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https://twitter.com/cstross/status/1009774992668659712
«Holy crap: Type II diabetes associated with accumulation of pigment-grade titanium dioxide nanocrystals in the pancreas (replacement for earlier lead carbonate white pigment). Pilot study: if statistically significant studies support this, it’s dynamite.»
Interesting:
«A sizeable portion of the nearly 100 million users who have come online through Internet.org live in Myanmar, where Facebook partnered with local telco Myanma Posts and Telecommunications for the program in mid-2016. The social network went on to serve as an accelerant to violence and ethnic cleansing-related hate speech. Cost-free access to Facebook’s services has seen Facebook’s own user base in the country skyrocket from two million in 2014 to 30 million last year. (Users who sign up for Internet.org are required to sign up for Facebook first, and Free Basics works by not counting Facebook use against a limited data plan; therefore, if users do most browsing through Facebook, they can use the “internet” essentially for free.)
But by August, the Free Basics program, which is part of the Internet.org initiative, abruptly ended in the nation, users say; using Facebook was no longer free of cost on a data plan. “It all just stopped working one day,” May, a Yangon-based college professor told The Outline. Facebook’s free internet service, she said, was immensely popular in her city.
Myanmar is not the only place where Free Basics has quietly ended. The program has been abruptly called off in more than half a dozen nations and territories in the recent months….»
Source: https://theoutline.com/post/4383/facebook-quietly-ended-free-basics-in-myanmar-and-other-countries
Good article. I think this is the heart of it:
«Why is it important to recognize that today’s progressive brawlers have a rich and fruitful historical legacy inside the Democratic Party? Because those activists’ tendency to view the party as a monolithically hostile, alien force carries with it a major downside, which was all too painfully manifested in 2016: Useful critique and insurgent energy can curdle into cynical disaffection.»
I don’t think this is what this article is about, primarily, but this bit just POPPED out at me:
«The [Democratic] party contained within its ranks not only a growing cohort of Northern liberals but also a powerful faction of racially and economically conservative Southerners. The latter, advantaged in Congress by the seniority system, worked with Republicans to bottle up legislative proposals for civil rights and labor reform.
Such efforts helped account for the era’s uniquely high levels of bipartisanship and low levels of party polarization»
People pining for the old days of bipartisanship and collegiality might actually be pining for the above without knowing it.
Kind of like the warm fuzzy thoughts of “reconciliation” after the Civil War that left black people out.
«In its budget request for fiscal year 2018, DHS said that it cost about $133.99 per day to hold an adult immigrant in detention and $319.37 for an individual in family detention. Meanwhile, the agency said the average cost of placing someone in an alternative program is $4.50 per day.
….
To the president and other immigration hawks, these alternatives to detention represent what they consider the failed “catch-and-release” policies of the previous administration.
But these programs do work, and they do allow the government to enforce immigration laws effectively. And they are far better than the nightmare of separating families, or keeping them together in jail with no end in sight.»
Thread.
Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) Tweeted:
9/In any case, this should be a lesson: Don’t listen to nativists without fact-checking everything they say.More often than not, they’re either misinformed or feeding you a line.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/krauthammer/563534/
I would substitute something else for “conservatives suspicious of Obama’s “New Foundation,” but I guess that can’t REALLY be Krauthammer’s fault, can it?
«For conservatives suspicious of Obama’s “New Foundation,” Krauthammer’s evening commentaries were homiletic. They provided comfort and guidance: comfort that such a brilliant man shared one’s opposition to the president and the direction of history, and guidance in how to criticize the progressivism of Obama and his inheritors.»
Stupid Google image search. He would have gotten away with it, too, ….
Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) Tweeted:
Mike Huckabee appears to have gotten his picture from the website of Richard Spencer’s Nazi think-tank (National Policy Institute). https://t.co/Ov4vBl0mDE https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1010535939666513920?s=17
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