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December 28, 2024 at 1:05 AM

An AI System Has Reached Human Level on a Test for ‘General Intelligence’

An AI System Has Reached Human Level on a Test for ‘General Intelligence’     Michael Timothy Bennett and Elija Perrier December 24, 2024 The Conversation While scepticism remains, many AI researchers and developers feel something just changed. For many, the…

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December 28, 2024 at 1:05 AM

mRNA Technology: Four Decades in the Making

mRNA Technology: Four Decades in the Making     Jess Steier December 23, 2024 Unbiased Science mRNA technology took 40 years to perfect. Here's the story, briefly. So if you’re sitting around the holiday table and someone tells you the mRNA technology is “to…

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December 28, 2024 at 1:00 AM

How a US President and JP Morgan Made Panama and Turned It Into a Tax Haven

How a US President and JP Morgan Made Panama and Turned It Into a Tax Haven     Ed Vulliamy April 9, 2016 Guardian In 1903 the US bullied Colombia into giving up the province that became Panama. The plan was to create a nation to serve the interests of Wall …

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December 28, 2024 at 1:00 AM

peeling potatoes

Portside Culture peeling potatoes     Nels Goñi Christianson California poet Nels Goñi Christianson honors the women who made him the man he is, their often undervalued care and strength. ,   my mother who was born in Susanville, Ca…

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December 27, 2024 at 2:15 AM

Of Misogyny, Musk, and Men

Of Misogyny, Musk, and Men     Clara Jeffery November 15, 2024 Mother Jones Women are not okay. We’re furious...Trump’s margin of victory was powered by men, who voted for him by 55 percent—a few points more than went for him in 2020. Trump made gains with a…

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December 27, 2024 at 1:45 AM

How Trump and the GOP Plan To Dismantle the U.S. Pro-Palestinian Movement

How Trump and the GOP Plan To Dismantle the U.S. Pro-Palestinian Movement     Ben Samuels December 23, 2024 Haaretz Aggressively anti-Palestinian appointees, who tend to describe all campus protesters as Hamas supporters, will soon steer both foreign and dom…

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December 27, 2024 at 1:15 AM

A Global Minimum Wage Would Reduce Poverty and Corporate Power

A Global Minimum Wage Would Reduce Poverty and Corporate Power     Lawrence S. Wittner December 24, 2024 Foreign Policy in Focus The rich are growing astronomically richer while poverty reduction has ground to a standstill. In today’s world of widespread pov…

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December 27, 2024 at 1:05 AM

We’re Already Seeing Signs That Trump Is Tanking the Economy

We’re Already Seeing Signs That Trump Is Tanking the Economy     Timothy Noah December 23, 2024 The New Republic Your stock portfolio may grow. But say goodbye to next year’s raise—and maybe even your job. Donald Trump’s election provides a useful occasion t…

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December 27, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Tidbits – Dec.26 – Reader Comments: Trump’s Pick for Attorney General: Rapist Gaetz; Democrats’ Path Back To Power; Economic Populism Did Not Lose This Election; Second Ku Klux Klan; Stop Blaming People for Wanting To Afford the Basics of Living;

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December 26, 2024 at 8:00 AM

Bethlehem Rev. Isaac Protests Continuing Gaza Genocide

Bethlehem Rev. Isaac Protests Continuing Gaza Genocide     Interview by Amy Goodman December 23, 2024 Democracy Now Reverend's Christmas sermon titled "Christ is Still in the Rubble" given while Christmas celebrations were canceled in the West Bank and the c…

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December 26, 2024 at 7:40 AM

‘I Probably Could Have Flipped Over a Few More Tables’

‘I Probably Could Have Flipped Over a Few More Tables’     Nicholas Wu December 25, 2024 Politico Outgoing Rep. Cori Bush gets candid about her time in Congress and how progressives should respond to 2024. Rep. Cori Bush, Francis Chung/POLITICO …

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December 26, 2024 at 7:25 AM

Think Biden’s Unpopular? Check Out His Fellow Leaders.

Think Biden’s Unpopular? Check Out His Fellow Leaders.     Harold Meyerson December 23, 2024 The American Prospect If floundering leaders and ineffectual democracies are the new norm, we’re in a very dangerous time. From left, U.K. Prime Minister K…

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December 26, 2024 at 7:10 AM

The Walmart Effect

The Walmart Effect     Rogé Karma December 24, 2024 The Atlantic New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices. , Marie Eriel Hobro for The New York Times  …

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December 26, 2024 at 1:00 AM

A Soundtrack of Irrationalism

Portside Culture A Soundtrack of Irrationalism     Blaire Briody December 12, 2024 Los Angeles Review of Books Reviewer Briody calls this book "a tightly written and well-reported account of the rise of extremism in small-town America." , …

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December 26, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – Women Confront Society

Global Left Midweek – Women Confront Society     December 25, 2024 xxxxxx It’s worldwide Credit, Vidushi Yadav and Medhavini Yadav   Global Economy: Listen to Women Video: Kenyans Against Femicide Report on Pelicot Verdicts and Aftermath W…

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December 25, 2024 at 2:50 AM

Trump Wants To Bring Back the American Imperium

Trump Wants To Bring Back the American Imperium     Timothy Noah December 23, 2024 The New Republic Don’t worry, the president-elect's plans to seize Greenland and the Panama Canal aren't serious. But they sure are weird. Graffiti is drawn on the s…

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December 25, 2024 at 2:45 AM

Octopuses and Their Relatives Are a New Animal Welfare Frontier

Octopuses and Their Relatives Are a New Animal Welfare Frontier     Rachel Blaser December 20, 2024 The Conversation Here’s what scientists know about consciousness in these unique creatures Octopus cyanea or Day Octopus near Kona, Big Island, Hawa…

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December 25, 2024 at 2:45 AM

No, Economic Populism Did Not Lose This Election

No, Economic Populism Did Not Lose This Election     Isaac Rabbani, Domenico Siravo December 24, 2024 Jacobin Over the course of her campaign, with all the wrong people in her ear, Kamala Harris rejected the type of economic populism that could have salvaged…

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December 25, 2024 at 2:45 AM

Reimagining Socialism: An Interview With David Kotz

Reimagining Socialism: An Interview With David Kotz     C.J. Polychroniou December 24, 2024 Common Dreams "The biggest problem with regulated capitalism is that it is simply not sustainable in the long run," said the economist. Economist and profes…

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December 25, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – December 24, 2024

Media Bits and Bytes – December 24, 2024     December 24, 2024 xxxxxx How strong is the First Amendment? Credit, Rob Rogers   Trump 2.0 Lowers the Boom Goliath vs Goliath Crypto Crisis Coming? Carding Pornhub Users Rightist Podcasting: Fro…

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December 24, 2024 at 11:15 PM

"A Complete Unknown" Review – Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan Is an Electric Revelation

Portside Culture "A Complete Unknown" Review – Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan Is an Electric Revelation     Peter Bradshaw December 10, 2024 The Guardian James Mangold’s biopic "A Complete Unknown" follows the rise of the era-defining star Bob Dylan w…

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December 24, 2024 at 2:10 AM

This Week in People’s History, Dec 25–31

This Week in People’s History, Dec 25–31     xxxxxx No Free Speech on Christmas (1919), Killing Babies Is the Ugliest War Crime (1969), Can the Media Help Defend Democracy Again? (1974), Young Lords Speak Truth to Power (1969), A Highway to Nowhere (1949), R…

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December 24, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Trump’s Pick To Lead Federal Housing Agency Has Opposed Efforts To Aid the Poor

Trump’s Pick To Lead Federal Housing Agency Has Opposed Efforts To Aid the Poor     Jesse Coburn and Andy Kroll December 23, 2024 ProPublica As HUD secretary, Scott Turner would oversee billions in housing aid, but as a Texas state legislator he voted agains…

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December 24, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Sherrod Brown Should Absolutely Run Again To Represent the Working Class in the Senate

Sherrod Brown Should Absolutely Run Again To Represent the Working Class in the Senate     John Nichols December 19, 2024 The Nation The outgoing senator recognizes—to a greater extent than any other Democrat—the need to renew the party’s commitment to a pol…

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December 24, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Ten Years After Normalization With Cuba, Trump Hardliners Take Cuba Back in Time

Ten Years After Normalization With Cuba, Trump Hardliners Take Cuba Back in Time     Ed Augustin December 20, 2024 Drop Site A decade after Obama’s normalization, Trump’s team looks to ratchet up pressure on the island. ,   HAVANA — After t…

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December 24, 2024 at 1:00 AM

How Union Democracy Builds Labor’s Strike Power

How Union Democracy Builds Labor’s Strike Power     Alex Press December 19, 2024 Dissent The UAW’s reform movement brought membership back into the fold, harnessing their energy and forging it into a weapon that could force the companies to bend. U…

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December 24, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Sorry, but This Is the Future of Food

Portside Culture Sorry, but This Is the Future of Food     Michael Grunwald December 13, 2024 New York Times Environmentalists and even agribusinesses and food conglomerates talk about supplanting industrial methods with kinder and gentler “regenerat…

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December 23, 2024 at 7:10 AM

Sunday Science: Infamous Paper That Popularized Unproven COVID-19 Treatment Finally Retracted

Sunday Science: Infamous Paper That Popularized Unproven COVID-19 Treatment Finally Retracted     Cathleen O’Grady December 17, 2024 Science Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds S…

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December 23, 2024 at 7:00 AM

Capitalism Is Draining the Life From Our Culture Industries

Portside Culture Capitalism Is Draining the Life From Our Culture Industries     Dean Van Nguyen December 22, 2024 Jacobin Culture industries are dominated by a few big corporations that prefer to keep flogging old stories instead of taking a risk on…

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December 23, 2024 at 5:20 AM

One of the Supreme Court’s Most Infamous Cases Is As Relevant as Ever

One of the Supreme Court’s Most Infamous Cases Is As Relevant as Ever     Jonathan van Harmelen December 18, 2024 The Nation Eighty years ago, Korematsu v. United States upheld the incarceration of Japanese Americans. The racism and hysteria that fueled that…

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December 23, 2024 at 4:45 AM

Meet the Far-Right Settler Benjamin Netanyahu Has Tapped To Be the Next Israeli Ambassador to the U.S.

Meet the Far-Right Settler Benjamin Netanyahu Has Tapped To Be the Next Israeli Ambassador to the U.S.     Jonathan Ofir Mondoweiss Yechiel Leiter, a hardcore settler leader once involved in Meir Kahane's fascist Jewish Defense League, will be Israel's next a…

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December 23, 2024 at 4:25 AM

How Musk Out-Maneuvered Trump

How Musk Out-Maneuvered Trump     Robert Kuttner December 21, 2024 The American Prospect Musk got the only thing that he wanted. Does Trump realize it? Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and JD Vance at last week's Army-Navy football game., AP Photo/Stephani…

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December 23, 2024 at 4:15 AM

Making Sense of the Second Ku Klux Klan

Making Sense of the Second Ku Klux Klan     Chad Pearson December 22, 2024 Jacobin Understanding the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the early twentieth century gives insight into the roots of today’s reactionary activists and policymakers. Ku K…

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December 22, 2024 at 1:10 AM

A xxxxxx Message: Say ‘No’ to a Wannabe Dictator

A xxxxxx Message: Say ‘No’ to a Wannabe Dictator     xxxxxx Moderators December 21, 2024 xxxxxx Donald Trump is signaling that he will attempt a coup before even taking office. It's going to take all of our strategizing and mobilizing to defeat it ... again.…

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December 22, 2024 at 1:05 AM

Holding West Bank Settlers Accountable for Violence

Holding West Bank Settlers Accountable for Violence     Michael Arria December 20, 2024 Mondoweiss Congressional Democrats led by Rep. Summer Lee and Sen. Peter Welch have introduced legislation to sanction Israeli settlers that commit acts of violence in th…

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December 22, 2024 at 1:05 AM

What Can Education Be Without High Stakes Testing?

What Can Education Be Without High Stakes Testing?     Doug Selwyn December 13, 2024 Greenfield Recorder In November 2024 Massachusetts voters ended the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System as the graduation requirement for students. , The…

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December 22, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Creating Traditions of Care for the Holidays

Creating Traditions of Care for the Holidays     Kelly Hayes December 17, 2024 Organizing My Thoughts A commitment to the well-being of whole generations, from children to grandparents demand that we stop this forcible separation of families, and as we work …

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December 22, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Forty Years After the Bhopal Disaster, the Danger Still Remains

Forty Years After the Bhopal Disaster, the Danger Still Remains     Gary Cohen December 18, 2024 The Progressive On the 40th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster -- with a death toll of over 20,000 -- Senator Jeff Merkley, Representatives Pramila Jayapal and …

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December 22, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Francis Perkins Memorial

Francis Perkins Memorial     Heather Cox Richardson December 17, 2024 Letters from an American Frances Perkins’s work to build FDR’s New Deal sparked the modern American state. She recognized that the central purpose of government was not to protect property…

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December 21, 2024 at 4:00 AM

Friday Nite Videos | December 20, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | December 20, 2024     December 20, 2024 xxxxxx "It's A Worm-derful Life" - Animated Holiday Classic. BBC in Civil War Over Gaza. Bob Dylan | A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall. Why Your Favorite Movies Fake Their Locations. 'Syria: Only Now Can …

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December 21, 2024 at 3:20 AM

The Democrats’ Path Back To Power

The Democrats’ Path Back To Power     Pramila Jayapal December 19, 2024 Newsweek Democrats do have a clear path forward: to be united and passionate about fighting for bold, direct economic policies that unrig the system and deliver change so families across…

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December 21, 2024 at 3:05 AM

Fifty Years of Silence: Mexico Faces the Legacy of Its Dirty War

Fifty Years of Silence: Mexico Faces the Legacy of Its Dirty War     Kate Doyle and Claire Dorfman December 20, 2024 National Security Archive Mexico's first National Truth Commission has released monumental reports on state violence during the 'dirty wars' …

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December 21, 2024 at 2:50 AM

Either Be a Determined Opposition or Be a Loser

Either Be a Determined Opposition or Be a Loser     Jamelle Bouie December 18, 2024 New York Times The Democratic Party lacks the energy of a determined opposition — it is adrift, listless in the wake of defeat, ready to concede that Trump is some kind of a…

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December 21, 2024 at 2:20 AM

For Enslaved People, Holiday Season Was a Time for Revelry – and Possibly Flight

For Enslaved People, Holiday Season Was a Time for Revelry – and Possibly Flight     Ana Lucia Araujo December 18, 2024 The Conversation Slave owners tried to keep enslaved people under control with better meals and more downtime during the holiday season. M…

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December 21, 2024 at 1:00 AM

The Peasantry

Portside Culture The Peasantry     Weijia Pan Motherlands Poet Weijia Pan offers a glimpse of the contradictions in a “classless” society. ,   The people, and the people alone, are the motive force of world history.
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December 20, 2024 at 3:25 AM

Pelosi Won. The Democratic Party Lost.

Pelosi Won. The Democratic Party Lost.     Kate Aronoff December 17, 2024 The New Republic In sabotaging Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s bid for leadership of the Oversight Committee, party elders have doubled down on a failed strategy. The elderly are not too ol…

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December 20, 2024 at 3:05 AM

Once Upon a Time, a Nation of Laws – From the Global War on Terror to Donald Trump’s Second Term

Once Upon a Time, a Nation of Laws – From the Global War on Terror to Donald Trump’s Second Term     Karen J. Greenberg December 19, 2024 TomDispatch In fact, much (though admittedly, not all) of what we’re witnessing today might simply be considered an esca…

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December 20, 2024 at 2:45 AM

Donald Trump and His Allies Don’t Really Care What Kind of Leftist You Are

Donald Trump and His Allies Don’t Really Care What Kind of Leftist You Are     Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò December 11, 2024 Teen Vogue Being “the right kind” of progressive or feminist or socialist can easily become its own goal, rather than winning concrete victorie…

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December 20, 2024 at 2:25 AM

Viet Thanh Nguyen Broke a BDS Rule. Now He Is Its Vocal Advocate.

Viet Thanh Nguyen Broke a BDS Rule. Now He Is Its Vocal Advocate.     Edo Konrad and Alaa Salama December 17, 2024 +972 Magazine The Vietnamese-American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen reflects on his ‘mea culpa’ with Israeli publishers, the diminishing power of Is…

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December 20, 2024 at 1:10 AM

Tidbits – Dec.19 – Reader Comments: Pardon Leonard Peltier; Fighting Deportations; Members of Congress Descendants of Rich Slaveholders; Readers Debate: Liberation in Syria; Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing– Virtual Training; More…

Tidbits – Dec.19 – Reader Comments: Pardon Leonard Peltier; Fighting Deportations; Members of Congress Descendants of Rich Slaveholders; Readers Debate: Liberation in Syria; Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing– Virtual Training; More…     December 19, 2024 xxxxx…

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