The VPRI video archive got some more addition. A box was left behind when we moved out from an old office, more than 10 years ago, but the box was kept by the care taker. The box had 20 or so video tapes, and those are digitized.
So an insane story by @musharbash_b, a private equity roll-up of fire trucks is why more than half the fire trucks in Los Angeles were out of service during the catastrophic wildfires in the Palisades and Eaton.
NYT: I.R.S. Expands Its Free Tax Filing Option - The Direct File system will be open to millions of taxpayers in 25 states, up from 12 last year. 💥
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🇺🇸📑 Common Wealth is launching a new US research & policy program.
Trump has returned to power. The far right is becoming even more cemented in US politics.
🧵 We must build an alternative progressive political project. But what would this look like?
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@daniel_dsj2110 Yeah because you will have scavenged the book from a local dealer in exchange for a 14 year old can of Spaghetti-Os and a pencil sharpener, just so you can take it back to read by (scented) candlelight in your hovel nestled in a smouldering crater
@daniel_dsj2110 Widespread social media use is a return to a kind of "primary oral" culture (in the Ong sense), which is ripe for mysticism, rumors, hysterias, etc. It shouldn't be surprising!
The top 10 billionaires increased their wealth by $589.4 billion so far this year.
56% of Americans don’t have the savings to cover a $1000 emergency.
Wealth hoarding by oligarchs is crushing the working class.
This isn’t Right vs Left — it’s the top .01% vs the rest of us.
This took a lot of hard work. We are proud to announce a new Taiwan Studies track of the East Asia MA program at the University of Washington. This would be the first Taiwan Studies graduate degree in North America (and second in the world). Apply by Jan 31 for fall 2025!
there was a time when grown men could put on tuxes for the photo-shoot of the cover of the book on the newest version of their sweet programming language and i am furious just absolutely enraged at what they have taken from us
A brilliant 3D scanning demonstration at the Fitzwilliam Museum, kindly run by @CHPrager and Antje Grothe for the VIEWS team and a group of students. We learned a great deal!