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“As a firm we know the history of the building type so well, which is why we are delighted to design super tall for a place with zero underlying market demand for it to exist in the first place,” added Gill.

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How Email Open Tracking Quietly Took Over the Web You give up more privacy than you might think each time you open an email.

In honor of Tim Cook's stepping down, here is the story of how I emailed him, not once but twice, with open email tracking enabled, only to discover that, not once but twice, my emails to the CEO of Apple were opened on a computer running Windows.

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A proper game of football, this one, berween a team that should have wrapped up the title already and another which should have been demoted to League One a long time ago.

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"A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess."
A. Philip Randolph, born on this day in 1889

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At lunch today, an otherwise apparently sane man at the table next to mine told his companion that he was using AI for "Christ-centered life instruction."

Said apparently sane man was in commercial real estate, which doesn't skew lefty in CMH.

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Péter Magyar on Polish politicians Zbigniew Ziobro and Marcin Romanowski, facing misuse of public funds & abuse of power charges, who Orbán granted asylum to:

"They shouldn't buy any furniture in Hungary because they are not staying long. Hungary will not be an asylum for international criminals."

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The last time my team put out a big, data-intensive project, we included this in the acknowledgments, and it's something I want to continue to do going forward. Time to sing these heroes.

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Florida has produced so many great artists, but sadly so few resort developers.

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Orders from above were issued to keep bona fide theologians away from the conferences, and Italian media reported that in the Roman palazzo where Thiel lectured, the flâneurs with waxed moustaches vastly outnumbered the Bible scholars. The evangelical tech mogul was informally excommunicated by a church he doesn’t even belong to.

Orders from above were issued to keep bona fide theologians away from the conferences, and Italian media reported that in the Roman palazzo where Thiel lectured, the flâneurs with waxed moustaches vastly outnumbered the Bible scholars. The evangelical tech mogul was informally excommunicated by a church he doesn’t even belong to.

Witty writing in a piece about the pope vs Trump and allies as.ft.com/r/2044e472-6...

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What DJT wants is a MAGA version of Roland Freisler, who was deliciously crushed to death when the tribunal where he'd sent thousands to their deaths collapsed on him, as beautiful an act of divine retribution as history has kept track of.

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once again kind of remarkable WIRED's business model has successfully become "reviewing every shitty windows laptop on earth so we can afford to publish BORTAC agents' names"

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Good on WIRED for this report about appalling CBP conduct

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Update: Markets "recoil" after suggestions earlier claims about the existence of Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy were false.

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Oh so now copyright matters.

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Oil price falls and markets rally after Trump says Iran war over in ‘two to three weeks’ US president’s claim that conflict is nearing end prompts 15% drop in Brent crude and stock market climb in Asia

Markets rally after suggestions that the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus do, in fact, exist.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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TRUMP DEMANDS NATO WARSHIPS UNBLOCK BALLROOM

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Ahem at this point we have about one European leader that is actively trying to stop the disaster that's around the corner.

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"Bacewicz, be a dear and set the table. Bax, go tell your brother Chausson that dinner is almost ready."

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Can You Hang a Pride Flag in Your Office Window? This University Says No. Boston University has drawn a line between personal and institutional speech. Some professors see censorship.

BU President Gilliam: “If you have the privilege of having a window that faces campus, you don’t get the privilege of speaking for the university.”

At BU you can have either a window or freedom of speech, but not both. Gilliam was provost at OSU a few years ago.

www.chronicle.com/article/can-...

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A stone painted with the garish hair of the current president and the words “remove the regime.”

A stone painted with the garish hair of the current president and the words “remove the regime.”

Update from a street light bollard in Columbus:

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This is a very expensive way to identify which senior administrators should be relieved of their duties.

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appalling mismanagement of public resources

"chop from the top" means no gazillionaire salaries for upper admin, who should be educators, and it means no $15M fees to grifter consultants and oafing marketers

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Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy.

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UNESCO fears for fate of historical sites during Iran war UNESCO said it is deeply concerned about the fate of world heritage sites in Iran and across the region, after Tehran's Golestan palace, often compared to ​Versailles, and a historic mosque and palace...

Brought to you by the same military that sent troops to protect the Iraqi Oil Ministry building, but no one to protect the National Museum of Iraq. 15,000 historical & art objects were looted in one of the greatest acts of cultural vandalism in modern world history.

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

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"We're gonna bring oil to market through other avenues"

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Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "We're less than two weeks into this 47 year long conflict"

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We don’t have to worry about Iranian sleeper cells when we have this guy on the job.

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Ossoff: "The president appears increasingly to have lost touch with reality. That is deeply concerning when you have a a cabinet much more concerned with winning his favor than giving good advice & the nation now plunged into war. It speaks to the necessity of winning these midterms in a landslide."

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Print it out, fold it, and send it in a letter.

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