Now do Canada.

Well, crap, there's an embarassment of riches but I have to go with:

A perfect example of capitalist incentives leading to worse outcomes is checked baggage on planes. To squeeze more money out of passengers, airlines now charge exorbitant fees for checked bags – so everyone brings carry-on rollers instead, so there’s never enough room in the overhead bins.

So, Thiel, Hoffman and Musk too, right Mr. Khanna?

Mark Carney’s overall economic approach has been backward-looking: an emphasis on natural resource extraction and reliance on low-tax, market-led, small-government economic ideology that was stale in 2008, and is definitely not suited to a world of geostrategic competition.

The Fastest (68k) Macintosh Might Not Be an Amiga Anymore

other98 Musk sacked 80% of staff when he bought Twitter. Bezos is sacking 14,000 people to replace with AI. Microsoft are cutting 4.1% or jobs (9,100) to replace with AI. Intel are cutting up to 25% or staff to replace with AI. What's that about billionaires creating jobs?

Hey @indivisible.org, how is that Epstein files page you mysteriously took down after people kept pointing out Reid Hoffman is paying the bills. Are we going to continue to get denied access?

It's quite funny in a sad way, to suggest with a straight face that nowadays, alas, rich folk no longer huddle up and figure out how to use their privileges to get away with a crime or two. Come on now. That's literally the point of wealth, since the invention of money.

NYT: Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York Where Pedophilia Was Practiced the “Right Way”

Never mind the horror of building a lost cause narrative for raping teenagers, I’m struck by the fact that they’re straight-facedly claiming that this is all over and in the past when Donald fucking Trump is president?

Oh yeah, sure, New York elite society is /famously/ no longer "clubby". Sure. Right.

During the 2016 election they would have Maggie Habberman do absolute fluff prices on Trump and never acknowledge that her mother is an executive at the firm that did Trump’s P.R. So not surprised The NY Times is leaving out that their owner is in the Epstein files.

I'm sorry, I'm still having a hard time getting over that the owner of the NY Times is in the Epstein files thing and they haven't even acknowledged this in any reporting.

On this day, 38 years ago, The Sisters of Mercy released their second studio album, the polished classic that is Floodland.

The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right. There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture join.greenparty.org.uk

Dems: "We need to talk about things that matter to real Americans" Mamdani and others: wins a huge mandate on economic justice issue Dems: "No, not like that! We meant thst we need to figure out how much racism, sexism and homophobia is acceptable!"

Picked up a not-an-IBM-AT for twelve dollars. It comes with a not-a-model-M keyboard. Now to see if it works.

"how institutions are *using* Trump threats to do much of what their leadership (including boards & investors) want to do" "We can stop doing this thing we started doing from 2020" "like an example of Harvard using the Trump administration's assault as an opportunity to undermine campus unions"

A question: did the NYT run the Nuzzi piece to take attention off their catch-and-kill about Epstein and Trump?

Restoring the corporate tax on REITs would also dampen investment fueled housing inflation. Expired during Harper's government. Trudeau promised to reinstate the tax, but never did.

When you have first hand experience of something they report on you immediately realise how detached their reporters are and how little they actually verify truth. E.g. If were in Canada during the World Series you would know that nobody actually said "glue jays". bsky.app/profile/nyti...

So I'm giving this a watch for the firs time in a while and it's uncomfortable to watch on several levels, but it's especially prophetic now.

It should be illegal to own more than two residential properties

I'd vote for whomever would implement this policy.

Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject

It's gotta be frustrating for journalists scraping by and doing great work to go to NY Times dot com and read a puff piece written by a nepo baby that whitewashes a journalist who had sex with a source and has now parlayed that into a new book and a job at Vanity Fair

I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.

Marit Stiles warns of water privatization in Ford government’s omnibus bill

Jeff Bezos paid $50 million for a wedding. He just got a $16 billion tax break. He just laid off 60,000 people. And you're furious about a kid getting a free school lunch?

Why are renters outpacing homeowners? Well, it could be that more and more housing is being bought by investors and that more and more people can't afford to buy a house and are forced to rent. It maybe it's just millennial Zoome hipster lifestyle avocado toast…

a “Space Force”, if you will

Jesus fuck. We desperately need universal healthcare. We should pressure our reps to pass universal healthcare since they fucked us with the ACA and healthcare subsidies. sports.yahoo.com/article/jame...

A CNN employee and alleged journalist coaching the worlds most notorious pedophile on how he to elude consequences and letting him know in advance what questions will be asked to help him should be getting a hell of a lot more attention.

I dunno about Trump but I sure hope these emails take down the NYT

Seems like the NYT was doing a National Enquirer Catch and Kill on info Epstein was handing to Tom Landon at the same time Maggie Haberman was pushing an anti-Hillary book. I'm interested in how they are going to address this.

Wasn’t expecting the Epstein scandal to blow up the New York Times but sure, why not

There’s no Rust on this Ironclad Kernel

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative. The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

"If a country as rich as Norway can’t afford to stick to principles, who can?" Great edition of the Free Lunch newsletter today by @martinsandbu.ft.com on Norway suspending its $2.1 trillion oil fund's ethics rules. www.ft.com/content/f6b3...

The board takeover that was really about real estate. "Those decisions have raised significant concern among several TDSB trustees about how school properties could be sold, and to whom, at a moment when the board supervisor has signalled a coming change in the organization’s operations." #OnPoli

As Harris tacked right on foreign policy, immigration, and climate change, liberals were insisting that “the centrism is working.” It wasn’t. It was deflating enthusiasm as voters realized Harris stood for nothing except her right to succeed her boss. www.currentaffairs.org/news/kamala-...

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

Eyes Wide Shut was a documentary

Catch and Kill apparently reached well past the National Enquirer.

Exhibit #2585849 on why the NYT is absolutely, positively corrupt and why Sulzberger needs to be crucified.

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015 What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

In the US, law enforcement isn't just legally allowed to lie to you, they're ENCOURAGED to. OTOH, your lawyer is legally prohibited from lying to you and can lose her license for it. Which of those professions, though, do you reflexively associate more with lying? You're not immune to copaganda.

Hopefully it won't take as long to realize that Carney's austerity program and incentive-focused, private sector-led "nation building" is the exact wrong approach for this moment. A well-funded, high-capacity state is the sine qua non of Canada getting through this.