Webb.

Bailed-out major airlines have outsourced ground work to subcontractors. Injuries and fatalities on the tarmac are taking off.

Tesla’s anti-union stance is colliding with the EU’s strong labor laws.

Sparks fly as Elon's Musketeers sue for license plate liberation

Today on TAP: The uses of small magazines in the battle of ideas

Refusing to be pushed into traditional child-rearing roles, young women in China are quietly posing a challenge for its male-dominated government.

A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime.

The saga of a species that knows not its place.

In The New York Times , three members of the Strother School of Radical Attention make a case for a new way of thinking about education (gi...

At Contrapuntalism , a great statement from Nadia Boulanger : “Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or try...

Attention education is the most powerful thing we can do for ourselves, for one another, for democracy.

EIA Winter Fuels Report: heating with electricity will cost 77% more than heating with natural gas; NuScale SMR project gets cancelled

Fear as a motivator is misguided and counter productive. In order to create a culture of trust, loyalty, and stability, forgo fear-driven leadership.

Software is eating the world. … All of the technology required to transform industries through software finally works and can be widely delivered at global scale. … Software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries—without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees. … With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired. (

One of humanity’s key superpowers is our cultural plasticity: we change our species by each as kids copying the adults around us. Such humans can consistently be well aware that humans at other times and places are quite different, as long as we see each such cultural version as well-suited to its situation; we would each want to act and think like them in their situation.

"I am 20 minutes into the presentation when a woman interrupts me. 'When are you going to talk about God in all of this?' she asks."

Republicans are rallying behind the X owner’s challenge to Media Matters.

The March 30 episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.”

Everybody who was Anybody had Dr. Feelgood and his Speed Shots on Speed Dial - Editor's Picks - Messy Nessy Chic

Why is the mainstream media peddling the gun lobby’s fake stats on Black gun ownership?

In just one generation, ticket-splitting has become increasingly rare in a state with a long history of independent voting.

I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving! I had a very nice time myself visiting my family and staying with my in-laws and getting together with old high school friends. Then after that like all good cosmopolitan liberals everywhere I sat down to read this delightful new essay by celebrated

How we calculate the state freedom index for each category.