Something new washes up every time: pages from all kinds of people, made with all kinds of tools. Beachcomb shows you what it found, then gets out of the way.
Pick a few topicsI’m terribly sorry to bring this news to you. This is, genuinely, the hardest decision I have ever made in my life, and I have put off doing it for as long as I could. While we did have many people reach out about the non-profit initiative, for which I am grateful, it became apparent that we…
From Waxy.org links
A past vision of the future. Domestic utopia? Or sanitised hell?
From The Public Domain Review
The memoirs of an aristocratic man revolutionised into an anarchist communist.
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I've just been laid off from Plex, roughly 60 days after starting, having already been made redundant from 3SS earlier this year. Some honest thoughts on AI-driven workflows, hire fast fire fast, and how we're treating the people who build the software.
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Every communications pathway I’m likely to use, for whatever purpose, is filled with beggars. My emails are besieged with political and charitable appeals for funds, both with direct appeals, i.e., just give us money; guilt-trips, i.e., if you don’t give us funding the children will die, or the…
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James Carville Goes To Gettysburg and Finds Donald Trump It’s a reductionist view of our history that tells us very little about the Lost Cause and MAGA. White supremacy never needed to be resurrected after the Civil War. It had always been present and not just in the South. Collapsing MAGA on to…
From Kagi Small Web
A new topological model connects a centuries-old voting paradox to a surface with no distinct inside or outside. The post How Voting Is Like a Klein Bottle first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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From Naked Capitalism: Wall Street is Coming for Your Burger. [Ed: strangely fascinating.] From the Waggington Post: Woman Finds Her Dogs On The ROOF — And Its Just Another Day For Them From Mish Talk: Trump’s Eight Huge Unforced Errors Will Set MAGA Back for Years [Ed: frankly, the Dems are as…
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The New York Times, no paywall: “President Trump’s success in demolishing the traditional wallbetween the White House and the Justice Department is apparent at the helm of the agency, now led by his former personal lawyer, Todd Blanche. Mr. Trump’s reach can also be seen in the network of U.S.…
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Via Newspapers.com One for the “mini mysteries” file: This unresolved poisoning case was reported in the “South Wales Argus,” February 8, 1934. How did cyanide of potassium, used for electro-plating, find its way into a teacup from which a girl of 20 drank tea and died shortly afterwards? This was…
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Two big, long-in-the-making additions to this site today. Whee! The first is the addition of House committees and their transcripts. Committees can be really interesting. Even though this current Parliament certainly doesn't mark their heyday, they're still the most productive part of the House.…
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Adam Nash has a good post on wealth inequality: …Every year, we pull the most recent data from the US Census on household wealth, cut by age. …invariably, the students’ initial response is a reaction to the apparent disparity in wealth between households based on age. For many students, it just…
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What are my key issues to look for in today’s budget? In no particular order and with some issues undoubtedly overlooked, start with these, none Read the full article...
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Ten years ago, I wrote about a problem that was already undermining the #openweb, that nobody was linking to anybody. The incentives were all moving in the wrong direction. #Mainstreaming platforms had little reason to send people towards alternative sources, while grassroots projects were left…
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Unpredictable appointments can cost you a day’s wages even when you hardly wait.
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What have you stopped buying because life got too expensive? I didn’t read a list. I read a mirror. A woman in Chicago said she used to send about 80 Christmas cards a year. She got about the same back. Now she sends a picture by text. The card and the stamp just cost too...
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October 29, 1921 - Centre College of Kentucky defeated Harvard University in what the New York Times called “arguably the upset of the century in college football.” On that fateful date in 1921, Harvard hadn’t lost a ga...
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As one of the managers of the Digital Dissident Devroom, I invite you to be part of a conversation we cannot afford to ignore. Around the world, people are being silenced, monitored, and denied access to information. Free software can help change that, but only if we build it together. We need tools…
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An estimated 89 million registered voters did not vote in the 2024 general election. I know many of them. They are family members, friends, neighbors, and people I meet in passing at high school football games, in checkout lines, and at the gym. I meet hundreds more of them every day on social…
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This came out from Channel 4 this afternoon: The interview happened on Thursday afternoon, and publication was delayed as a result of technical problems with Read the full article...
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morbimoth: hot evil stupid politician in that fucking city that i hate. also surely people dont need a tw for this
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Fast-forwarding through a vintage Siskel & Ebert clip yesterdat, I noticed a commercial for General Foods International Coffees. Remember those? Before the corner Starbucks sold cappuccinos that taste like shoe boxes and before even McDonald’s offered nominal competition, the average Safeway sold…
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Sometimes people say political parties in the U.S. are both corrupt, that it doesn't matter who is in power, that industry holds sway over our politics and our health regardless. Nothing could be more mistaken. Just now, The New York Times exposed how many Americans -- at least 3.3 million people…
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David Miller :: "Exit Memory" :: / inlovewithitart / Instagram * From our days in a religious cult: The real error was not understanding that everything has it's life span. The trick is to know when to leave. In that world [the world we had agreed to join] leaving meant expulsion with no return.…
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Since most of our readers live on the western side of the Atlantic, they might not know what a WAG is. A WAG, a term created by that oh-so-illustrious British media, refers to Wives And Girlfriends of famous athletes. (Since we're talking about England, they are mostly attached to soccer players.)
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This post is going to be really simple. The point of it is summed up in the title above. You should go vote, and it doesn’t make me a Christian Nationalist for saying so. I am a committed Baptist, which means that a major part of my confessional identity is religious liberty—the notion that “church…
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One does not have to like Obama to appreciate how well he needles Trump.
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Brazil, which is oil-rich and holds the world's second-largest reserves of rare earth minerals, is the only big country in South America not governed by a right-wing leader, with Lula largely seen as…
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On October 21, 2026, on his personal FB page, former superintendent, Frank Jabbia, endorsed a slate of St. Tammany Parish School Board (LA) candidates, one of whom is District 12 candidate, Heath Panks, who happens to be the candidate for District 12, where Jabbia resides and where he and Panks…
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Less a movie and more an encapsulation of toxic masculinity via 70s grindhouse. I know it’s important historically but god damn you know?
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That's this stretch.
Walk on