I don’t think the impulse to isolationism* will ever go away. I wonder if there are American plutocrats dependent on international trade looking askance at other American plutocrats who aren’t, like the Kochs, Mercers, and Sacklers.
*And isolationism, what is that besides an impulse to separate “us” from “them”? Does that impulse end at our border, leaving us one unified whole within our border? I think not.
https://twitter.com/cFidd/status/1002257463553462274?s=20
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Oh good a guide to stalking so happy this is out there and it definitely doesn’t bring back terrible memories of a past partner resorting to extreme measures to ascertain my whereabouts or obtain info about me he had no business knowing
(… But do exercise a LITTLE judgment, I guess.)
https://twitter.com/SpikerIsAwesome/status/1002905910572969984?s=20
«My favorite was when my friend was working the hotline for an election for people to report voting issues.
“There’s two Pakistanis here trying to vote.”
“Okay, are they citizens?”
“I don’t know. But the police are here, and they’re not doing *anything*”»
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/1/17413326/walmart-college-tuition-worker-pay-unemployment
«The Walmart program is limited to online degree programs offered by three schools — the University of Florida, Brandman University, and Bellevue University — and specifically focused on bachelor’s or associate degrees in either business or supply chain management.
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Unlike higher cash wages (which of course can be used for online college tuition as well as rent, gasoline, movie tickets, medical expenses, etc.), the tuition benefit is likely to be disproportionately appealing to people who are on the more ambitious end of the distribution. It’s an effort, in other words, to make Walmart more attractive specifically to the most appealing set of potential workers, a strategy other companies have pursued in recent years.….
Academic research shows that workers who are interested in tuition subsidies are different from workers who are not. While everyone likes money, Peter Cappelli’s 2002 research indicates that the workers who like tuition subsidies are more productive than those who don’t, and Colleen Manchester’s 2012 research shows that subsidy-using employees have longer time horizons and are less likely to switch jobs.»
«Experts in surveillance technology say that IMSI catchers — sometimes known by one popular brand name, StingRay — are a standard part of the tool kit for many foreign intelligence services, including for such geopolitical rivals as Russia and China.»
Chilling and listening to Tubular Bells (on Pandora), surfing the news, and I click on some CNN story, and I get… some autoplayed video with sound. Even muting it doesn’t help. Goodbye, Mike Oldfield. Having straightened that out, guess what news story I’m not reading? #payattentionCNN
Edit: oh, look, here’s a Washington Post story with auto-play video and NO SOUND. Pandora plays on. Ahhhh….
«If someone made money trading on a tip from the President, who do you think they’re making it from?
It’s you. Your retirement account. The money’s got to come from somewhere, after all.»
https://twitter.com/JustinWolfers/status/1002539579210174465
Wow. Every life needs poetry.
“Wise hesitation.”
Here, Read This 