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FWIW, the answer to Jason's question is "not much" -- through preferred stock, the Sulzbergers have a lock on two thirds of the board of directors. They could elect a director with enough common shares, but presumably subject to covenants to act in the NYT's interests, enforced by very good lawyers.
December 1, 2025 at 5:56 AM
FWIW, the answer to Jason's question is "not much" -- through preferred stock, the Sulzbergers have a lock on two thirds of the board of directors. They could elect a director with enough common shares, but presumably subject to covenants to act in the NYT's interests, enforced by very good lawyers.
The solutions megathread has an example that's 8 lines of Python, and obviously correct, with no fiddly special cases at all. It just squanders computer time. Microseconds of it. Whole microseconds!
(Wasn't me. I got clever, and spent fifteen minutes debugging.)
(Wasn't me. I got clever, and spent fifteen minutes debugging.)
December 1, 2025 at 5:39 AM
The solutions megathread has an example that's 8 lines of Python, and obviously correct, with no fiddly special cases at all. It just squanders computer time. Microseconds of it. Whole microseconds!
(Wasn't me. I got clever, and spent fifteen minutes debugging.)
(Wasn't me. I got clever, and spent fifteen minutes debugging.)
Van Hollen is a Democrat. There are Republicans sounding displeased, though this one at least is making excuses (the WaPo can't possibly have got it right...) bsky.app/profile/atru...
GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "I don't think Secretary Hegseth would be foolish enough to make this decision to say, 'Kill everybody. Kill the survivors,' because that's a clear violation of the law of war."
November 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Van Hollen is a Democrat. There are Republicans sounding displeased, though this one at least is making excuses (the WaPo can't possibly have got it right...) bsky.app/profile/atru...
Believable. If a google search gets you at least the old URL (or you have it saved someplace), the Internet Archive will often get you the text for stuff like this.
November 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Believable. If a google search gets you at least the old URL (or you have it saved someplace), the Internet Archive will often get you the text for stuff like this.
Reposted
If moderate Republicans existed, a Behn win would drive a few of them across the aisle. Damn shame they don't. (Not even in the "problem-solvers caucus", which claims to be a haven for them.)
November 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
If moderate Republicans existed, a Behn win would drive a few of them across the aisle. Damn shame they don't. (Not even in the "problem-solvers caucus", which claims to be a haven for them.)
If moderate Republicans existed, a Behn win would drive a few of them across the aisle. Damn shame they don't. (Not even in the "problem-solvers caucus", which claims to be a haven for them.)
November 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
If moderate Republicans existed, a Behn win would drive a few of them across the aisle. Damn shame they don't. (Not even in the "problem-solvers caucus", which claims to be a haven for them.)
You might've meant to link to Heilbrunn's piece. At any rate, I think this is it... prospect.org/2001/12/19/c...
The Clash of the Samuel Huntingtons - The American Prospect
It's one of the fundamental dilemmas of foreign policy: Should American democracy be for export? Samuel P. Huntington makes a powerful case -- for both sides.
prospect.org
November 30, 2025 at 3:11 AM
You might've meant to link to Heilbrunn's piece. At any rate, I think this is it... prospect.org/2001/12/19/c...
Minor correction: The drug trafficker whose pardon is in the news was from Honduras.
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Minor correction: The drug trafficker whose pardon is in the news was from Honduras.
FWIW, there is a tutorial for reviving these by giving it a "brain transplant" from the cloud service of the company that made it to your own LLM (locally runnable if you have the hardware, or a subscription cloud service). www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWmP...
Saving my favorite robot named Vector from Death
YouTube video by Anoraker
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:40 AM
FWIW, there is a tutorial for reviving these by giving it a "brain transplant" from the cloud service of the company that made it to your own LLM (locally runnable if you have the hardware, or a subscription cloud service). www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWmP...
FWIW, the Leavitt thing appears to have been Leavitt's brother attempting to get sole custody of the kid by having his ex deported, at least judging from the brother urging her to "self-deport" rather than fight extradition.
Probably not the only such case, either.
Probably not the only such case, either.
A mother was taken into custody by ICE. Then the public learned of her family tie to the White House | CNN Politics
Bruna Ferreira came to the US from Brazil as a child, and by all accounts, lived a life like any American: playing on the high school tennis team, getting married and divorced, building a small busine...
www.cnn.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:44 AM
FWIW, the Leavitt thing appears to have been Leavitt's brother attempting to get sole custody of the kid by having his ex deported, at least judging from the brother urging her to "self-deport" rather than fight extradition.
Probably not the only such case, either.
Probably not the only such case, either.
He wants to tax the rich. Many of whom do run small businesses... but it's a different set of rich people that subscribes to The Economist.
November 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
He wants to tax the rich. Many of whom do run small businesses... but it's a different set of rich people that subscribes to The Economist.
Ummm... no such ban has happened yet (viz. "may be" even in the headline). Rooney is trying to get the government to ban her work, by saying royalties will go to Palestine Action.
It's an attempt to make the PA ban look ridiculous. Which it is, so good on her... but let's keep facts straight.
It's an attempt to make the PA ban look ridiculous. Which it is, so good on her... but let's keep facts straight.
November 30, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Ummm... no such ban has happened yet (viz. "may be" even in the headline). Rooney is trying to get the government to ban her work, by saying royalties will go to Palestine Action.
It's an attempt to make the PA ban look ridiculous. Which it is, so good on her... but let's keep facts straight.
It's an attempt to make the PA ban look ridiculous. Which it is, so good on her... but let's keep facts straight.
Or another hegemon, which China seems in multiple ways to be trying to become. They may be less inclined than the US was to engage in the pretense of "rules", but that pretense was kind of thin for the US at points anyway, particularly lately, with all the obvious exceptions for favored allies...
November 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Or another hegemon, which China seems in multiple ways to be trying to become. They may be less inclined than the US was to engage in the pretense of "rules", but that pretense was kind of thin for the US at points anyway, particularly lately, with all the obvious exceptions for favored allies...
Haven't got one, but here's an interview on the same subject...
‘Trump Knows What He’s Doing’: The Creator of Godwin’s Law Says the Hitler Comparison Is Apt
The internet legend explains why the Biden campaign isn’t wrong to compare Trump to Hitler.
www.politico.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Haven't got one, but here's an interview on the same subject...
Godwin himself says you're in the clear. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Yes, it’s okay to compare Trump to Hitler. Don’t let me stop you.
My very minor status as an authority on Hitler comparisons stems from having coined “Godwin’s Law” more than three decades ago.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Godwin himself says you're in the clear. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
At least as I remember it, after Nixon resigned in 1974, it became hard to find anyone who'd admit to having voted for him in 1972... when he won 49 states.
(A bumper sticker of the time read: "Don't blame me. I'm from Massachusetts."...)
(A bumper sticker of the time read: "Don't blame me. I'm from Massachusetts."...)
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
At least as I remember it, after Nixon resigned in 1974, it became hard to find anyone who'd admit to having voted for him in 1972... when he won 49 states.
(A bumper sticker of the time read: "Don't blame me. I'm from Massachusetts."...)
(A bumper sticker of the time read: "Don't blame me. I'm from Massachusetts."...)
Counterpoint -- apartheid did have supporters, including some of those emigres. And while their type may not have been a majority now (though they did win elections a few decades ago), the hard-core ones, including some influential in Silicon Valley right now, can make quite an impression...
So, in high school, a friend’s family had an otherwise nice-seeming South African au pair we brought along to hang out a few times. Until a polite query about how things were in her home country prompted a very casually horrifying rant about how “the bleks” were the root of all problems.
Musk is having another manic posting day, and today he’s leaning into a Musk classic: disgusting racism.
More than 12 posts, reposts, replies in the past 8 hours accusing Black people of being violent criminals who are racist against white people - punctuated by random highlights of his businesses.
More than 12 posts, reposts, replies in the past 8 hours accusing Black people of being violent criminals who are racist against white people - punctuated by random highlights of his businesses.
November 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Counterpoint -- apartheid did have supporters, including some of those emigres. And while their type may not have been a majority now (though they did win elections a few decades ago), the hard-core ones, including some influential in Silicon Valley right now, can make quite an impression...
No zap. Just a live fact-check. On the air immediately. Counting against the candidate's own time.
November 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
No zap. Just a live fact-check. On the air immediately. Counting against the candidate's own time.
FWIW, whatever it was, it was deeply set in already when he was still in high school, harassing hispanic classmates... www.npr.org/2017/08/11/5...
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
FWIW, whatever it was, it was deeply set in already when he was still in high school, harassing hispanic classmates... www.npr.org/2017/08/11/5...
So she thinks that when the Christians came to power, they abandoned "panem et circenses", or something?
(FWIW, just checked -- according to the ever-reliable wikipedia, the dole seems to have continued at least through the fall of the western empire...)
(FWIW, just checked -- according to the ever-reliable wikipedia, the dole seems to have continued at least through the fall of the western empire...)
November 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
So she thinks that when the Christians came to power, they abandoned "panem et circenses", or something?
(FWIW, just checked -- according to the ever-reliable wikipedia, the dole seems to have continued at least through the fall of the western empire...)
(FWIW, just checked -- according to the ever-reliable wikipedia, the dole seems to have continued at least through the fall of the western empire...)
Also support for the radical Islamist mujahideen in Afghanistan, which sowed the seeds of what became the Taliban, and diplomatic support for the remnants of the Khmer Rouge, allowing them to retain Cambodia's UN seat even after the Vietnamese had chased them out of power.
November 28, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Also support for the radical Islamist mujahideen in Afghanistan, which sowed the seeds of what became the Taliban, and diplomatic support for the remnants of the Khmer Rouge, allowing them to retain Cambodia's UN seat even after the Vietnamese had chased them out of power.
He, uh... hired Jimmy Kimmel as an architect?
November 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
He, uh... hired Jimmy Kimmel as an architect?
Ummm... more plausible version below. (Mayo has negligible amounts of protein and vitamins, and if Miller can survive for a month eating nothing else, then his lizard-like metabolic machinery demonstrates biosynthetic capabilities far exceeding mere mammals.)
This started from an anecdote Miller's wife told on a podcast. Mayonnaise is the only condiment he will eat, not the only food he eats. Still weird as hell, and of course it's the white condiment.
November 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Ummm... more plausible version below. (Mayo has negligible amounts of protein and vitamins, and if Miller can survive for a month eating nothing else, then his lizard-like metabolic machinery demonstrates biosynthetic capabilities far exceeding mere mammals.)
From the press office that brought you "the large number of Russian tanks on the Ukranian border with Belarus are there solely for a training exercise".
November 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
From the press office that brought you "the large number of Russian tanks on the Ukranian border with Belarus are there solely for a training exercise".