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Optimism about US democracy, with sports metaphors and statics nerdery: https://open.substack.com/pub/natesilver/p/dont-discount-american-democracys?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Don't discount American democracy's resilience
The U.S. has a highly popular democratic tradition, even as it battles an authoritarian element.

🍩 'Doughnut Economics' shows how global growth is out of balance—and how we can fix it
#economics

'Doughnut Economics' shows how global growth is out of balance—and how we can fix it
A new update to an influential economic theory called "Doughnut Economics" shows a global economy on a collision course with nature.

Americans express fear and negativity toward AI, often relying on bad arguments like water usage, a stark contrast with Asia and Europe's relative positivity (Noah Smith/Noahpinion)
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/i-love-ai-why-doesnt-everyone

I love AI. Why doesn't everyone?
Anti-AI sentiment might or might not be rational, but it certainly relies on a lot of bad arguments.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
The Cure:
🎵 Disintegration
#TheCure
https://mrlckmshp.bandcamp.com/track/disko-cure-hey-disintegration-ascii-disko-hey-vs-the-cure-disintegration
https://open.spotify.com/track/5LO3M8pfuprpwNN1p3tuxW

Thousands of mail-in ballots could be discounted under new post office policy
A recent change to how the U.S. Postal Service says it postmarks letters could discount the ballots of thousands of last-minute voters.

Many Americans have long assumed that tax returns, ballots and other mailed documents sent on deadline would be marked as sent the day they are dropped in a mailbox.

But the Postal Service announced Dec. 24 that it was making no such guarantees about postmarks. <…

Thousands of mail-in ballots could be discounted under new post office policy
The Postal Service is no longer guaranteeing when it will postmark mail, which could jeopardize some ballots that arrive after Election Day.

Putin doesn't care about Russia – he enjoys war #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/03/putin-doesnt-care-about-russia.html

Scoop: ICE Plans to Descend on Phoenix (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-ice-plans-to-descend-on-phoenix-arizona
http://www.memeorandum.com/260102/p34#a260102p34

Yeah, Jimmy “I’m actually quite in favour of business and capitalism and all that”* Wales, the surveillance capitalist and Fandom-president adtech man who once told me he doesn’t believe in any form of government regulation – not even in food standards or healthcare – can go fuck himself.
Find better heroes. Or even better yet, get over the whole stupid concept itself.
*

Adobe plans to discontinue its 2D animation software Animate on March 1; enterprise customers can receive support until March 2029, and others until March 2027 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/adobe-animate-is-shutting-down…

Adobe Animate is shutting down as company focuses on AI | TechCrunch
Adobe Animate will be discontinued on March 1, 2026, as Adobe shifts its focus to AI.