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  • The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco

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  • These kinds of guys have been active in California since basically as soon as it was granted statehood. The Big Four (a clique or robber barons) tried to rule over the state with the wealth they built up with the Central Pacific Railroad.

    One of them, Leland Stanford (of Stanford University), actually did become governor and eventually senator.

    Another, Charles Crocker, invented Californian NIMBYism with his infamous spite fence.

  • Turkey says UK minehunters can’t be sent to Ukraine

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  • Ankara's their capital, but you're right to point out that this is nothing new.

    The policy also ensures that no additional Russian warships get into the Black Sea.

  • Supreme Court chief justice warns of dangers of AI in judicial work, suggests it is “always a bad idea” to cite non-existent court cases

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  • That's good advice. Shame he and his colleagues didn't follow it in 303 Creative

  • Happy (belated) CCP Day

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  • Thomas Midgley, Jr.

    Also invented CFCs (the stuff that put the hole in the ozone layer).

    In his later years, he had limited mobility, so he designed a system of pulleys and levers to give him some degree of independence. Eventually, he was found strangled by his contraption.

  • Advertising revenue in Twitter crashes by 50%

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  • As much Saudi money as he burned though, I'm expecting him to leave an embassy in a half dozen suitcases.