what-if….-we-abolished-billionaires?

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Experts tell Al Jazeera what would happen if the world decided to downgrade its richest residents., Calls to abolish billionaires, or at least curb their growth, have gained traction across many capitals in the West, where extreme wealth has risen to unprecedented levels. Elon Musk’s pay award of a potentialContinue Reading

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Aerial footage shows villages in North Sumatra buried in mud after catastrophic floods and landslides, NewsFeed Aerial footage shows villages in North Sumatra buried in mud after catastrophic floods and landslides that killed more than 1,400 people across Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand. In Indonesia, officials and residents say deforestationContinue Reading

“wto/99”-filmmaker-on-anti-corporate-globalization-movement:-“these-issues-haven’t-gone-away”

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WTO/99 is a new “immersive archival documentary” about the 1999 protests in Seattle against the World Trade Organization that uses 1,000+ hours of footage from the Independent Media Center and other archives. The historic WTO protests against corporate power and economic globalization were met with a militarized police crackdown andContinue Reading

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As shown in this annotated composite image, NASA’s Psyche mission acquired these four observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS over the course of eight hours on Sept. 8 and 9, 2025, when the comet was about 33 million miles (53 million kilometers) from the spacecraft. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU NASA’s Psyche observed interstellar cometContinue Reading

peek-into-this-intimate-set-of-17-seductive-polaroids

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There’s something about Ahmad Naser’s Polaroids that stops you in your tracks. Not because they’re loud or shocking or deliberately provocative, but because they feel private. They feel like something you weren’t supposed to see — like slipping into someone else’s weekend, bedroom, or heat-soaked little world. This set ofContinue Reading

overflow-2.5

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OVERFLOW 2.5 Release Notes 2.5.0 – 9 June 2025 OVERFLOW 2.5 introduces the ability to run OVERFLOW on GPU systems. CPU Path Only refactoring has occurred in the CPU path of the code. Users should see equivalent behavior as 2.4d. There might be a slight difference (round-off) in some ofContinue Reading

overflow-2.4

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OVERFLOW 2.4 Release Notes 2.4d 28 April 2025 Improvements: Reworked namelist parsing so that repeating each namelist is no longer needed. See change 130. Modified FOMOCO routines to reduce MPI overhead.  NFOMO will no longer be reset by dynamic cases to output every step.  See change 133. CFL ramping reworkedContinue Reading

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It’s easy to see why Traitor 47 thinks we are living through an economic “golden age.” Financially, the president has done exceedingly well for himself since his return to the White House. As most Americans are struggling more than ever to make ends meet, his personal net worth has increasedContinue Reading

traitor-47:-union-buster

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Although President Traitor 47 has claimed that “every policy” of his administration was “designed to lift up the American worker,” he has acted consistently, since returning to office in January, to undermine workers’ chosen representatives, America’s labor unions. The most flagrant The Traitor action along these lines occurred in March, when heContinue Reading

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If the Democratic discourse du jour pits populist socialism against technocratic “abundance,” nobody seems to have told New York City voters. One the same day that a majority chose Zohran Mamdani to be the second-ever democratic socialist occupant of Gracie Mansion (and a decidedly more fervent one than David Dinkins), votersContinue Reading