Donald Trump has long been convinced that any moment now, Jews are going to abandon the Democratic Party and become Republicans. His strategy to bring this change about is to periodically berate Jews and traffic in antisemitic stereotypes, even as he proclaims himself the Jews’ greatest friend. That was always repugnant, but today it has become even more dangerous
In a radio interview earlier this week with his odious former aide Sebastian Gorka (it’s amazing how many of Trump’s two-bit grifters are still hanging around), Trump responded to a speech Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer gave in which he criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and called on Israel to hold new elections by saying, “Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion.
“Two words, nine letters. Say it and I’m yours.” -Not Blair Waldorf but me, re: “Empty Cups”
After weeks, months, and seemingly years of teasing new music on TikTok in an extremely cringey yet flustering fashion, Charlie Puth finally released an all-new single last week entitled “Light Switch,” the first piece of the puzzle that is his now-confirmed upcoming album, Charlie. Now that the TikTok macroinfluencer is finally answering my years-long prayer for a follow-up to his last full-length album, Voicenotes, and since recently adding my favorite Puth-made track and the subject of this post back into my daily repertoire thanks to a Harry Styles- and Shawn Mendes-induced meltdown with the group chat the other night, it’s finally time I speak my truth.
This is just a short blog on a “gotcha” that initially caught me while developing dynamic library code on OS X. Suppose that you are developing a dynamic library which can act as a runtime replacement for an existing runtime library (e.g. LOMP as a, currently incomplete and risky, replacement for the CLANG or GCC OpenMP runtime).
You want to have an existing executable which has been dynamically linked against the compiler’s runtime use your runtime instead.
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My wife, Kristen Hege, and I will backpack the 2,600-mile Pacific Crest Trail from the Mexican border to Canada beginning on March 25th.
Let me be clear, I am not the foremost expert on ice skating on frozen lakes. In fact, I’m a pretty terrible ice skater. However, that doesn’t keep me from hauling my ice skates up to some of the most scenic lakes in Colorado and having an epic time. No one wants to be on the evening news for falling in a frozen lake so use this as a guide to help you plan your own safe adventure.
— It is 2am on Monday morning and Jerretta Sandoz, a vice president with the Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL) and an LAPD sergeant (at least through January 2023, according to her LinkedIn account), is on Fox News Channel for a live interview during which she excoriates recently elected LA City Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez even though the story she is promoting was debunked several days earlier.Soto-Martinez, a socialist, won the District 13 Council seat on a platform that included defunding and even abolishing the LAPD.
Ed Piskor of the Cartoonist Kayfabe channel has been one of the darlings of the mainstream comic industry for years. His channel features interviews with top-tier creators and deep dives into comic history. Jim Rugg and Ed Piskor have created a cottage industry of content and a community that props up mainstream comics. Now, DMs from Ed Piskor have been revealed, showing a darker side to Cartoonist Kayfabe.
Despite what looks like a friendly community on the surface, the Cartoonist Kayfabe group is part of the overall comic industry whisper network, carefully gatekeeping anyone with politics outside of the extreme leftism that’s permeated the industry.
I have so many friends writing about music on Substack, and some of them I helped recruit to the platform. So I’m hopelessly biased, and would want to give you a list of more than 20 names. (And I know several other hotshot talents who will be joining the platform soon—which complicates things further.) For that reason, I simply can’t serve up a short and sweet list. But I’m sure others will step in and point you in the direction of worthy talent.