We are living in a time of bad metaphors. Everything is fascism, or socialism; Hitler’s Germany, or Stalin’s Soviet Union. Republicans, especially, want their followers to believe that America is on the verge of a dramatic time, a moment of great conflict such as 1968—or perhaps, even worse, 1860. (The drama is the point, of course. No one ever says, “We’re living through 1955.”) Ironically, the GOP is indeed replicating another political party in another time, but not as the heroes they imagine themselves to be. The Republican Party has become, in form if not in content, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union of the late 1970s. I can already hear the howls about invidious comparisons. I do not mean that modern American Republicans are communists. Rather, I mean that the Republicans have entered their own kind of end-stage Bolshevism, as members of a party that is now exhausted by its failures, cynical about its own ideology, authoritarian by reflex, controlled as a personality cult by a failing old man, and looking for new adventures to rejuvenate its fortunes. No one thinks much about the Soviet Union in the late 1970s, and no one really should. This was a time referred to by the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, as the vremya zastoi—“the era of stagnation.” By that point, the Soviet Communist Party was a spent force, and ideological conviction was mostly for chumps and fanatics. A handful of party ideologues and the senior officers of the Soviet military might still have believed in “Marxism-Leninism”—the melding of aspirational communism to one-party dictatorship—but by and large, Soviet citizens knew that the party’s formulations about the rights of all people were just window dressing for rule by a small circle of old men in the Kremlin.

Is the Western way of raising kids weird? - BBC Future

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From sleeping in separate beds to their children to transporting them in prams, Western parents have some unusual ideas about how to raise them

Climbing the Bell Curve to the Cathedral - Model Citizen

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"But How Do I Actually Start?" Making Games on Your Own as an Engineer | Eyas's Blog

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Proton’s Antimatter Revealed by Decades-Old Experiment | Quanta Magazine

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Covid-19 Deaths and Cases Rapidly Decline in Nursing Homes - The New York Times

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Can Auditing Eliminate Bias from Algorithms? – The Markup

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A DRY Approach to Color Themes in CSS | CSS-Tricks

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via CSS-Tricks https://bit.ly/39gvElW

DNS lookups!

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yesterday I was thinking about how I wanted it to be easier for someone to look at their site's DNS so I made this little tool to do DNS lookups for example you can look up DNS records for here:

Home Page - FPGA Tutorial

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Expert written tutorials covering the three main programming languages used in the design and verification of FPGA - VHDL, Verilog and Sytem Verilog

Amulet version 1

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Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast | Caspar von Wrede

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There was a time when Google was a small, quirky company with a single product so awesome that it blew away the competition. That time is long gone. These days Google is a gigantic multinational mega-corp. But that’s understating it a little.

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New: Bernie Sanders told @axios he’s consulted with the White House about how to move forward with Biden's infrastructure package, and said he's ready to do it immediately via budget reconciliation — a process he controls as chair of the Budget Committee

Woman Accused of Stealing Nancy Pelosi’s Laptop Appears in Video Making Nazi Salute - bellingcat

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Woman Accused of Stealing Nancy Pelosi’s Laptop Appears in Video Making Nazi Salute - bellingcat by via Comments on: Woman Accused of Stealing Nancy Pelosi’s Laptop Appears in Video Making Nazi Salute https://ift.tt/3aTddGJ

Stardew Store – Stardew Valley Shop

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I'm happy to announce today's launch of Stardew Valley: The Board Game. It's been in the works for over 2 years. Read more about it here: or visit the shop to purchase:

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TikTok, Clubhouse, Substack, Dispo: the consumer internet’s long drought appears to be over, and now Facebook and other networks are scrambling to respond. I wrote about how social networks got competitive again.