Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for NVIDIA Users
Ubuntu first switched to using Wayland as its default display server in 2017 before reverting the following year. It tried again in 2021 and has stuck with it since. But while Wayland is what most of is now login to after installing Ubuntu, anyone doing so on a PC orContinue Reading
Is Putin’s visit to China a defining step toward shaping a new world order?
Western powers are concerned by the growing economic and strategic alliance between Russia and China., Inside Story Western powers are concerned by the growing economic and strategic alliance between Russia and China. Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have met more than 40 times in the last 10 years –Continue Reading
Israel pounds Gaza as UN urges opening of land crossings for aid deliveries
Israeli army launches attacks across Gaza, including in Jabalia camp in the north, as humanitarian crisis deepens., Israeli forces have continued to bombard the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, where Israel’s military offensive is deepening a humanitarian crisis in the already ravaged part of the Palestinian enclave. Hamas saidContinue Reading
David DePape sentenced to 30 years in attempted Nancy Pelosi kidnapping, hammer attack on husband
The sentencing caps a federal trial that raised chilling questions about the safety of public officials amid heightened political extremism and the proliferation of online platforms that give traction to baseless fanatical conspiracy theories., Read MoreContinue Reading
This North Carolina Bill Could Ban People From Wearing Of Masks In Public
Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are pushing forward with their plan to repeal a pandemic-era law that allowed the wearing of masks in public for health reasons., Read MoreContinue Reading
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Claps Back At Sen. Fetterman After ‘Jerry Springer’ Diss
The congresswoman took the senator to task for a comment about her run-in with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene this week., Read MoreContinue Reading
How the ‘Reckoning’ Became an Embarrassment
The following story is co-published with Freddie deBoer’s Substack. Last year I published my second book, How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement . The book functions as a set of criticisms from the left towards the “reckoning” of 2020, the sudden spasm of righteously-motivated but deeply misguided social unrest thatContinue Reading
It’s Not the Protesters, Stupid
From cable TV’s “Morning Joe” to social media video clipper Aaron Rupar, the president’s most partisan supporters have taken a cue from the man in the White House and presented a united front against left-leaning youth calling for an end to the war on Gaza. A demographic that four yearsContinue Reading
The Intellectual Influence of the Haitian Revolution
Envision your cities shrouded in mourning… envision the care you took upon yourself, night and day, to revive your companions, envision your children, your soldiers, the peaceful inhabitants of the countryside crippled by the French,” wrote Louis- Felix Boisrond-Tonnerre, an early 19th-century Haitian thinker and former secretary to Jean-Jacques Dessalines,Continue Reading
There is a nature gap, but we can fix that
Investing in outdoor-equity projects and improved public transportation can help address the current disparities in access to nature., Read MoreContinue Reading
English fishing village told to boil water after a parasite outbreak sickens over 45 people
A scenic fishing village in southwestern England is on its third day under instructions to boil its tap water after a parasite sickened more than 45 people, Read MoreContinue Reading
US, international volunteer doctors trapped in Gaza hospital by Israeli assault
Teams of 35 international doctors, including 22 Americans, are trapped in Gaza after Israel’s seizure of the main crossing into Egypt sealed off their way out, Read MoreContinue Reading
What was that guy’s name again? Attacks on a progressive DA by a philistine
An old-school tough-on-crime campaign has been launched in the Travis County Democratic primary by Some Guy I’ve Never Heard Of named Jeremy Silverbelly, or Silverspoon, or something. To be honest. I never can remember his name. He’s just the guy a bunch of Republican donors picked to try to oustContinue Reading