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Recently, I read about venture capitalist Marc Andreessen putting his 12,000-square-foot mansion in Atherton, California, which has seven fireplaces, up for sale for $33.75 million. This was done to spend more time, one supposes, at the $177 million home he owns in Paradise Cove, California; or the $34 million one he bought beside it; or the $44.5 million one in a place called Escondido Beach. Upon reading this, I realized it was time to stop procrastinating and tell you all a story I’ve been meaning to set down for a long time now about the time I visited that house (the cheap $33.75 million one, I mean). Strictly on a need-to-know basis. Because you really need to know how deeply twisted some of these plutocrats who run our society truly are.
Andreessen, I learned, was “Tomorrow’s Advance Man.” He superintended the “newest and most unusual” venture capital firm on Menlo Park’s Sand Hill Road. He “seethes with beliefs” and is “afire to reorder life as we know it.” His enthusiasms included replacing money with cryptocurrency; replacing cooked food with a scheme called, yes, “Soylent,” and boosting the now-invisible Oculus virtual reality headset.
Zero for three when it comes to picking useful inventions to reorder life as we know it, that is to say, though at no apparent cost to his power or net worth, now pegged at an estimated $1.7 billion. Along the way, I also learned he was a major stockholder in Facebook and a member of the civilian board that helped oversee the Central Intelligence Agency. Much later, it was in a tweet of his that I first saw the phrase “woke mind virus.” (He’s not a fan.) | |
Submitted at Today, 01:13 AM by sleeppoor | |
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Two new high-quality polls suggest an electoral dagger could be coming for Donald Trump—if their findings persist. Both polls, from Marist College and NBC News, show third-party candidate Robert F. | |
Submitted at Today, 12:46 AM by Mordant | |
Authorities told students they could face criminal trespass charges if they didn’t disperse. The arrests come amid tensions on campuses across the country over the Israel-Hamas war. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 08:36 PM by sleeppoor | |
The recent ruling by the state supreme court has heightened tensions in the county attorney race in populous Maricopa County, with one candidate pledging to not prosecute abortions. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 07:04 PM by sleeppoor | |
Rigid school attendance zones allow districts to legally keep many students of color and low-income families out of coveted, elite K-12 public schools, a new study finds.
Why it matters: The U.S. will soon mark the 70th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision that ended legal segregation in public schools. Yet, researchers found growing inequality in school access as the nation has become more diverse, according to the new study by nonpartisan education watchdog Available to All.
School segregation between Black and white students has returned to 1968 levels. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 07:05 PM by sleeppoor | |
The United States is forcing the Chinese company Bytedance to sell TikTok to a US owner or risk a ban from American app stores. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 05:40 PM by nocash | |
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators are using their minds, even if universities don’t appreciate it. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 01:38 PM by nocash | |
The Minnesota policy wonk posting his way to power and influence. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 01:38 PM by nocash | |
How bots, mercenaries, and table scalpers have turned the restaurant reservation system inside out. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 04:17 AM by sleeppoor | |
Two weeks after a man fatally slipped into the icy grip of the North Saskatchewan River after police tried to stop him for a bicycle violation, the officers involved have been cleared by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT)...
The city police Air-1 helicopter quickly located the man and the pursuing officers, recording the ordeal with its video system which ASIRT has now reviewed.
None of the officers used force against the man, and none were nearby when he slipped on the river ice.
“During the pursuit, the male can be seen riding a bike without the necessary equipment, which corroborates the officers reasoning for attempting to stop the male,” said the ASIRT release, adding no use of force is shown. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 03:38 AM by sleeppoor | |
The significant victory for the ‘Squad’ member comes amid concerns of pro-Israel funding targeting pro-ceasefire candidates.
Despite the absence of [AIPAC], one Super Pac did get involved in Lee’s primary to boost Patel’s campaign. The Moderate Pac, which aims to support centrist Democrats and is largely funded by Republican megadonor Jeffrey Yass, spent more than $600,000 supporting Patel. Lee and her allies turned Yass’ involvement in the race into a campaign issue, lambasting the billionaire’s Super Pac contributions.
“We’re going to send them a message that, whether it’s Jeffrey Yass or Jeffrey Bezos, their billion dollars aren’t welcome here,” Lee said at a rally in Pittsburgh on Sunday. “There is no room for people who would use our communities against each other for their own political ambition.” | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 03:17 AM by sleeppoor | |
BREAKING: TikTok might not be around much longer in the US. The Senate just passed a bill that included an ultimatum for the company: divest or be banned altogether. The next stop is President Biden’s desk. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 02:08 AM by sleeppoor | |
Queer cinema has always been in a state of continual evolution, but the evolution of trans depiction has come slower, even during agreed-upon golden eras of queer cinema. But in 2024, we are in the midst of a potentially new movement in which three trans-authored films are reshaping the possibilities of what a trans film looks like, and how transness can be expressed in cinema. | |
Submitted at 04-23-2024, 08:20 PM by sleeppoor | |
Missed deadlines and tension among Taiwanese and American coworkers are plaguing the chip giant’s Phoenix expansion. | |
Submitted at 04-23-2024, 06:59 PM by sleeppoor | |
A few days later, on Thursday, McNally reported that, at 8:30 p.m. a man sat at the bar, “released six domesticated white mice from a paper bag, and ran out of the restaurant.” A bartender, he says, ran after the man, while “the mice were quickly caught.”
McNally points out how moments after the mice incident occurred, socialite Michelle Manning Barish posted a video of a mouse running in the bar area, echoing his McNally’s Instagram post, calling it, “absolutely REVOLTING.” He cites her as having written, “And the owner is vocally antisemitic, a defender of sexual predators, decided to cyber bully Lauren Sanchez and even creepy with me. Karma,” to which he wonders if she “orchestrated this vile stunt or was at least party to it?” Eater has contacted Barish for comment. | |
Submitted at 04-23-2024, 03:18 PM by Wreckard | |
Cooper started doing seagull impressions after being nipped by one of the birds.
The family heard about the competition from a random man who overheard Cooper doing impressions at a soft-play centre and suggested Cooper could compete.
He scored 92 points out of a possible 100, which meant he won the juvenile category and also had the highest points score in the competition.
The other categories were for adults and also for "colonies", meaning a group of people doing seagull impressions.
Cooper took his lucky mascot with him - a small model seagull which he calls Stephen and his spells with a "ph", but his parents call Steven Seagull, like the actor Steven Seagal. | |
Submitted at 04-23-2024, 11:54 AM by Wreckard | |
A glimpse of the suburban grotesque, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney. | |
Submitted at 04-23-2024, 12:16 AM by B. Weed | |
Following a trial process, in which 37-year-old Neely Raye Pesognellie Petrie-Blanchard represented herself in her murder trial of 50-year-old Christopher Hallett, jurors deliberated on Friday, April 19, 2024, for roughly 30 minutes before finding Petrie-Blanchard guilty of Murder in the First-Degree with a Firearm. | |
Submitted at 04-22-2024, 07:31 PM by sleeppoor | |
Snake bite victims are endangering medical staff by bringing the reptiles with them to hospital, doctors say.
In Queensland's Wide Bay region, doctors have come face to face with some of the world's most venomous snakes captured by patients believing it'll help with identification and treatment.
In one case earlier this month, emergency staff at Bundaberg Hospital, four hours north of Brisbane, were handed a plastic food container with a small eastern brown snake inside peering back at them. | |
Submitted at 04-22-2024, 01:46 PM by Wreckard | |
The Granite State could be the first to ditch polio and measles requirements for childcare. | |
Submitted at 04-22-2024, 01:46 AM by sleeppoor | |