Il 25 ottobre 2011, in sole sei ore, oltre 350 mm di pioggia si abbatterono sulle #CinqueTerre. I torrenti esondarono, le colate di fango travolsero #Vernazza e #Monterosso, e un paesaggio modellato nei secoli andò in frantumi in poche ore.
Il 25 ottobre 2011, in sole sei ore, oltre 350 mm di pioggia si abbatterono sulle Cinque Terre. I torrenti esondarono, le colate di fango travolsero Vernazza e Monterosso, e un paesaggio modellato nei secoli andò in frantumi in poche ore.
Le Cinque Terre, situate nella regione italiana della Liguria, sono una serie di pittoreschi villaggi costieri noti per la loro bellezza e la loro attrattiva turistica.
Pro-[url=https://www.thecanary.co/topics/israel/]Israel[/url] lobby groups, media, and trolls have tried to manufacture outrage by claiming that a man – not named, but described as the “founder of the Society of Independent Legal Observers” (SILO) – was ‘
Pro-Israel lobby groups, media, and trolls have tried to manufacture outrage by claiming that a man – not named, but described as the “founder of the Society of Independent Legal Observers” (SILO) – was ‘arrested for wearing a Star of David necklace’ over the weekend. Stephen Pollard, former editor of the libel-riddled Jewish Chronicle, went to the Tory Spectator to demand to know why “the Met think [sic] the Star of David is offensive”:
Far-right broadcaster GB News described the arrest as ‘insane’:
But the man was not arrested for ‘wearing a Star of David’, nor even for “antagonising pro-Palestine protesters”.
No, he was not arrested for ‘wearing the Star of David’
Instead, a statement from the Met reveals that he was arrested for repeatedly defying orders to stay away from a group of Jews peacefully protesting against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, members of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) – and the Israel lobbyists had dishonestly edited video to support their false claim:
We understand the concerns raised, but the claim this man was arrested for wearing a star of David necklace is not true. He was arrested for allegedly repeatedly breaching Public Order Act conditions that were in place to keep opposing protest groups apart.
The conditions required protesters from the pro-Israel group Stop the Hate to remain in one area with protesters from the pro-Palestinian group IJAN required to remain in a separate area.
The man told officers he was acting as an independent legal observer but his actions are alleged to have breached the conditions in place, and to have gone beyond observing in an independent and neutral way to provoking and, as such, actively participating as a protester.
Over the course of an hour, the man is alleged to have continuously approached the area allocated to IJAN, getting very close to protesters to film them and provoking a reaction. Officers had to intervene at least four times to ask the man to return to the Stop the Hate area as required by the conditions.
When he failed to do so after multiple warnings, he was arrested. He was released on bail and the investigation continues.
The clipped footage released, in which officers question the man’s status and actions as an independent legal observer, is six minutes of an hour-long interview. We can fully appreciate why this clip in isolation causes concern and we are continuing to review and work with communities to understand the concerns they have voiced.
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We’ve been here before
The case brings to mind the incident last year involving Gideon Falter, boss of the Israel-funded lobby group that calls itself ‘Campaign against Antisemitism’ (CAA). Falter claimed he had been prevented from crossing the road because he was Jewish and an anti-Israel (in fact, anti-genocide) march was approaching. UK ‘mainstream’ media immediately (of course) amplified his claim, giving abundant airtime to interviews in which he repeated his claim and his attacks on anti-genocide protest.
But video evidence proved that Falter had not been ‘just trying to cross the road’. Instead, accompanied by a clan of minders and bodyguards, he was trying deliberately to impede the march. Under eventual challenge on camera, Falter fell to pieces and refused to discuss the issue. Only Sky Newsappeared even to have modified its reporting when this evidence became public – no doubt because it doesn’t help the regime’s narrative that anti-genocide protests are ‘hate marches’ and peaceful protesters are a threatening ‘mob’.
CAA, described by human rights group CAGE as one of the two key pro-apartheid organisations in the UK, is one of the most prominent groups among the UK Israel lobby, even boasting of its role in getting the Starmer government to ban the non-violent anti-genocide protest group Palestine Action as terrorists. CAGE has complained to the Charity Commission about CAA’s lack of transparency about its sources of funding and its blatantly political activities.
What is SILO?
SILO, the group apparently ‘founded’ by the alleged agitator arrested by the Met, is mentioned by the trolls as if it is something noteworthy and substantial. However, a ‘WHOIS’ search for its domain reveals that its website, which is hosted on Israeli domain firm Wix, only came into existence in June.
The website’s ‘about’ section – in fact the whole website – contains nothing except a two-line ‘welcome’, an email address and an image of what appear to be pencil cases or make-up bags:
The ‘welcome’ claims the organisation is “dedicated to upholding justice and protecting rights”, but gives no detail of any justice it has upheld or rights it has protected, nor whose rights it is interested in protecting, or even of who else is in the ‘society’ except for its un-named ‘founder’ – who may be named Levy, according to an apparently now-deleted reference to him in an AOL article whose link is still listed by Google:
Arrested for wearing the Star of David = it was a scam
Without any detail on its own site or others about its activities, it’s not currently possible to say what rights SILO is interested in, but the arrest of Mr Maybe-Levy at the weekend for allegedly trying to get at a group of Jewish anti-Zionist protesters strongly suggests that the rights in question may be those of Israel and those who support it, like CAA – and its fellow apartheid-apologist group (according to CAGE) UK Lawyers for Israel, who are currently under investigation for making ‘baseless and vexatious’ legal threats to try to silence Israel’s critics and have used such tactics against everyone from doctors and hospital boards to streaming services.
As always, if an Israeli official or supporter are talking, there’s a very good chance the story is not what you are being told. As an Iranian official observed drily last week in reference to a promise from Israeli PM Netanyahu that he isn’t planning to attack Iran, they are:
Here’s our next instalment of things that happened in ..25 years of yore.
Some Notable Events in 1725
20 January.20. James Figg hosts the first recorded international boxing match, fought between English livestock drover Bob Whitaker and Venetian gondolier Alberto di Carni in London .
20 February. The first reported case of white men scalping Native Americans takes place in New Hampshire colony.
25 March. Bach’s chorale cantata Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, is first performed on the Feast of the Annunciation, coinciding with Palm Sunday.
30 March. The second performance of Bach’s St John Passion takes place at St Thomas Church, Leipzig.
12 May. The Black Watch is raised as a military company, as part of the pacification of the Scottish Highlands under General George Wade.
24 June. The Grand Lodge of Ireland in Dublin holds its first recorded meeting, making it the second most senior Grand Lodge in world Freemasonry.
24 September.Born. Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d.1803).
29 September.Born. Robert Clive, British general, statesman (d.1774) .
24 October.Died. Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (b.1660).
26 November. British astronomers James Bradley and Samuel Molyneux set up a telescope in Molyneux’s private observatory to begin their observations of stellar parallax of the star Gamma Draconis. The observations lead to Bradley’s pioneering discovery of the aberration of light.
Unknown Date.Gradus ad Parnassum, a seminal work on counterpoint, laying out rules of constructing music, is published by Johann Joseph Fux.
I've removed it on our end for you. No idea how it would work cross-software/instances, but would you like to moderate this community? Its currently unmoderated.
PUTRAJAYA: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has failed to prevent wars, as many global conflicts arise from its member nations acting without consensus.
I was trying to think for a couple days on what can be done to make Linux phones a reality. Then I realized the EU is already pushing for more Open Source/ Linux to be used so why not make the most of it?
So if I may make a couple suggestions for Europe Linux enthusiasts and collectively all of us to push for:
1st. For EU and Europe to partner up with PostmarketOS, Mobian, Ubuntu Touch, Edited In: Next Iteration of GrapheneOS for their partnership, and FSF Librephone Project to fund/produce/distribute open source repairable changable OS linux phones . Then for future tablets. To have multiple eggs developing
2nd. For EU and Europe to partner up with KDE, Framework, and Tuxedo Computers to fund/produce/distribute Laptops/Computers
Edited In: 3rd. Partner up with OEM Manufacturers such as Nokia and Motorola. Both of whom have good track records
Linux Community over there has so much ability to grow Linux if everyone there collectively gets it done. I humbly request you do that and I’ll do the same. Who should I call to get all this going as well? Want to help do this in a way that benefits all sides while keeping those projects independent
(I would have posted this on LinuxPhone but this community is way bigger and still open source related)
Really hoping all of you in and out of Europe and EU can push for it to be done. Edited In: Maybe Latin, African, and Asian Countries can partner up as well to make it happen even faster. But the most protections are within the EU so far
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I see you're making a joke about it actually being worse for the environment.
But serious answer: I think they'll be sourced from companies using bulk onions as an ingredient, who can now sell the skins for a profit, thus lowering the prices of those end products while keeping the prices of onions the same.
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Un libro, scritto a quattro mani, nato d’impeto al termine di un’intervista pubblica del giornalista Roberto Orlando al commissario della Polizia di Stato Flavio Bottaro.
Un libro, scritto a quattro mani, nato d’impeto al termine di un’intervista pubblica del giornalista Roberto Orlando al commissario della Polizia di Stato Flavio Bottaro.
Il libro racconta l’esperienza, unica e non replicabile, di vent’anni di investigazioni nella Squadra Omicidi genovese, in un intreccio di rapporti umani e professionali - fuori dal comune e vissuti nei frangenti forse più dolorosi e delicati di un’epoca di grandi trasformazioni nella storia recente della città - che meritano di essere conosciuti e ricordati.
Questo libro, scritto a quattro mani, nasce d’impeto al termine di un’intervista pubblica del giornalista Roberto Orlando al commissario della Polizia di Stato Flavio Bottaro.
Svettanti e abnormi prominenze sui confini delle terre frequentate dalle antiche civilizzazioni, le colonne d’Ercole servivano in maniera funzionale il proprio scopo mitologico e ancestrale: da una parte il monte Abila, massiccio forse corrispondente…
QUEEN’S PARK - After resale tickets to the Blue Jays’ World Series immediately skyrocketed into the thousands of dollars, Ontario Premier Doug Ford held a press conference to place the blame solely on the total dickhead of a premier who scrapped a resale-capping law in 2019.
QUEEN’S PARK - After resale tickets to the Blue Jays’ World Series immediately skyrocketed into the thousands of dollars, Ontario Premier Doug Ford held a press conference to place the blame solely on the total dickhead of a premier who scrapped a re…
Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has revealed that his administration is already considering possible locations for foreign military bases should a referendum scheduled for November 16 authorize such measures.
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My god, this is just hilarious. Remember, kids: If a piece of furniture that has been basically agreed upon for thousands of years (with some changes) needs a cloud connection:
You're paying too much.
You'll continue paying too much.
You might wake up sweating in an uncomfortable position.
This week’s Amazon Web Services outage had some people waking up on the wrong side of the bed.
A Domain Name System (DNS) resolution problem affected AWS cloud hosting, resulting in an outage that impacted more than 1,000 web-based products and services and millions of people.
Perhaps one of the most avoidable breakdowns came via people’s beds. The reliance on the Internet for smart bed products from Eight Sleep resulted in people being awoken by beds locked into inclined positions and sweltering temperatures.
As spotted by Dexerto, the AWS outage caused smart mattress covers from Eight Sleep to malfunction. These “Pod” mattress covers connect to a physical hub, and users can set the covers to temperatures between 55° and 110° Fahrenheit via a companion app. Eight Sleep also sells smart mattress bases that let people control their bed’s elevation with the app. As of this writing, the Pods’ MSRPs range from $2,449 to $3,249, and the base has a $1,950 MSRP. Eight Sleep also sells its Autopilot feature through an annual subscription that starts at $199. Autopilot is supposed to help automatically set Eight Sleep devices to users’ optimal sleeping conditions. Pod purchases require a one-year subscription to Autopilot.
There's admittedly a bit of Schadenfreude here. You seriously subscribed to a fucking bed?
Ronald Reagan faced eight partial government shutdowns between 1981 and 1989. He said a shutdown “is never the right way to resolve differences” because it “undermines confidence in government.” Back then they were seen as breakdowns in negotiation, not bargaining tools.
Today some politicians use them as leverage. When did that change and who made it normal? Was Reagan wrong?
That's an interesting divergence between the hed and URL, but that's really the least of the issues.
Here’s a job pitch you don’t see often.
What if, instead of “work-life balance,” you had no balance at all—your life was your work… and work happened seven days a week?
Did I say days? I actually meant days and nights, because the job I’m talking about wants you to know that you will also work weekends and evenings, and that “it’s ok to send messages at 3am.”
Also, I hope you aren’t some kind of pajama-wearing wuss who wants to work remotely; your butt had better be in a chair in a New York City office on Madison Avenue, where you need enough energy to “run through walls to get things done” and respond to requests “in minutes (or seconds) instead of hours.”
I mean, I've had such a job.
And if I needed to talk to my boss at 3 a.m., we were either still awake or I rolled over and poked her shoulder.
That environment is fine when it happens organically. This is just absurd.
FUTO is an organization that talks a lot of rhetoric about being some bastion of consumer rights in tech, but they're doing a lot of shitty, shady, and downright evil things. Among them, FUTO has been in the practice of making small grants to FOSS projects (like ffmpeg and musl) and then plastering the FOSS project's name and logo all over the FUTO site in a way that makes it seem as if FUTO is endorsed by said FOSS projects when that's not the case at all.
(All this after doing everything in their power with their rhetoric to try to discredit and degrade the entire FOSS community. They wrote an "apology", but even in the apology, they express their "disdain for OSI approved licenses". Mind you, ~~none of FUTO's projects are Open Source~~ most of their projects are proprietary.)
After that article came out just a couple of days ago, apparently they redid their site, I'd have to guess in an effort to address the concern that the way FUTO presented their grant program before implied endorsement by a lot of FOSS projects that didn't endorse them in any way. I don't think they've done enough, and there are tons of other reasons to think FUTO is evil assholes using consumer rights rhetoric to manipulate people in service to its (fully for-profit) bottom line.
Other concerns in the article include FUTO's connection to explicit/proud fascists and using their platform to (even coercing Louis Rossmann into) spread fascist propaganda.
Thanks for posting this. Just uninstalled Futo keyboard and its neighboring speech to text app. Gotta hunt around for a replacement on both, tho I've been using Heliboard, which is okay. Still really bad at swipe predictions.
The voice recognition is honestly the best I've ever used. It'll be a shame to give it up.
If I decide to switch keyboards, I'm certain I would go back to HeliBoard.
There's been a real explosion of open source voice recognition over the past few months, and I haven't tested a lot. Whisper+ looks like a promising one. Before using Futo, I used Sayboard, which I was pretty happy with.
I'm not the most straight-looking person and I ever since high school have people calling me or just assume I was gay. It has always brothers me being labelled as "gay", even when I used to identify as one, as it never felt like it exactly resemble to me compare to the label, Queer or Bisexual. It wouldn't annoy me as much if people stop assuming sexuality, especially them guessing if someone is straight or gay but doesn't even think about other sexuality.
It doesn't help that I read online about straight women having major icks with Bisexual men, whether it's thinking they're cheaters (as if straight people don't also cheat as well) or just in denial about their sexuality. The only time I felt genuine happiness for being Bi was going to a swinger event one time and it was me and group of guys getting dominated by a woman. I felt like I lived in best of both world at that night where I can explore my Bisexual side where otherwise, I mainly hookup with men. Sure, I'm more attached to men but I also attached to women as well and wish I express that side more. One of the thing I feel anxious about the most is what if she [whoever the person I will date in the future] would be disgusted of both my sexuality as well as me for not being vanilla and also thinks that I'm a slut.
Honestly, I wish I stop overthinking which it is easier said than done. With my history of shitty friends that I used to hangout with, it did make me have such a low self-esteem till the point where I'm scared to do anything as I feel like I'm going to get mocked by people, even the ones who claimed to liked me.
Don’t worry too much about it. People who will judge you for looking or acting gay aren’t worth your time anyway. I can say from experience that there are plenty of great women who actually want a partner who looks gay.
The question applies to any city with lots of really tall, big buildings, really. I figure that all those tall buildings would get in the way of the wind, like they make some kind of artificial lee. I've never been in a big city like that.
It depends on where you are, but the huge grids of Manhattan can definitely be windy. They’re essentially big straight channels with nothing to block an air current.
Guardrails? What guardrails? Naughty netizens found a way to trick the Sora 2 video generator into producing deepfakes of public figures, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and billionaire Mark Cuban, that make it sound as though they're spewing racial slurs. The trick works despite Sora's built-in filters meant to block hateful language.
AI detection platform Copyleaks reported Wednesday that its review of the recently released Sora 2 app, with its improved video generation model, uncovered several videos using celebrity likenesses to recreate a 2020 incident in which a man wearing a Burger King crown was kicked off a JetBlue flight for a racist tirade. In place of the James May lookalike from the original incident, Sora users recreated the scene using Altman and Cuban, as well as popular streamers xQc, Amouranth, IDKSterling, and YouTuber Jake Paul.
Sora 2 users weren't able to perfectly recreate the incident, mind you, as OpenAI's software does include guardrails to prevent the creation of content with epithets used in the original (i.e., the n-word). However, a simple homophone can be enough to sidestep those restrictions and make it sound as though public figures, including some who've opted into Sora's Cameo feature, were uttering racist slurs, according to Copyleaks.
Feel this is a good accompanying piece for all the folk insisting on caping for a Blackwater merc wth a nazi tattoo because he said something they liked.
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Let’s break this down, because we have to look at how crazy this is.
They’re saying that these companies are “avoiding or bypassing” Reddit’s TCMs. But, the way they’re doing that is by not scraping Reddit. You cannot claim that it is “circumventing a TCM” to get the same content… from Google. That’s crazy.
Even crazier is that they’re arguing that the defendants are circumventing Google’s TCM, even though Google isn’t even a party.
They’re making this claim over content that Reddit holds no copyright over. The copyright remains with the original creator. Reddit holds a license, but a license does not grant Reddit the right to sue over that copyright.
Each one of these ideas is crazy. All three of them together is ludicrous. Reddit is claiming that these companies violated copyright law by (1) avoiding Reddit and (2) getting the content from publicly available Google searches over (3) content that Reddit has no copyright over.
And somehow that’s supposed to be copyright infringement.
When Reddit sued “data scraper” companies and AI firm Perplexity earlier this week, I assumed it was another predictable skirmish over AI training data—the kind of case we’ve been…
We already have plenty of evidence of what happens when things better left to governments — which in this case might decide to never flip the switch at all — are ceded to private industry.
The unknown unknowns are real but the way that the article focuses on the part where this approach is bad because it gives people that the author doesn't like power and prestige is pretty funny. The author would rather watch things keep getting worse while waiting for a perfect solution that he knows will never come than he is to let billionaires do something that might make people think they're the good guys.
IMO we should raise sulfur dioxide levels back to where they were before the counterproductive regulations on ship emissions reduced them. We already know that that helped mitigate warming without causing catastrophe.
There aren't a ton of things I can say I'm an expert on, but SAI is. I've done a whole research project on it (can't get into specifics). This is absolutely a bad idea, I don't care who is doing it.
Also I can see you have no idea what you're talking about, because SOx and NOx are pollutants that cause acid rain among other things and damage entire ecosystems. Ya know, the thing that all of life lives in.
That's why we need to make sure it's outside the environment. Beyond the environment. With the crude oil and fire. (thanks for your input, I'll have to check out that book you suggested, Terminal Shock.)
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NO. I've personally investigated this for one of my projects, and it's a terrible idea. Things like MCB would be better, but SAI is absolutely going to wreak havoc on the entire world, and is only a cover-up for fossil fuel companies to continue to use coal and oil. We need to attack the root of the problem, not just put some duct tape over top, which will end up suffocating the whole world.
Anyone reading, look up Termination Shock (it's a cool book too).
Every time you call string.Format() with the same format string, .NET parses it again. And again. And again. CompositeFormat changes that: parse once, reuse …
Hello Khalid. The post you're replying to was actually me posting someone else's blog on Lemmy, which comes through to Mastodon with relevant hashtags automatically added, and then gets boosted out appropriately... which is how you see it. 🙂 It's better to go to the Lemmy post to have a discussion, but yeah, not my blog, so I don't know, I'm just posting stuff there (and it comes through here as well thanks to federation, which is pretty cool, but sources aren't so obvious)
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Il Comune di Échirolles dice addio a Windows 10 e abbraccia Zorin OS! Più risparmio, più sostenibilità, più libertà. Ecco come Linux sta cambiando la pubblica amministrazione #Linux #ZorinOS #Windows10
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu postponed the West Bank annexation bill on Thursday following international pressure and U.S. President Donald Trump's statements against approving the bill.
The postponement comes one day after the Knesset (the legislative body) approved the bill to apply Israeli law and sovereignty to settlements in the occupied West Bank , a controversial decision that was immediately criticized by Palestine and the international community. According to Israeli coalition leader Ofir Katz, the process was halted on Netanyahu's direct orders, and party discipline was imposed on those who voted in favor.
President Donald Trump made statements on the matter, affirming that the West Bank would not be annexed by Israel and that he would withdraw all support if it were to happen. Despite being classified by these mediators as a threat to the peace proposal developed by the United States, the ceasefire has not been fulfilled and Israel has continued attacks on occupied territory and blocked the passage of humanitarian aid to Gaza , so there has not yet been true peace for the Palestinian people.
The measure, however, is seen as a precautionary measure by the prime minister to lessen pressure from his main international ally and from Arab countries that value the nation's regional impact . Several countries had issued statements hours earlier condemning the law as a violation of international law and calling on the international community to take action against these Israeli attacks.
The bill was approved last Wednesday as a proposal by legislator Avi Maoz of the far-right Noam party, and was approved with 25 votes in favor and 24 against. The annexation idea does not represent a majority in the Israeli parliament, with the prime minister's party being one of those that did not vote in favor of the law.
Palestine made its discontent known through a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where it reaffirmed that the occupied territories in the West Bank belong to Palestine and that their sovereignty is the responsibility of the Palestinian people and their leaders . The Palestinian territory continues to be attacked by Israel despite the ceasefire, and hunger has remained a weapon of war , despite statements by Pope Leo XIV during the ceremony for the 80th anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
A new regulation will allow U.S. border authorities to require non-citizens to be photographed at airports, seaports, land crossings and any other point of departure, expanding on an earlier pilot program.
Under the regulation, set to take effect on December 26, U.S. authorities could require the submission of other biometrics, such as fingerprints or DNA, it said. It also allows border authorities to use facial recognition for children under age 14 and elderly people over age 79, groups that are currently exempted.
The tighter border rules reflect a broader effort by U.S. President Donald Trump to crack down on illegal immigration. While the Republican president has surged resources to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, he has also taken steps to reduce the number of people overstaying their visas.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the USS Gerald R. Ford and its strike group to deploy to U.S. Southern Command to “bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States," Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a social media post.
The USS Ford is currently deployed to the Mediterranean Sea along with three destroyers. It would likely take several days for the ships to make the journey to South America.
Deploying an aircraft carrier is a major escalation of military power in a region that has already seen an unusually large U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean Sea and the waters off Venezuela.
Millions of college students could face significant new obstacles paying for graduate school after federal loan limits were signed into law this summer as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Starting July 1, 2026, Grad PLUS loans will be eliminated. Those loans previously allowed graduate students to borrow up to the full cost of attendance.
New borrowers will be limited to $200,000 for professional degrees like law and medicine. Students in other graduate programs can borrow up to $100,000.
When Texas chose a company to roll out the state’s $1 billion private school voucher program, it passed over more established vendors in favor of a four-year-old tech startup that said it could do it for almost half the cost.
Now, Odyssey must execute on its promises to meet an aggressive timeline while avoiding missteps that have dogged other program launches.
The New York-based company has rapidly expanded in recent years, launching programs in eight states that subsidize students’ private education costs with taxpayer dollars.
In Texas, the startup is tasked with advertising the program, running the lottery to choose the students who participate and setting up the online marketplace where families can spend their state funds on private school tuition, tutors, computers and other approved items.
Members of America’s founding generation had an ambivalent and evolving understanding of the role and importance of public or civic “virtue”. In the 1760s and…
Donald Trump is finishing what the British started. Despite promises that the White House would be unaffected by the addition of a $230 million ballroom, the historic East Wing has in fact been demolished. The images of the site are so jarring that the Treasury Department has reportedly ordered its employees to stop taking photos of it.
If the destruction of the East Wing is a shock, the money that’s paying for it might be even more of a scandal. The White House, eager to assure Americans that their tax dollars have not been diverted for a vanity project, has emphasized that the ballroom is being financed by individuals and major corporations. Instead of going through a process to obtain and disburse federal funds, Trump simply asked the companies his administration is supposed to be regulating to write checks.
The list of donors released by the White House includes the usual deep-pocketed Republicans, such as casino magnate Miriam Adelson and private-equity mogul Stephen Schwarzman, but also a host of companies whose leaders have huge incentives to maintain good relations with an often vindictive head of state. They include telecom giants and the railroad giant Union-Pacific—which needs the Trump administration’s sign-off on a proposed $85 billion merger with Norfolk Southern. (Union-Pacific did not respond to a request for comment.) And then there’s the tech companies—Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta.
Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Google have a lot riding on their relationships with the Trump administration. They all cut checks for the ballroom.
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