Omaha swung 43 points to elect Democrat John Ewing Jr. over a transphobic GOP incumbent by focusing on real issues, not hate. Dems, take note.
John Ewing Jr.’s significant victory in Omaha highlights the effectiveness of focusing on quality-of-life issues over divisive rhetoric in political campaigns.
Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail is still inspiring and worth reading today. “We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was ‘legal’….”
UCSD study finds stock trades by Congress ruin public faith (Amita Sharma / KPBS) — It’s bipartisan corruption. “If congressional members really care about restoring trust in the institution, this (stock trade ban) is a really easy way to do it,” UCSD doctoral student Raihan Alam said.
We have been trained to think we have enormous power over the world. Whatever you dream, you can do. Anything can be bent to your will. But actually isn’t it much more interesting to imagine that you’re quite small?
— Ian Bogost
There is no such thing as an ethical multilevel marketing business, Cory Doctorow argues in a book review of “Little Bosses Everywhere,” by Bridget Read. They are all cults and Ponzi schemes — Amway, Mary Kay, all of them. Trump, of course, has attached his name to two separate pyramid scams.
‘It’s out of control’: the fight against US ‘tip-creep’ (Jem Bartholomew / The Guardian)
Anthropic’s new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline (Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch)
“AI-first” is the new Return To Office (Anil Dash)
Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn’t warning the public like it was months ago (Chiara Eisner / KPBS)