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Celebrating Boundless Vanguard Impact

Eveonline.com 

Denizens of New Eden, 

The YC126.11.28 Groundbreak event has concluded, and the impact of the Vanguard on the war was undeniable. Planetside operations turned the tide in key moments, with the system of Raihbaka being overturned due to Vanguard activity, and much more.  

To watch the wrap video from the event, and get information on the future of EVE Vanguard, visit the Vanguard website. 

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Trump’s Rage at Liz Cheney Takes a Dark Turn—and Wrecks a Big GOP Lie

The New Republic 

Barely moments after Donald Trump announced that he’d chosen loyalist Kash Patel as FBI director, Republicans stampeded forth to insist that this in no way means Trump will unleash law enforcement on his enemies, even though Trump himself has threatened to do so. Senator John Cornyn suggested such threats were only for “public consumption.” Senator Rick Scott said Trump is “not gonna do it.” And Representative Dan Meuser scoffed that the very idea is “nonsense.”

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Pedro Almodóvar’s Self-Indulgent Portrait of a Woman’s Last Days

The New Republic 

If Tilda Swinton hadn’t been born in time to play the androgynous protagonist of Sally Potter’s Orlando (1992), the director would have had to invent her. Ever since the beginning of her career as a cover girl for the British avant-garde, Swinton has seemed strangely ageless: a protean figure projecting a beguiling mix of Sphinx-like wisdom and fairy-tale whimsy; an alabaster statue granted benevolent sentience. In Orlando, Potter’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel, Swinton is a shape-shifter... Читать дальше...

The best advice we got in 2024

Vox 

If you’re reading this, you probably know there’s no shortage of advice — good, bad, middling — in our digital landscape. Influencers are always peddling one weird trick to help you “hack” your health; many people on the internet won’t bat an eye before telling you to “divorce him,” and Reddit has become the de facto […]

Critics at Large Live: The Year of the Flop

The New Yorker 

Across culture and politics, 2024 was a year of great expectations followed by disastrous misses. What space might these upsets open up in their wake?

Three pieces of good news on climate change in 2024

Technology Review  

This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. The vibes in the climate world this year have largely been … less than great. Global greenhouse-gas emissions hit a new high, reaching 37.4 billion metric tons in 2024. This year is…

Griffith sees steady increase in needy families

Nation News.com 

There may be more families in need than people realise, says founder and chairman of Neighbour Neighbour charity Errol Griffith. That’s why he is encouraging more Barbadians to give what they can throughout the year and not just during the holidays. “The demand for our assistance increased during COVID and it never dropped. It increased […]

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The Nation’s Reading Instruction Disaster

Ludwig von Mises Institute 

Much of the failure of American schools is due to the adherence to a flawed system of teaching students how to read. Homeschoolers often don‘t seem to have that problem, and there is a good reason why.

How the Trust Protocol is Measuring Cotton’s Impact

SourcingJournal.com 

Among the most valuable commodities today in the fashion and textiles business is sustainability data. For one, data is necessary to guard against greenwashing allegations, backing up claims and allowing companies to speak more credibly about the provenance of their materials. Metrics are also critical in meeting a growing spate of regulatory requirements that make […]