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· 11 Shevat 5783 (Thursday 2 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read
Tyre Nichols wasn't murdered because of "affirmative action" by Radley Balko
Rather than defend an indefensible murder, right-wing pundits have latched on to a narrative that's somehow even more appalling
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· 11 Shevat 5783 (Thursday 2 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read
Can This Black, Latina, Progressive, Pro-Police DA Turn San Francisco Around? by Tim Miller
A conversation with Brooke Jenkins about drug dealers, judges, and reforms that don’t fit on a bumper sticker.
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· 11 Shevat 5783 (Thursday 2 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read
Trump Is Losing the Grifter Class to DeSantis by Jonathan V. Last
And they matter more than you might think.
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· 11 Shevat 5783 (Thursday 2 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read
The audacious rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia by Lee Hutchinson
The untold story of the rescue mission that could have been NASA's finest hour.
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· 11 Shevat 5783 (Thursday 2 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read
The self-fulfilling prophecy of React
The only thing React is better at than other front-end frameworks is being popular. So how long will that self-perpetuating cycle continue?
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· 10 Shevat 5783 (Wednesday 1 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read
- Finished Reading: Amanda's review of Macklin's Women (The Gunsmith, #1)
2/5: The sex scenes were entertaining, just not in the way the author probably intended.
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· 10 Shevat 5783 (Wednesday 1 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read
- Reading: Amanda's review of The Chinese Gunmen (The Gunsmith, #2)
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· 10 Shevat 5783 (Wednesday 1 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read
- Reading: Amanda's review of The Heathens (Quinn Colson #11)
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· 10 Shevat 5783 (Wednesday 1 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read
- Reading: Amanda's review of Macklin's Women (The Gunsmith, #1)
2/5: The sex scenes were entertaining, just not in the way the author probably intended.
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· 10 Shevat 5783 (Wednesday 1 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read
Converting to Orthodox Judaism Is a Lot. Here's How 3 Women Did It. by MICHELLE HONIG
Living an Orthodox Jewish lifestyle is hard. Rabbis repeatedly test converts to give them a way out.
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· 10 Shevat 5783 (Wednesday 1 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read
Jewish comedian Modi Rosenfeld, a mainstay for Orthodox audiences, is gay. So what?

“Being gay, you can keep Shabbos, you can keep kosher,” said Rosenfeld, who attends a Modern Orthodox synagogue in the East Village. “You can keep anything you want to do.”

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· 10 Shevat 5783 (Wednesday 1 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read
Getting Serious About Police Reform by Mona Charen
Training and accountability are key to ending this awful cycle.
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· 10 Shevat 5783 (Wednesday 1 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read
A Fundamental Disconnect by Aaron Gustafson
Yesterday at BlendConf, Scott Hanselman gave a fantastically-entertaining keynote entitled “JavaScript, The Cloud, and the rise of the New Virtual Machine.” In it, he chronicled all of the ways Web development and deployment has changed—for the better—over the years. He also boldly declared ...
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· 10 Shevat 5783 (Wednesday 1 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read
A Short Guide to MAGA "Conservatism" by Charlie Sykes
What it is. And what it isn't.
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· 10 Shevat 5783 (Wednesday 1 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read
Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm
Performance, accessibility, and usability are more than just inconvenient truths you can pretend don’t exist. They have a direct impact on the quality of someone’s life…
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· 10 Shevat 5783 (Wednesday 1 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read
Charles McGonigal and the Deep State by Jonathan V. Last
What if the Deep State was real?
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· 9 Shevat 5783 (Tuesday 31 January 2023) · 0 minutes to read
Covidiocy Marches On by Cathy Young
Revisionism and recriminations abound as skepticism of “establishment” science becomes a tribal identity marker on the right.
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· 9 Shevat 5783 (Tuesday 31 January 2023) · 0 minutes to read
Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty by Emily Oster
Let’s focus on the future, and fix the problems we still need to solve.
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· 9 Shevat 5783 (Tuesday 31 January 2023) · 0 minutes to read
If You Just Do What The Police Tell You . . . by Jonathan V. Last
Unprofessional policing kills people.
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· 9 Shevat 5783 (Tuesday 31 January 2023) · 0 minutes to read
Speed for who? by Andy BellAndy Bell

Frameworks are often touted as something like “a lightning fast development experience” and that’s fine I guess, but the speed is in the wrong hands. Why not “a lightning fast experience for your users”? Sure, some frameworks will claim to be very fast for end-users with some very meticulously, massaged data to “prove” that, but […]

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