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Saturday, October 16th, 2021
David P. Goldman blames the Web technocracy for the end of the American era, comparing it to how Britain lost dominance through the corruption of empire: by eschewing the true wealth creation of manufacturing.
Britain’s best and brightest left Eton and Harrow and went into colonial service, and made fortunes on the sale of British textiles to India, Indian opium to China, and Chinese tea and silks to the West. Britain’s country houses were built on the quick money to be earned from empire, and the British upper class eschewed the dirty work of manufacturing in favor of the faux-aristocracy of the nouveau riche masquerading as landed gentry.
The estimable Goldman is somewhat wrong here I think; web software is much more about conjuring up something from nothing, albeit an intangible digitized something, than it is just shunting stuff around at gunpoint, as he says late-Empire Britain did.
Thursday, October 14th, 2021
Hiconsumption presents the lovely Lambos.
Wednesday, October 13th, 2021
I think that if we were told 40 years ago that Bill Shatner would actually go into space at age 90, we’d think things turned out pretty well.
Monday, October 11th, 2021
National treasure David Mitchell knocks it out the park with his (SPOILER WARNING) review of No Time to Die.
The main spoiler is: they’ve spoiled it. The producers of No Time to Die have spoiled Bond – either a bit or totally, only time will tell.
Another darn piece that expresses perfectly what I was thinking and that I didn’t write myself. This is one where I feel: no matter what, I couldn’t have done it quite this well, this straightforwardly.
Friday, October 8th, 2021
I had to read this snooty bit of exhibitionism at Gawker (must the devil have all the good web design?) slowly to keep track of what and whom the reader is supposed to consider virtuous versus vile. One through-line that helped was, like in a Hollywood movie, the bad guys have British accents.
Regarding the author’s complaint of British transphobia, one possible cause: due to cultural proximity and thirst, the Great Leap Forward emanating from the USA arrives first at Britain’s more grounded doorstep, with the resulting crockery-dropping rejection most clearly heard when ricocheting back across the pond.
Thursday, October 7th, 2021
Human egalitarianism was a social revolution within the primate order.
Sarah Chayes, Everybody Knows: Corruption in America
Geoff Boeing at Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis, USC, on the griddiness of cities — what an awesome topic for a rigorous paper!
All 16 cities with the lowest entropies are in the US and Canada. Outside of the US/Canada, Mogadishu, Kyoto, and Melbourne have the lowest orientation entropies. Surprisingly, the city with the highest entropy, Charlotte, is also in the US. São Paulo and Rome immediately follow it as the next highest cities. Chicago, the most ordered city, has a φ of 0.90, while Charlotte, the most disordered, has a φ of 0.002.
Venice, Mogadishu, Helsinki, Jerusalem, and Casablanca have the shortest median street segment lengths (indicating fine-grained networks) while Kiev, Moscow, Pyongyang, Beijing, and Shanghai have the longest (indicating coarse-grained networks).
From the bubbling, dexterous mind of Venkatesh Rao we have two rich essays posted within two days: “Storytelling — Cringe and the Banality of Shadows” and “Remystifying Supply Chains: Supply chains are TV for matter”.
The supply chain crisis is in some ways more unprecedented than Covid itself, given that containerized supply chains, and the world of distributed, networked, computationally coordinated production they enabled, are only a few decades old.
This is the first crisis of this magnitude to hit them.
To find a comparable crisis in history you have to go back to World War 2, with U boats sinking transatlantic shipping. And that was in an era when global trade was less than a third of today’s levels if I’m not mistaken (as a fraction of GDP) and still in the ancient mode of breakbulk shipping.
Angry divides over cultural and identity-group issues often mask—in fact may be deliberately used to mask—unanimity at the top of the system when it comes to condoning or participating in corruption.
Sarah Chayes, Everybody Knows: Corruption in America
Wednesday, October 6th, 2021
Criminalizing the criminalization of politics is akin to the wonder performed by Aeschylus’ Eumenides, which turned revenge into law—high statesmanship.
Angelo Codevilla, The Ruling Class
Monday, October 4th, 2021
Londonist visits the two new Tube stations, Battersea Power Station and Nine Elms.
Sunday, October 3rd, 2021
Leaked papers reveal King Abdullah of Jordan has spent some $106m on Anglospherian homes. While it’s nice he chooses Malibu and London — and why not — might the story spur domestic unrest?
What a great piece on the dysfunctionality of online advertising at the now-defunct The Correspondent, “The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising” [2019] by Jesse Frederik and Maurits Martijn.
Picture this. Luigi’s Pizzeria hires three teenagers to hand out coupons to passersby. After a few weeks of flyering, one of the three turns out to be a marketing genius. Customers keep showing up with coupons distributed by this particular kid. The other two can’t make any sense of it: how does he do it? When they ask him, he explains: “I stand in the waiting area of the pizzeria.”
Saturday, October 2nd, 2021
As rather beautifully cogently introduced by The Center For Peace Communications, Yossi Klein Halevy has written a book that invites replies, and which serves, uniquely as far as I know, as the exquisite Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor: A New Conversation About Narratives and Peace website.
Thursday, September 30th, 2021
More Stanford student bikers are observed wearing masks than helmets. OK now it’s just a pandemic of idiocy.
Also today I noted a pic of Israel’s foreign minister Yair Lapid stepping out of an aircraft at Bahrain’s airport. He was alone on the middle steps, his aides up top at the aircraft doors, the welcoming committee on the tarmac, yet he was masked. Covid theater undermines our public confidence in following sensible guidelines when they are actually sensible and salutary.
Sometimes you come across an essay you intended to write and somebody’s more or less done it for you, in this case an attempt to philosophize on the concept of work by Jonathan Malesic in the University of Virginia’s Hedgehog Review.
A few nights ago I considered for the first time the direct semantic connection between the troublesome English term “happy” and the less fraught “happening”; happily, there seems to be a connection between them that’s not mere happenstance. And here this essay begins to explicate that thought:
The Crow [a Native American tribe who live on the northern plains] built their culture around hunting buffalo and “counting coups”—an activity that encompasses both feats of bravery in war and recitations of stories about those feats. Once white settlers killed off the buffalo and placed the Crow under the US government’s jurisdiction in the 1880s, the basis for Crow culture was gone. “After this nothing happened,” the Crow chief Plenty Coups told a white historian decades later.
Brian May with Rick Beato for an hour. Beato is like the Charlie Rose of music if Rose had been head of CIA or something — Beato’s been a session musician, music professor, studio owner, etc. And like the meticulous mega-talented pros they are, just as the interviewer covers his topics so the guest does all the talking (and glorious playing).
Tuesday, September 28th, 2021
Graffiti at Melbourne IKEA: NO JEW JAB FOR OZ, as reported by The Algemeiner. People can be so demented.
Scit-scat and a motherfuckin’ scats. “Tenacious D’s “You Never Give Me Your Money” with music vid by Taylor Stephens. The End.
Anne Helen Petersen writes about Revenge procrastinatory bedtime — I’m guilty myself of practicing it and have noticed it lately, so it’s good to see the phenom labeled and articulated:
It’s illogical and annoying and only makes things worse. But it’s also what our souls do when we refuse to nourish them. They sabotage our most perfect intentions for sleep, because sleep is not the same as leisure. Don’t get me wrong; sleep is great. It can be deeply restorative. But it also requires us to be, well, unconscious.
Sunday, September 26th, 2021
Safari in iOS 15 is enough of a redesign to warrant reading a primer. Thanks, TidBits, for Josh Centers’ “Hot New Features in Safari in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15”
Want to close all open tabs so you can start fresh with Tab Groups? Press and hold the Done text label to reveal the secret option. Why Apple hid it there is baffling, and there’s zero indication that “Done” would have any secondary function.
The ruling class’s campaign regarding public health, global warming, race, the rights of women, homosexuals, micro-aggressions, the Palestinians, etc. etc. have far less to do with any of these matters than with seizing ever more power for itself.
Angelo Codevilla, “The Covid Coup”
It’s tough living in a place where everyone think it’s ok to be an asshole.
Gavriel Peretz [on Israel]
In what turned out to be his final essay, “Graveyard of Narratives”, Angelo Codevilla excoriates America’s response to 9/11, even going so far as to point out that it wasn’t really fully clear just how involved Osama Bin Laden was. Codevilla:
Since WWII, whether in the name of anti-communism, anti-terrorism, democracy, or humanitarianism, it’s always the same: dismiss the substance of local quarrels; recast the local scene in terms of American elites’ concerns…
Saturday, September 25th, 2021
David Goldman eulogizes Angelo Codevilla, strongly hinting his belief that the 78-year-old geostrategist’s death by drunk driver was no accident. The two men had been corresponding, and were in agreement that America is in trouble, though Codevilla was at pains to point out that regardless of its own mindblowing fecklessness there are certain realities in America’s favor:
As currently important and as pregnant with long range consequences as the new realities are, to what extent do they override, FOR RUSSIA the reality that CHINA is ten times as populous and thrice as productive per capita, and racially incompatible, and next door? Let us put ourselves in Putin’s icy shoes: Up to what point is American decline in Russia’s interest? Does he really want China to be the Western Pacific’s undisputed mistress?
Friday, September 24th, 2021
A new iPhone, a new Austin Mann camera review, this time in Tanzania:
Although the iPhone 13 Pro still only has three lenses, the addition of macro capability is like adding a new lens altogether, and for the serious photographer I think it’s perhaps the strongest advancement in this year’s camera system.
It’s the greatest gig in the world, being alive; you get to eat at Denny’s, wear a hat, whatever you wanna do.
Norm Macdonald
Tuesday, September 21st, 2021
Concentration is a systemic feature of the American political economy.
Matt Stoller, “This is Not a Democracy, It’s a Cheerocracy: The Cheerleading Monopoly Varsity Brands”
Matt Stoller explains how one company, Varsity Brands (owned by Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital), sucks life out of the American heartland with its grotesque monopoly on cheerleading.
Sunday, September 12th, 2021
This graphic in Scientific American details dozens of autoimmune diseases and the bodily systems they target.
If there’s one thing to read on this 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, perhaps this is it, a narration of the 9/11 film “by Jules Naudet, a French-born documentary filmmaker working with his brother Gédéon on a film about a rookie firefighter at a station in Lower Manhattan.”
One of the men sent up the stairs by Chief Pfeifer is his younger brother, Kevin. He will never see him again. As Jules Naudet’s camera pans over the faces of the firefighters in the lobby of the North Tower, you realize with shock that his footage, which includes Kevin Pfeifer, is the last time many of them will be captured for posterity.
This is so full-throated by David Horowitz (posted by John Hinderaker at Powerline). Entitled “The Read Existential Threat”, it rings very true to me, given the unforced error that is the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Anti-white racism, and ignorant attacks on the American founding – these constitute the greatest existential threat to America. And the fact that Black Lives Matter fictions make up the crippling doctrine of our military leaders should wake everyone to the menace we face. There never has been a greater threat to our patrimony and freedom since the darkest days of the Civil War.
Gordon Brander thinks seriously about the Web vis-a-vis mobile.
By now, the web’s network advantage had evaporated. The iPhone’s native apps were internet apps, sandboxed, and talking HTTP, just like a web app. The iPhone was designed for a world that included the web. The web was not designed for a world that included the iPhone.
Saturday, September 11th, 2021
Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
Clive Thompson
I enjoyed Clive Thompson’s Wired piece “Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t” wherein he considers task management software as a kind of religious devotion:
To-do lists are, in the American imagination, a curiously moral type of software. Nobody opens Google Docs or PowerPoint thinking “This will make me a better person.” But with to-do apps, that ambition is front and center.
This bringing of theology and things of the spirit into the seemingly more mundane world of computing reminded me delightedly of Umberto Eco’s whimsical comparison of Mac vs Windows as Catholicism vs Protestantism.
So I was hopeful for Thompson’s book Coders, especially after reading the fun first Amazon Kindle sample chapter, and because I am increasingly embracing the identity of coder, given that it’s what I’ve ended up doing almost all my 21/2-decade professional life, and want to know just how much I fit the profile.
Well. I’ve come across writers before whose magazine articles impress but pall at book length. Mr Thompson’s interviewees so often “sigh” as they are clunkily pulled out of the aether to buttress his current argument, and I found particularly jarring that a provocative thought by one fellow — Dijastra, no less — is quoted using “he hissed” — though by then the mechanics of the book were transparent enough to predict the desultory “he has a point”-esque follow-up.
In thematic tandem with the book’s stale style, it degenerates into a long squawk of racial social injustice obsession. What pops into mind is the searing tedium of hearing Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” at every gas station across America.
So come rain or shine, this one’s going out on the street, and tech chronicler Clive Thompson will need to re-earn his welcome.
Tuesday, August 31st, 2021
In googling what appears to me the flimsiness of the Jewish edict to not eat milk with meat, I came across Michael Harvey’s Times of Israel blog post “Why Separate Milk and Meat?” in which he argues it’s all a misreading of the word “milk” in “You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.”
The word for milk features certain vowels underneath to make the sound of chalev, distinguishing the word from others. Why is this important? Well, there happens to be another Hebrew word with the exact same letters, Chet, Lamed, Vet, but is pronounced, instead of chalev, chaylev. And that is the word for fat, as seen in such passages as Leviticus 7:23: “You shall eat no fat of ox or sheep or goat.” Could this commandment have actually been referencing fat instead of milk?
Thursday, August 26th, 2021
The new Nike spin on “Just Do It,” is basically, “At Least You Tried.” Sports journalist Ethan Strauss launches a Substack newsletter.
Wednesday, August 25th, 2021
To understand post-vaccination Covid, read “Israeli data: How can efficacy vs. severe disease be strong when 60% of hospitalized are vaccinated?” by Jeffrey Morris, a statistical data scientist at the University of Pennsylvania. [via Marginal Revolution]
Saturday, August 21st, 2021
A tour de force from lest we forget Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan on, well, nothing less than the current American moment.
Friday, August 20th, 2021
Rather nice if you have some moments: “Art Deco jewellery: a revolution in form and function” at Christie’s, each pagescroll another exquisite or at least colorful thing.
Friday, August 13th, 2021
An interview with Bret Stephens — Ha, I know of at least two falsehoods here. Some fun comments too.
What’s with Bahrain’s DERASAT thinktank signing an agreement not just with an Israeli counterpart, Jerusalem’s JCPA, nor even with two, also Herzlia’s AEI Abba Eban Institute for International Diplomacy at the Interdisciplinary Center, but now with three, adding Tel Aviv’s INSS. That doesn’t seem right to me; pick a counterpart.
On the INSS web site, the visit warrants not just the top story position but the heading “Special Announcement”. At JCPA it’s no longer the top story but the headline is prefixed “History:”. The Abba Eban Center doesn’t seem to have a news facility. Yet over at DERASAT, the post about the agreement with the JCPA (which a few days later is no longer even discoverable on their website) did not contain the word “Israel”. And there’s no mention at all of the two more recent agreements.
Wednesday, August 11th, 2021
On an Israeli TV news panel, here is Issawi Frej in career-defining, full-throttle top-flight impassioned co-existence mode, making religious Yesh Atid MK and former Minister of Education Shai Piron choke up on air.
An introduction to Issawi Frej, Israel’s Minister for Regional Cooperation, on YouTube by The Khaleej Times.
Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in the universe.
David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity
Sunday, August 8th, 2021
La Maison Xun, a restaurant in Beijing by LDH Architects, featured in Archinect.
Saturday, August 7th, 2021
In this Al-Jazeera coverage of the protests comprising the anniversary of the Beirut explosion, the word “Hezbollah” doesn’t appear at all.
Thursday, August 5th, 2021
Is this a new method of diplomatic forum? Israel seems to have hosted its own mini-United Nations Security Council meeting by presenting to a gathering of ambassadors from the sitting UNSC countries; it’s bloody genius. Is that Lapid taking his current job seriously and imaginatively? Looks like it.
Wednesday, August 4th, 2021
John McWhorter on “Black Fragility”:
DiAngelo, you may have heard, has a new one out. But do you really need to read yet another book about how white people just don’t get it? After all, roll the tape again and the main theme of intelligent black thought might not be so obsessed with this notion that black America must sit mired in charismatic anomie until white people “get it.” Imagine a black America all about not “Why don’t they get it?” but “How do we get ours regardless?”
As Israel finally passes a budget, Mansour Abbas, leader of the Islamist Raam party, appears to have been the kingmaker, is budgeted an unprecedented $16b for infrastructure, crime, healthcare, education and transport.
Newsroll ↻
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With Coercion and Black Boxes, Russia Installs Digital Iron Curtain...
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Intel Warns of Efforts by China to Collect Genetic Data...
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ANDROID...
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Beijing vows no concessions on Taiwan after Biden comments...
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UPDATE: DRUDGE APP IPHONE, IPAD...
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Moscow Jets Buzz Alaska Airspace as Tensions Spike...
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Who let the dogs out? Mystery disappearance grips Spain volcano isle...
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Putin slams 'cancel culture' and trans rights; Teaching gender fluidity 'crime against humanity'...
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Why no tusks? Poaching tips scales of elephant evolution...
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Could dominate advanced technologies...
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'60 MINS': Ex-Saudi Official Accuses MBS of Trying to Kill Him...
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Group says it will train Christians on 'hand-to-hand combat' at MO event...
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Heated behind closed doors with Bernie...
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New Zealand Wants 90% Vax Rate. Street Gangs May Hold Key...
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CLAIM: MA Excluded White Students From Events...
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In Virginia, a Test of Messages Ahead of Midterms
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Carter's Presidency Haunts Biden on Supply Chain Crisis
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Biden Tax, Spending Plan Begins to Collapse
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Is McAuliffe 'Losing It' in Virginia?
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The Freedom to Vote Act is Almost Certainly Doomed
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Dems' Push for Federal Control of Elections Going Nowhere
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Pence Already Cashing In on His Potential 2024 Run
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The Case Against a GOP Presidential Coronation
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Rand Paul Was Right-Anthony Fauci Is a Liar
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Smearing Popularism Does Not Help Black Voters
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We Must Stop Facebook From Election Meddling
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Colleges and Universities Owe Black People Restitution
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The Reality of 'Anti-Racism' Across America
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Thomas Jefferson and the Battle for America's Soul
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Will Democrats Betray Their Promises to the Middle Class?
Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.
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Karl Lehenbauer, “Tcl: The Tool Command Language – Lisp for the Masses”
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The War over Academic Freedom
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Bid to unionize Amazon workers in New York nears milestone
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Google takes two-to-four times as much as the fees charged by rival ad networks
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A different and often better way to downsample your Prometheus metrics
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Eleven reasons to switch from Windows to Linux
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Wall of Sound
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Acho (YC W20) Is Hiring
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Police can’t demand you reveal your phone passcode then tell a jury you refused
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New Kubernetes high severity vulnerability alert: CVE-2021-25742
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Our Content Removal Transparency Report for January to June 2021
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PyTorch 1.10
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FOSDEM 2022 will be online
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Governments turn tables on ransomware gang REvil by pushing it offline
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Magit, the magical Git interface
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A summit at cross purposes: Putin talked about Syria; Bennett’s concern – Iran
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Putin to Bennett: I hope you continue former government’s ties with Russia
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Bennett meets Putin at Sochi
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Israel’s $1.5bn shopping list for a potential offensive on Iran’s nuclear program
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Drone attack on US base in southern Syria
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Two explosions on military bus in Damascus kill 13
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US moves to Arabian Gulf a new robotic marine-air task force operated by AI
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British police confirm MP murder was terrorism
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A British Conservative lawmaker stabbed to death while meeting constituents
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Iran’s biggest ever air defense exercise – “ready for any threat” from US or Israel
Prepared for the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
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Israel's Boycotters Are Only Prolonging Conflict in the Middle East
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A U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem Will Redivide the City
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Australian Parliamentary Committee Recommends Full Banning of Hamas
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Drone Attack Targets U.S. Troops in Syria
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Israeli Ambassador Calls on UN to Hold PA, Iran Accountable
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Sally Rooney's Anti-Israel Stance Flows from a Long Irish Tradition
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Palestinians Riot outside Jerusalem's Old City on Tuesday
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Photos: 2,000-Year-Old Engraved Amethyst Seal Found in Jerusalem
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Swedish Foreign Minister: Corruption an Obstacle to Economic Support for Palestinian Authority
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Saudi Arabia Is No Longer a Kingdom of Hate
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Iran Won't Stop until It Has a Nuclear Weapon
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New European Survey Finds Anti-Semitism, Anti-Israel Bias
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Is a War with Iran over Nuclear Weapons Inevitable?
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BDS Supporters Display a Strange, Selective Animus Against the Jewish State
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The Threat to Israel from Precision-Guided Munitions
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Moulded or folded, this wood stays strong
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Rhino puzzle and China’s COVID vaccines — the week in infographics
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Oceans like neurons
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Climate change: Nature readers say their fears are growing
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Lessons from history on climate and pandemics: Books in brief
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Viking presence in the Americas pinpointed by ancient solar storm
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Ancient DNA points to origins of modern domestic horses
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Tips for collaborating with scientists, from a philosopher
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Daily briefing: Extinct Japanese wolf is dogs’ closest cousin
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Defeating the genome’s guardians boosts a DNA-editing tool
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Immunogenicity and efficacy of heterologous ChadOx1/BNT162b2 vaccination
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Author Correction: Cotranslational prolyl hydroxylation is essential for flavivirus biogenesis
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How to make your research reproducible
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How the pandemic widened scientists' mentoring networks
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A COVID vaccine elicits a middling but durable immune response
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In South Sudan, flooding called ‘worst thing in my lifetime’
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Ancient and modern fuse together at the Indian pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai
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In Iraqi Kurdish city, women gain power without parity
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Lebanon Christian leader summoned over deadly violence
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Woman dies in crash, run over repeatedly on pitch-black Lebanese highway
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Tunisia president promises ‘dialogue’ over political system
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Israelis in West Bank flashpoint dig for new neighborhood
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P5 countries call for protection of civilians amid Houthi offensive on Marib
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Rival Sudan camps take to streets as tensions rise
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Syria says 24 executed over starting wildfires
A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute, edited by Brian C. Anderson.
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Midnight Orders
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The Ghost of Kitty Genovese
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Will the Hispanic Right Turn Last?
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In Thrall to D.C.
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Transition to Nowhere
California’s switch to a primarily solar and wind-powered grid is a dead end.
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Can outspokenness on diversity programs undermine a scholar’s academic standing? The strange case of Dorian S. Abbot
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Is Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” a mournful elegy to artistic devotion or — as a new book argues — a malicious catcall?
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What killed The Believer? For starters: financial distress, a scandal involving the editor, and callous mismanagement
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Should the university be a political engine for radical ends? The idea horrified Robert Nisbet, chronicler of academic dogma
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“There is a case to be made for self-published Adult Baby Diaper Lover (ABDL) erotica as the quintessential Amazonian genre of literature”
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Stephen Crane died at the age of 28. Had he not been so reckless, American literature might now look quite different
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Hannah Arendt was Princeton’s first female faculty hire, and later its first female full professor — honors she was profoundly uninterested in
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Swedish rapper Einar, 19, shot dead in Stockholm, a year after being abducted
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China ramps up electricity imports from North Korea, Russia, Myanmar in bid to ease power crisis
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Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins killed by prop gun, just as her career was taking off
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Top US spies predict more dangerous world as climate changes
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Alec Baldwin fires prop gun, killing cinematographer and wounding director on set of Rust: sheriff
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Latest US hypersonic weapon test fails, amid Chinese missile concerns
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Gabby Petito’s fiancé Brian Laundrie found dead in Florida wilderness, FBI says
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Britain’s Queen Elizabeth back home after first night in hospital in years
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Drug lord Pablo Escobar’s lawyered-up hippos recognised as people by US court
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US lawmakers hold Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon in criminal contempt
Brain candy for Happy Mutants
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19th-century women went nuts for Franz Liszt, music's first celebrity
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New study reveals that domesticated horses may have originally come from Russia
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California hiking family and dog's cause of death finally determined
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Watching the live action model for the 1982 Garfield TV special compared to the final animation is an absolute delight
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A robot tugboat just made a successful 1000-mile journey overseas
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What if Kraftwerk made a Dune concept album? Now we know the answer.
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The house from Nightmare on Elm Street is for sale
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Tim Curry as the mindblowing Grand Wizard in 1986's 'The Worst Witch'
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"Kid-size" Covid vaccine doses effective, says Pfizer
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Accused pedophile Matt Gaetz no longer eligible to practice law in Florida
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Prosecutors assigned to Matt Gaetz case
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What finger counting reveals about you
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VTOL electronic vehicle flies one and is yours for $92k
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Clap along to a 7/4 beat
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The Price of COVID-19 Risk In A Public University
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What I’ve been reading
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Straussian Beatles, Paul McCartney solo edition
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Covid facts to ponder
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Thursday assorted links
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Understanding the Rise in Life Expectancy Inequality
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Optimism about Mexico a story of compounding returns
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My Conversation with Stanley McChrystal
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Wednesday assorted links
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Causal Inference at Twitter
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Long soccer Covid
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Medicaid coverage doesn’t seem to help for diabetes and asthma
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What is going on in this Malaysian-Chinese libertarian video of the year?
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Tuesday assorted links
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Make TeleMedicine Permanent
Where the design community meets.
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Imaging for Science and Life: How to Design for a Medical Company?
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Design ECommerce App or Website
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I'm giving away a 2021 macbook pro to a product designer
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20+ Best Finance Illustration Collection
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11 Stunning Examples of Tab-based Navigation
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Best Free Illustration for your project. https://vector.cx/
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The Biggest Reasons You Should Go With Custom Web Application Development
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An Introduction to Digital Prototyping
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Design Healthcare App like ZocDoc
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WFH Setup - Product UX Designer Workspace + Desk Tour
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Continuous learning: Using human insight to build remarkable products with Jason Giles
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Take the 2021 Design Tools Survey
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Monument Valley fanart (MagicaVoxel)
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Define Wearable Technology & How UX Works For It
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The easiest way to turn your Figma files to Webflow websites
Rumors and news on everything Apple since 1997
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Apple's iPod was one of the biggest risks the company ever took
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How to use Apple Music's new mood playlists
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DaVinci Resolve now works up to five times faster on new MacBook Pro
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Best Deals Oct. 22: $419 refurbished iPhone 11, 50% off LG Soundbar, and more!
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Apple to beat Q4 2021 consensus, supply issues 'overblown,' analyst says
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The best Apple Watch Series 7 third-party bands for 2021
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Johny Srouji says Apple's hardware ambitions are limited only by physics
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Satechi's new Hybrid Multiport Adapter combines USB hub with SSD storage
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2022 MacBook Air will have 'M2' chip, MagSafe, 1080p camera, says leaker
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Compared: New AirPods versus AirPods Pro
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New MacBook Pro, Apple Watch Series 7 review & new AirPods on the AppleInsider podcast
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Apple's 'iPhone SE 3' may be based on iPhone XR, and be last LCD model
Opinions on corporate and brand identity work.
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Announced: Brand New will Shift to Subscription Model
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Spotted: New Logo for Blue Islands
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Linked: Louis Vuitton Architecture
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Noted: New Name and Logo for St. Louis City SC
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Reviewed: Friday Likes 339: From Studio MPLS, Wade and Leta, and Unifikat Design Studio
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Spotted: New Logo and Identity for Vitkus Clinic by Tandemo
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Spotted: New Logo and Identity for Netgen by IDnaGroup
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Linked: Biden &Harris &Decimal
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Noted: New Logo and Identity for Correos de México by Carl Forsell
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Reviewed: New Logo and Identity for BERA by How & How
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Spotted: New Logo for Playtika
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Spotted: New Logo and Identity for The 19th by Page 33 Studio
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Linked: Objects may be Closer than they Ap-pear
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Noted: New Logo and Identity for Zappos Adaptive by Eric&Todd
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Reviewed: New Logo and Identity for Lot61 by Smörgåsbord
Biting the hand that feeds IT
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US drops tariff threat against nations who dished out digital taxes to American tech giants as OECD members hash out new deal
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Nobody really cares about DAB radio – so let's force it onto tech platforms' smart speakers, says DCMS Radio Review
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IPSE: More than a third of freelancers have quit contracting since IR35 reforms
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New Relic guzzles down CodeStream to help devs jump straight from app error telemetry to offending code
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Analogue tones of a ZX Spectrum Load set to ride again via podcast project
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Unhappy customers and their own tricks used against them, REvil ransomware gang reportedly pulled offline by 'multi-country' operations
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Apple's Safari browser runs the risk of becoming the new Internet Explorer – holding the web back for everyone
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Judging by the way your face lit up, my inbox just got more attractive
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How to keep a support contract: Make the user think they solved the problem
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Apple kicked an M1-shaped hole in Intel's quarter
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How your phone, laptop, or watch can be tracked by their Bluetooth transmissions
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YouTubers fell for shady 'sponsors' who seized, then sold, accounts
experiments in refactored perception
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Mediocratopia: 12
A key insight recently struck me, and it is one that I should have worked out and written up earlier, but I didn’t think of — one of the biggest reasons mediocrity gets a bad rap is conflation with what I call Somebody Else’s Optimality, or SEO (the rest of this post is just me […] -
Storytelling — Cringe and the Banality of Shadows
Thinking about cringe comedy recently, it struck me that the genre is built around characters who are entirely driven by their shadows, and draws its comedic power from the sheer banality of the unconscious inner lives thus revealed. An example is the character of Mick played by Caitlin Olson on The Mick. Olson played a […] -
MJD 59,487
People who have a literal-minded interest in matters that extend beyond their own lives, and perhaps those of a couple of generations of ancestors and descendants, are an odd breed. For the bulk of humanity, these are zones for mythological imaginings rather than speculative-empirical investigation, if they are of interest at all. For the typical […]
