The Spectator has 113K subscribers, a record, print is its fastest-growing type of subscription, and it is offering its subscription service to external clients (Freddie Sayers/The Spectator)
https://spectator.com/article/the-spectators-record-subscriber-numbers/
In the two weeks since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran,
Donald Trump increasingly has been knocked on his political heels.
He’s grown more agitated with news coverage
and has failed to find a way to explain why he started the war
— or how he will end it
— that resonates with a public concerned by American deaths in the conflict,
surging oil prices
and dropping financial markets.
Even some of his supporters are questioning his pla…
OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage announces AVERI, a nonprofit aimed at advocating the idea of external audits for frontier AI models (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/15/former-…
highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
Where upon the house combo at the Brasserie drifts into a modified version of one of Toad-O's big hit numbers BUDDY JONES stares longingly at the little nozzles pooching out of Mary's moistened upper clothing, but it's too late...WARREN, one of the other guys from Joe's Garage Band has already recognized her (he's now one of the foremost disco-fusion rhythm guitar players on the Wet T-shirt circuit, currently providing exciting strummery here in Miami), and is in the process of getting the d…
Regardless of what you think of today's results, I think we can all thank the #hockey gods that neither of the close games ended in penalties. Just about any other way of deciding a winner - number of total letters in the names of everyone on the squad, a debate on Heidegger's hermeneutics, a figure-skate-off, whatever - would be better.
Rep. Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin’s Third District
wants you to think he is a tough guy.
He wears his Navy SEAL Trident like a shield, using his past service to deflect from the fact that he is a traitor to this country and tried to overthrow a democratically elected government on January 6th, 2021.
Derrick Van Orden is not a tough guy. He is a thug. And his race should be the number one target in Wisconsin.
Over the next year, we must strip away the costume and sh…
Sources: President Trump is increasingly taking journalists' calls himself, as his personal phone number circulates and is offered for sale to rich individuals (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/
highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted