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Book Review: How Plagues Are Intertwined With Social Justice
Conor Gallagher
Conor here: I think the question posed at the end is one a lot of people are working through, and none of the answers are reassuring. By Ramin Skibba, an astrophysicist turned science writer and fre ...[Continue Reading]
Nakedcapitalism.com
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Brokering A Piece; An Antitrust Case, You Say?
AdExchanger
Public Data, Public Good Heres a new front in the data broker and tracking trend. Nebraska State Auditor Mike Foley has been on a mission to stop state employees from using state vehicles for per ...[Continue Reading]
AdExchanger
1 day ago
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How George W. Bush Created ICE
Julian E. Zelizer
In a high-stakes standoff on Capitol Hill, Senate Democrats have withheld funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) until Republicans agree to reforms of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enfo ...[Continue Reading]
Foreign Policy
1 day ago
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Process-Based Concurrency: Why Beam and OTP Keep Being Right
Variant Systems
Every few months, someone in the AI or distributed systems space announces a new framework for running concurrent, stateful agents. It has isolated state. Message passing. A supervisor that restarts ...[Continue Reading]
Variantsystems.io
1 day ago
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Yankees news: Ryan Yarbrough heads for Team USA
Kevin Winterhalt
Sportsnet: Another Yankee is off to represent their country at the World Baseball Classic. This time, it is southpaw Ryan Yarbrough, who is joining Team USA as an injury replacement for Joe Ryan. If ...[Continue Reading]
Pinstripe Alley
1 day ago
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Bahrain announces one killed, two injured by falling debris from intercepted missile
The Star Online
MANAMA: The Bahrain Ministry of Interior announced that one person was killed and two others were injured as a result of falling debris from a missile that had been intercepted, Qatar News Agency (QN ...[Continue Reading]
The Star Online
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