“The United Townships of Dysart, Dudley, Harcourt, Guilford, Harburn, Bruton, Havelock, Eyre and Clyde, commonly known as the Municipality of Dysart et al”

Things ended okay this time with the climbdown, but I think the lesson from this (and 2017 and 2020) is still that if you rely on being able to travel back to the US, you should stay terminally online and be able to change your travel plans at short notice.

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libertarianism doesn't work because eventually you run out of other people's money and have to borrow it from the US taxpayer

I live in New York. I need options here measured in inches.

In fact, Jay reminds me of Lysenko. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

Fun video on how names are “translated” between China, Japan and Korean. Tl;dr for famous people, China usually uses the underlying Chinese-character name and pronounces it as a Chinese name. For “modern” figures, Japan and Korea generally transcribe the way they would for non-CJKV names.

Beat Macron to it

There’s now something out from USCIS. Still waiting for CBP guidance. www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

Reading Primo Levi’s memoirs. This unc is relatable.

I'm not sure if this take had already actually existed or I just prompted it into being by posing a query that used these words. Anyway, it exists now.

Ah yes when people see “Sankey diagram” they think “energy”

Several flights from the US returned to the gate when passengers learned about the change while on the tarmac. At least one flight wasn’t able to.

This order excludes H-1B visa holders currently outside the US, including those with recently issued visas with a start date on Oct 1 of the new fiscal year. They may be able to enter if they make it to Guam 🇬🇺 on Sep 21 (the earliest they are allowed to enter) before 12:01 am Eastern time.

Great photo essay on Italian leather production in Nigeria (page 13 of The Continent) www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...

Compriamo più pesce surgelato, al discount: cosa acquistiamo di più

Workshopping a joke that as an immigrant trans woman working in the British media, my kinks are "humiliation" and "bureaucracy".

Worth noting here that a visa waiver visitor for business and a standard B-1 visa holder are allowed to engage in the same activities, including installing machinery. The main difference is the period of admission (90 days vs typically 180 days). www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

🇪🇺 the holy angel

The UN Security Council held its 10,000th meeting today

My students really appreciated this meme in class today.

“Political risk insurance was an important risk mitigation tool before BITs took root. Perhaps it’s time to offer foreign direct investors an opportunity to travel back to the future.” Often overlooked in Chinese companies’ expansion abroad (both within and outside BRI) is the role of Sinosure.

Baby’s first Bloomberg byline! (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It’s a GNU/Bluesky account

triplemandatesky, assemble!

The M15 in Manhattan moves nearly 17 million annually, and still doesn't have bus lanes on its entire route. Objectively, what are we doing here?

My big question about any TikTok US deal is not about the algorithm but the content: would there be syndication so American users can see content from the rest of the world?

Powering up: how Ethiopia is becoming an unlikely leader in the electric vehicle revolution A country plagued by power cuts has become the first to ban imports of petrol and diesel cars, as a new dam brings hopes of cheap green energy

It's been a huge week (year?) for digesting China's role in decarbonization and development. Here's the Polycrisis summary: buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...

“Those documents do not allow non-citizens to work in the U.S. in construction or equipment installation.” Half true: they don’t allow construction work, but they do allow installing equipment sold by the foreign employer, when required by the sale contract.

Marco Rubio already has the power to refuse or revoke passports under vague “foreign policy” grounds.

Norge, mitt Norge

A pair of Cornell University students killed a 120-pound black bear before bringing the carcass back to their dorm where they skinned and butchered the remains, officials say.

🐷 China’s pork consumption increased 50% from 2017 to 2023. That’s the kind of growth the USA needs to have to save America’s soybean farmers.

Just tried one of my Latin grammar questions on K2-Think and it got it right. Rare for such a small model.

I think what Ezra Klein humiliating himself--and so many Elite Liberal Pundits leaping to his defense--demonstrates is how important it is to establish that if you liberally and nonviolently advocate for violent and illiberal policies, you yourself are blameless, guiltless, and without culpability

Other Italian ratings: Lazio BBB Milan BBB Milan, Metropolitan City BBB Calabria BBB Bolzano, Province A−

There are third-party “Unicode keyboards” for iOS that let me search for characters by name or browse through all of them. But I can’t find a third-party keyboard that lets me directly input a U+ codepoint.

Macroeconomists will correctly understand how to evaluate science labeled as “gold standard.”

As a neurodivergent person, seeing Jeri Ryan aggressively pushing for time travel scares me.

Big Little Lies: third season of starry HBO drama series on the way

Many years ago, I got into a nasty fight with the late David Graeber over a post I wrote, "The World Economy Is Not a Tribute System." Trump has been doing everything he can to make the argument for Team Graeber stick.

Indeed

Adoro Ischia

South Korean plane in Atlanta for workers detained in immigration raid; departure timeline uncertain www.courthousenews.com/south-korean...

David Fishman on “ghost cities” in China

Oxford uses -ize! In the King James Bible, John the Baptist baptizes people.

Finally. Mobile Wikipedia links are unnecessary and annoying.

huh www.courthousenews.com/profiled-by-...