Back in 2010, I had to evacuate from Los Alamos mid-afternoon ahead of the Cerro Grande Fire. I went to a friend’s house in White Rock. My mother was in the residential care home, and they evacuated to the Presbyterian Church in White Rock. At 1:15 the next morning, we had to evacuate White Rock. …
Pre-DNC Debate Open Thread: The NYTimes Looking to Polish Up Its Anti-Democratic Credentials Tonight
NYT's hosting its first presidential debate tonight in 15 years — and first in Twitter age. One Times journalist suggests to @joepompeo that “the angry left blue-check-mark mob will find something to be outraged about.” https://t.co/715HSpbyaR — Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) October 15, 2019 Because twelve candidates, each with their own agenda, is not enough of …
Plutocrats on the Run
Well, this is interesting (The Post): Group of top CEOs says maximizing shareholder profits no longer can be the primary goal of corporations The organization representing the nation’s most powerful chief executives is rewriting how it views the purpose of a corporation, updating its decades-old endorsement of the theory that shareholders’ interests should come above …
Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing
Facebook paid kids as young as 13 to install spyware on their phones to track their every move, and they snuck around behind Apple’s back to do it: Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a …
Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Can We Come Up With A Better Tag Than “Comeygate”?
COMEY FIRED: PROTEST AT WHITE HOUSENOON WEDNESDAYRSVP: https://t.co/cdYk1EVXVsPlease RT & share on Facebook pic.twitter.com/xPstDbaI6C — Ben Wikler (@benwikler) May 10, 2017 And it's official: Trump will meet w Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov tomorrow in Oval Office, per White House, lone event on his sked — Julie Davis (@juliehdavis) May 10, 2017 TOMORROW: All Senate …
Long Read: “Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich”
The mega rich are buying doomsday houses in New Zealand, and now we learn that Peter Thiel even got citizenship https://t.co/wC7fjTiCpT pic.twitter.com/BK4J9RfJrh — Matt Novak (@paleofuture) January 24, 2017 Citizen Thiel has a cunning plan for his escape pod! And the NZ whale-wranglers and hobbit-handlers find him as simultaneously risible and unsettling as the rest …
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De mortuis nil nisi verax – Open thread
I didn’t encounter Phyllis Schlafly often – we were on opposite sides of the ERA campaign, and I made sure to avoid her for the most part because, well, because she wasn’t a very pleasant woman. I did once slip her a shit ton of acid stashed in a blueberry brownie before a debate, but …