Let's listen to Mulatu Astatke!
You're welcome.
Let's listen to Mulatu Astatke!
You're welcome.
Sinéad O’Connor, acclaimed Dublin singer, dies aged 56 – The Irish Times
I remember seeing her in 1990 at a lovely outdoor venue. When she sang Nothing Compares 2 U, the place was absolutely silent.
, the United States joined a growing list of countries that allow for a third gender option (“X”) in passports. This policy also allows transgender applicants to self-select their gender as “male” or “female” and removes the requirement to provide medical documentation if their gender does not match other identification documents. The change also effectively permits any U.S. citizen (not only those who are nonbinary, intersex, or gender-nonconforming) to opt out of sharing their gender by choosing an X.
I believe this means Republicans now have to boycott Xitter.
The Ayn Rand Institute, named for conservative philosopher Ayn Rand, received a [COVID relief] loan of between $350,000 and $1 million, which it called “partial restitution for government-inflicted losses."
“It would be a terrible injustice for pro-capitalists to step aside and leave the funds to those indifferent or actively hostile to capitalism ,” Ayn Rand Institute board member Harry Binswanger argued in May, stating that the organization would “take any relief money offered us.”
Loan Amount
$713,100Amount Forgiven
$721,697
Includes any accrued interest
A creepy anti-government shmibertarian jerk tank got $713K in free money. Talk about horrible injustice.
X is here! Let’s do this. pic.twitter.com/1VqEPlLchj
— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) July 24, 2023
Behold Monotype's Special Alphabets 4 font!
It is 𝕏, the "Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X".
I hope the designer got paid in advance.
Florida public schools will now teach students that the once constitutionally protected system under which enslavers bought and sold human beings had an apparent upside. In addition to being subjected to maiming , beatings, rape and murder, enslaved Black people “developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
I've never heard of a job training program that requires the enslavement of 10 generations before someone graduates (an event marked by the slaying of most of the 'teachers') with a degree in being a farm hand.
This is an actual CNN headline:
Why a third indictment of Trump could be such a profound stain on his legacy
Hey, let's check out this new Threads thing! Obviously, it's over here at Threads.com.
Yep, that sure does look like a Twitter-style chat app.
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But shouldn't it say something about its parent company , Facebook Meta?
And what's this ?
Wow. They sure are going out of there way to pretend it's not associated with FB. And what's with all the "teams" and "developer" stuff?

"... in years?"
What is going on?
[5 minutes of internetting]
Oh. So the Twitter-killer Threads is actually at Threads.net. And it's mobile only?
Way to go, Meta. Much simplicity.
In two studies, 5- and 6-year-old children were questioned about the status of the protagonist embedded in three different types of stories. In realistic stories that only included ordinary events, all children, irrespective of family background and schooling, claimed that the protagonist was a real person. In religious stories that included ordinarily impossible events brought about by divine intervention, claims about the status of the protagonist varied sharply with exposure to religion. Children who went to church or were enrolled in a parochial school, or both, judged the protagonist in religious stories to be a real person, whereas secular children with no such exposure to religion judged the protagonist in religious stories to be fictional. Children's upbringing was also related to their judgment about the protagonist in fantastical stories that included ordinarily impossible events whether brought about by magic (Study 1) or without reference to magic (Study 2). Secular children were more likely than religious children to judge the protagonist in such fantastical stories to be fictional. The results suggest that exposure to religious ideas has a powerful impact on children's differentiation between reality and fiction, not just for religious stories but also for fantastical stories.