“We can pretty much do whatever we want to right now.” A Republican Kentucky state representative exemplifies the mindset of many conservative policymakers after the November elections turned America’s statehouses and governor’s mansions further red. / ProPublica But they’re now using it to create financial instruments and hedge
How to see dead people again and again: Industrial Light and Magic explains re-birthing Leia and Tarkin for the latest Star Wars film.
The incoming Ghanaian president is being lampooned for lifting passages word-for-word from George W. Bush and Bill Clinton for his inauguration speech.
From Matt Bruenig: “The average person in the top 1% receives a UBI equal to 7.5 times the average income in the country.” / Medium “Chuck [Schumer] wants issues to have no negatives, but it’s the Trump era. He’s looking at polls showing 60 percent for the Carrier
Ever wonder how comics get made? A master class conversation on the writing and illustrating process, with Limbo creators Caspar Wijngaard and Dan Watters.
Footage of the Senate’s Obamacare repeal vote, which passed 51-48. Watch on mute, pair perhaps with a dirge of your choice. ↩︎ posted Jan. 9, 2017 Obamacare less popular than its synonym, the Affordable Care Act Obama says he’s happy to let Trump take up the healthcare reform
“I asked white people a book they read that made them first learn about racism. And so many people said fiction or books of poetry.” The day after the election, someone asked Eve Ewing if she had anything to say about it. Just as she was about to say no,
Mind-hacking is happening, misunderstood, in some cases pretty serious, and it leads to levitating chairs Mind-hacking: everyone’s doing it. Of course, being Americans, it’s not enough for us to just do drugs for pleasure or escape—we want to be more productive, more efficient, better workers.
For people like me, failure is not being able to raise $100,000, and then when I go to angel investors seeking funding, they ask me if I’ve raised any money. It’s like I’ve already failed because of the color of my skin and not having my
The vaquita is the world’s smallest porpoise, and there are only several dozen left. Somehow, it makes more sense for the United States to train heroic mine-detecting dolphins to find the vaquitas than it does for China to crack down on the imports of totoaba fish bladder that
