AvatarPete Conryflipped into The Slurred Word1 day ago9 of the Best Villains in Literaturebookriot.com - Alice NuttallA good story needs a good villain. Heroes, noble as they are, are usually reactive, responding to a threat (or Answering the Call) rather than …
AvatarPete Conryflipped into Calamitous Rex1 day agoThese Companies Pay Their Executives More Than They Pay in Taxestruthout.org - Sarah AndersonIn his State of the Union address, President Biden called out “massive executive pay” and vowed to “make big corporations and the very wealthy …
AvatarPete Conryflipped into The Slurred Word1 day agoDynamic pricing is coming to grocery storesverified_publisherNPR - Amanda AronczykWhen we think dynamic pricing, we usually think of airlines, Uber or Amazon quickly changing their prices. But now, dynamic pricing is coming to a supermarket near you. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: More and more, the things we buy are being priced by algorithms. From an airline ticket to an Uber ride, prices …
AvatarPete Conryflipped into Calamitous Rex2 days agoTrump Says Some Migrants Are ‘Not People’ and Predicts a ‘Blood Bath’ if He Losesverified_publisherThe New York Times - Anjali HuynhIn a caustic and discursive speech in Ohio, former President Donald J. Trump once again doubled down on a doomsday vision of the United States. Former President Donald J. Trump, at an event on Saturday ostensibly meant to boost his preferred candidate in Ohio’s Republican Senate primary race, gave a …
AvatarPete Conryflipped into Calamitous Rex2 days agoHow Trump’s Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformationverified_publisherThe New York Times - Jim RutenbergIn the wake of the riot on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021, a groundswell built in Washington to rein in the onslaught of lies that had fueled the assault on the peaceful transfer of power. Social media companies suspended Donald J. Trump, then the president, and many of his allies from the platforms …
AvatarPete Conryflipped into The Slurred Word3 days agoAlex Garland's Apocalypse Thriller is a War Epic Like No OtherInverse - Siddhant AdlakhaAlex Garland’s terrifying dystopian war movie takes an apolitical bent for a political purpose. A disorienting premonition, Alex Garland’s Civil War …