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At the moment, I'm not referring to American electoral politics, at any level. At the moment (it could change…). A gentle reminder when choosing allies: Even if he's "our bastard," at the next opportunity he'll prove pretty definitively that he's still a bastard. (Partisan allegiance and gender immaterial.) Exhibit A: Cozying up to Stalin during the Second Thirty Years' War. Exhibit B:

From horror visionaries Blumhouse Television, and Cake Boss creators High Noon Entertainment, Killer Cakes is a one-of-a-kind competition show where bakers with terrifying skills attempt to win some of the most frightening challenges ever produced for television. Contestants will work with the best horror special effects artists in Hollywood to unleash their twisted imaginations and create cakes so disgusting, so disturbing, and so realistic, that it’s the stuff of nightmares. …

Wow, it's the site's 44 millionth hit. As usual, these "hits" aren't a measure of humans visiting pages; that count would be much lower. It's just requests to the website: every time a robot visits some page, the count goes up. If a human views a page that contains a dozen graphics, those graphics cause another dozen hits. So "a million hits" isn't as impressive as it sounds. But hits …

In a recent article Wanda Diamond League announced that the prize money distributed to athletes during the series and the final will get a boost, increasing by almost 30 %. Reading the article I realised that I did not know precisely what are the financial conditions now. (Unfortunately the article does not give any precision concerning next year). So I tracked down the prize list of this year's Diamond League. …

1. Just a Female Street fight duel with sand-filled socks Published in “Le Petit Journal” November 1st 1902: There are Apaches of both sexes as seen recently in the rue du Général-Morin. Louise Henin, a beautiful girl of twenty, became mortally angered by Andrée Merle, twenty-three years, for reasons difficult to specify.

I recently finished preparing Powerpoint slides for a talk titled “Ahead of the Trends: J.N.K. Rao’s Contributions to Survey Research,” that I will present in November at the Statistics Canada International Methodology Symposium on “Shaping the Future of Official Statistics.” After submitting my slides, which discuss how Rao’s work anticipated major trends in survey research, I grew curious whether an artificial intelligence (AI) system would identify the same contributions as …

Disrupting traditional western understandings of time that separate human history from natural history, Planetary Temporality recognizes that these two modes of history are now inseparable, and that meeting planetary challenges will require that we go beyond our lived experience of time, to think instead in terms of our deep-time embeddedness in the Earth system.In contrast to anthropocentric “global” issues, “planetary” issues such as climate change and biodiversity operate on vastly …

During the Cold War, the US intelligence community was able to track the development a major new Soviet warship class using satellite imagery. Dwayne Day describes how those images helped analysts provide key insights into the building of the Kirov.

Saw a youtube of a CNN screamfest last night, a four-on-one shitlib beatdown of a crackerbarker, when crackerbarker said Harris need be on live microphone more if Harris wants to win the crackerbarker was not wrong regardless the heckling shitlib cawing. I completely and comprehensively understand why people despise motherfucking professional shitlibsHere's the guy many motherfucking professional zionist shitlibs are still angry motherfucking zionist Kamala Harris didn't name vpotus signing …

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Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius. St. Martin’s Press, 2024, 400pp., $30.00. * * * Published on the heels of Mark Harris’s[...] The post Book Review: Carrie Courogen, <em>Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius</em> appeared first on Bright Lights Film Journal.

Ah, committees… how do you get your colleagues to do the work we all know needs to be done? Here (semi)regular contributor Greg Crowther suggests some techniques borrowed from journal editing and peer review. This fall, after years of avoiding substantial committee work, I will chair a campus committee for the first time. I didn’t […]

Review: The City in the City: Architecture and Change in London’s Financial District by Amy Thomas. A guest post by Paul Ranogajec. A City unto Itself? Lloyd’s London headquarters building opened 18 November 1986. Just three weeks earlier, Margaret Thatcher’s ‘Big Bang’ had lifted entry restrictions to the stock market and had opened the City […]

To slow down time. Life feels longer when there’s more of it to look back on. Take more photos and you preserve more memories. The more you do it, the richer your life looks in retrospect. Here are some photos I’ve taken with my iPhone 15 Pro Max this year:

Shoutout to Steve for this goddamned masterpiece. The boys have had their first day in court? I think? Or not? A couple of points here.If it was cancelled/postponed, why is there a courtroom drawing? "A number of witnesses" appears to mean "Steve's wife and Doug"I would really like to know if Councilor Ron Ashmore will be taking the stand in defense of his good friend Bill...This was posted in Steve's …