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Shawn Fain’s Slate Has Swept the UAW Elections
Shawn Fain and the United UAW slate are headed toward a sweeping victory in the union’s internal elections for its International Executive Board. The results will not be finalized for some time, but the unofficial results are unequivocal: United Auto Workers members are overwhelmingly backing Fain and the militant direction he is taking the union.
- Main - Kottke.org Read
Is This Weird Quiz Game the Toughest F1 Video Game Ever?
It might be that this text-only quiz game from 1993 is the most challenging F1 video game of all time. Here are a couple of the 23 questions from Gerhard Berger’s Formula 1 Quiz:
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Eric Hobsbawm, Historian of Defeat
Five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the communist historian Eric Hobsbawm published his best-selling history of the twentieth century, The Age of Extremes. The book presented a man coming to terms with the fate of the political project to which he had committed his adult life while trying to understand the twentieth century as a historical epoch.
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Abdul El-Sayed Isn’t Backing Down on Medicare for All
The discourse around Abdul El-Sayed’s position on Medicare for All is mostly confused. Reading most of the reporting on the matter would lead one to believe that El-Sayed initially supported Medicare for All but now merely supports a “public option.” This is not really true under conventional meanings of the phrase “public option.” El-Sayed seems to be inviting this understanding for rhetorical effect, but all he has really done is drop his opposition to a type of duplicative insurance that nobody would ever want to buy.
- Main - Kottke.org Read
Bill McKibben: I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We
Bill McKibben: I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This. The human nervous system wasn’t designed for the polycrisis. “Among all the other dangers these developments represent, they’re simply wearing us out.”
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Anwar Shaikh’s Analysis of Capitalism Is Vital for the Left
Most economists assume that when workers with similar skills earn very different pay, something must be blocking normal competition. But for Howard Botwinick, capitalist competition itself creates those gaps. His book Persistent Inequalities: Wage Disparity under Capitalist Competition, first published in 1993 and reissued in 2017, shows how the everyday workings of capitalism split the working class into better- and worse-paid groups — no monopoly power required.
- Inverse Read
Star Wars Fans Are Cranky. But Star Wars Fan Fic Writers Are Having A Blast
The Star Wars fandom hasn't been united in years — but can fan fiction be the key to harmony?
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Pedro Sánchez Makes His Last Gamble
Less than two weeks after a wave of housing protests broke out across Spain, on Monday center-left Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called an early general election. Upending the country’s political agenda in just days, the protests created an opportunity for an embattled Sánchez to go to the polls on more favorable terms. He is now framing the election as a choice between his defense of the social majority and right-wing parties aligned with speculators and vulture funds.
- Inverse Read
5 Years Ago, James Bond Pulled A Massive Course Correction — And Changed Pop Culture History
Léa Seydoux and Daniel Craig's lack of chemistry is kind of the point. Let's talk about 'No Time to Die.'
Antarctica’s penguins are sending us a distress signal
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
- Inverse Read
‘Avatar: Seven Havens’ Is A Fantastical Mystery Box — And A Major Overcorrection
'Avatar: Seven Havens' is a promising fantasy epic... it just doesn't feel like Avatar.
- VentureBeat Read
Anthropic’s Cyber Mission starts with 6,157 findings reported, 516 patched
Anthropic’s dashboard shows 6,157 findings reported to open-source maintainers and 516 patched. Its Cyber Mission routes frontier models to 11 OT providers.
- VentureBeat Read
Why giving AI agents more compute isn’t enough—and what Meta proposes instead
Giving agents more compute doesn’t always improve results. Meta’s new framework helps them decide how to spend their budgets on productive work.
- VentureBeat Read
H-JEPA teaches world models to plan at multiple levels of abstraction
H-JEPA learns representations of the world at different timescales, enabling AI systems to break complex goals into smaller, more manageable planning tasks.
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‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ at New York Comic Con Recap: Crime-Fighters Cry Too
Dan Goor, Joe Lo Truglio, Melissa Fumero, and Stephanie Beatriz had NYCC in both kinds of tears
The Controversial Life Of Robert Wagner And His Troubled Marriage To Natalie Wood
Robert Wagner’s wife, actress Natalie Wood, drowned under mysterious circumstances in November 1981.
No one wants to be “Data Center Dave”
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Melting Ice In Southern Norway Just Revealed Dozens Of Prehistoric Arrows Dating As Far Back As 6,000 Years
Archaeologists exploring Kvitingskjølen mountain recently came across dozens of prehistoric arrows dating as far back as 6,000 years.
- Main - Kottke.org Read
In 1996, the Blondin family drove all around the US
In 1996, the Blondin family drove all around the US, blogging about it all before “blog” was even a word. “We were doing something that had no name and no manual, and we were doing it over a dial-up modem while living in a motorhome.”
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