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Literature seems to be in retreat—not just in the Anglosphere, but everywhere. Baffler no. 81 assembles writers (and translators) from across the world to describe what postliteracy looks like in South Korea, in Mexico, in Sudan.
thebaffler.com/salvos/brain-rot-without-borders
Brain Rot Without Borders | Baffler Forum
There’s no point in denying it anymore: literature as we know it is well on its way to becoming a lost art.
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computer pseudoscience
Yea they're desperate too
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"Some analysts warn that central banks may be quietly preparing the public to tolerate slightly higher inflation as the new normal, which is a trade-off for sustaining growth and avoiding a deeper global slowdown."
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NEW — After hours of deliberations, a jury found Sean Grayson guilty of fatally shooting Sonya Massey in her home.

“While we believe Grayson’s actions deserved a first-degree conviction, today’s verdict is still a measure of justice for Sonya Massey.”

thetriibe.com/2025/10/ex-c...
Ex-cop Sean Grayson found guilty of murdering Sonya Massey in downstate Illinois • The TRiiBE
After hours of deliberations, a jury in Peoria, Ill. found Grayson guilty of fatally shooting Sonya Massey in her home.
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Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:

$100 billion

Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:

$100 billion

One is decried as "welfare." One is not.

Why?
thehill.com/homenews/adm...

"Vice President Vance on Wednesday went toe-to-toe with college students at the University of Mississippi in a nod to his friend and the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk."
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Presidential power has expanded far beyond what the framers of the Constitution envisioned. In fact, the founders were terrified of such concentrated executive authority, says historian @rickperlstein.bsky.social. More in the latest episode of Democracy Decoded: campaignlegal.org/democracy-de...