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Builder of tech, startups, and ATL.

O(1) chill.
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At northwestern it shall hence be called no Black students allowed Friday
Announcing this not just on a Friday, but on the most holiday weekend of all Fridays, def shows how proud Northwestern’s admins must feel for caving in to bad faith attacks like this.

And, in the process, leaving all universities that still have a spine in more vulnerable positions than before.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”

People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Colleges are paying the US government for the privilege of admitting fewer students of color.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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What do these corporations have in common?

Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel

In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.

This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar & writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas & the history of Palestinian resistance, points to 3 factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed...
November 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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when you’re trying to evade capture after WWII ends:
November 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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“Your cultural heritage would look brilliant in the British Museum.”
November 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Some of the names on this chart are in even better shape as they are using raw debt to equity instead of net debt to equity. Eg $GOOG has $37B in debt but $100M in cash.
Explaining Oracle CDS
November 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:

Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
November 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Every week now there’s a story that proves the UK’s lack of a bill of rights is a disaster
"I myself have publicly advocated the use of direct action, including property sabotage, in the cause of climate justice. It stands to reason that I should support the same range of tactics in the effort to prevent genocide."
Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban, court told
Rooney has said she intended to use royalties from her work "to go on supporting Palestine Action."
www.bbc.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Love this
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen

Lucy Pearl
Walk The Moon
Mary J. Blige
Culture Club
Prince
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen

Maná
Spice Girls
SWV
Ozomatli
Janet Jackson
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen

Chris Isaak
Prince
The Jacksons
Jackson Brown
Red Hot Chili Peppers
November 28, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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they are removing a big australian beach christmas artwork from redfern station (a huge train station) because it's ai garbage. kangaroos have koala heads and some animals have missing limbs and one of them is WEARING A BRA
November 28, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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WIFE: I learned that the day after Thanksgiving is the busiest day of the year for plumbers...

ME: Because everyone clogs the toilets?

WIFE (eyes narrowing): ... because people dump turkey grease down the sink.
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Wait this is the first time I’m noticing Al Zaidi got pulled down backwards after launching the second shoe.

Pretty impressive head-movement defense by Bush.

Solid display of athleticism all around.
Maybe American journalists should reflect on the courage of Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi.
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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The inventor of the open plan kitchen wanted to be able to sneak bites of dinner all day without having to help cook.
November 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Early Gen X is the last generation to see what building adequate housing even looks like (construction everywhere, all the time).

If we even attempted to build enough, there are two generations of adults who would say we are overbuilding and try to slow it. Housing is cooked for a long time.
YTD through August the US is average 4.0 housing starts per 1,000 population. In Canada that figure is 6.2.
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Olivia Nuzzi isn't unique but a symptom of a news media so thoroughly and willingly complicit in fascism that almost none of it will survive the necessary denazification.
November 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Wondering if Benz is selling this at a loss & planning to stop sales if it gets too popular…
I don't see how Tesla's Model 3 can survive if Benz can offer an alternative EV this cheap, with this kind of performance, on top of the 15% tariff that it's charged in the US.

Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM