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The Great Escape
The Alchemist • Larry June Empire • 2023 The Great Escape is a chemical reaction between two contrary approaches to hip-hop that balance each other to a perfect pH. This is album is a testament to the power of the proverbial ‘power duo’. There have been many. Zapp and Roger. Hall and Oats. Cleopatra and…
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Oil Supply Tightening While HB11 Technology Receives DOE Grant
The United States, one of the world’s biggest importers of heavy-sour crude has realized a 14% decline in production since last year. The U.S. lost five rigs from last week’s count and the count fell by 1 unit, reaching 631 rigs working for the week ended Sept. 1, according to Baker Hughes data. The count…
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Farmers Pulls out of California and Lays off 2,400 Employees
Farmers Insurance, a top ten P&C company, announced Monday that they not only be laying off 11% of its workforce, equaling 2,400 employees, but they will also not be accepting new homeowners policies in California. Decisions like these are made in an effort to protect and maintain suitable solvency, but they also stand as a…
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Why is Turkey a Member of NATO?
With Turkey’s balancing act between Putin and the West since Russia’s eastern offensive of Ukraine, the NATO country’s affiliation may finally, yet debatably, be swaying to the west. Up to now Turkey, a NATO member since 1952, has had unsettling trade and geopolitical relations with Russia. Under the governance of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, prescribed sanctions…
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Official Statements by Fired White Sox Front Office Members
Coming in at fourth in the AL Central, the Chicago White Sox officially fired senior members of the front office this week in both Kenny Williams and Rick Hahn. Both Williams and Hahn have made official statements on their untimely departures. First, from Williams: “I thank Jerry Reinsdorf for the opportunity he gave me to…
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Lackluster Civilian Protection in FY24 House NDAA
With the NDAA 2024 (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024) being volleyed from the Republican house to the Democratic senate and back to the house attempting to surreptitiously add or remove socially conservative amendments that deal with cutting military funding for gender reassignment and abortion, the budget plan leaves out a few major…
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Reverse Engineering the Human Mind
With the recent advent of ChatGPT and the mind-blowing mathematical lognormal rule discovered that governs the very distrubution of neurons in our brains, it is clear that an entirely new behemoth of an industry is emerging in the field of AI and cybernetics. A technical paper titled “A Review of Graphene-Based Memristive Neuromorphic Devices and…
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Yanqui U.X.O.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Constellation • 2002 It rarely gets better than this in music. Movements reminiscent of Viktor Frankl’s reveries encompassed by Orwellian tinctures and the dynamics of the Philharmonic Orchestra. This album deserves a standing ovation. It is an epic, it is a journey. It is Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Described by the…
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‘Crypto King’ Kidnapped and Beaten by Defrauded Investors
A disgruntled Toronto investor who lost hundreds of thousands of dollars to Ontario’s self-proclaimed ‘Crypto King’ is one of five men facing felony charges connected to the alleged kidnapping and beating of Aiden Pleterski last December. Akil Heywood, chairman of event company Atlantic Mas, has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping Pleterski and for threatening the…
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Ukraine’s Counteroffensive in Peril
With the Ukrainian counteroffensive grinding through i’s third month, citizens are duty-bound to keep their personal information at draft offices up to date. Ukraine’s defense ministry is urging military-age citizens to ‘overcome fear’ in a recent enlistment campaign. Ukrainian forces are not expected to reach and retake the Russian-occupied strategic southeastern city of Melitopol during…
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IRS Agent Killed by Fellow Agent in Routine Firearms Training
It was confirmed on Friday by the FBI that an IRS agent was shot and killed in a routine firearms training. The shooting occurred on Thursday at the firing range of the Phoenix federal prison, which also happens to be an interagency training ground for federal agents in the Phoenix region. Special agent Patrick Bauer,…
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China’s Second Largest Property Developer Files for Bankruptcy
The once second largest property developer in China, the Evergrande Group, has sought help from the United States in filing for Chapter 15 Bankruptcy. In its decent, the beleaguered firm borrowed heavily and defaulted on its debt in 2021. This sparked a property crisis in the China economy, which continues to feel its impact.…
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GigaIO’s New 32 GPU AI Supercomputer Unveiled
GigaIO, the computer hardware company staking it’s claim on the emerging AI markets with new configuration possibilities like the Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure (CDI), has achieved new supercomputing heights with the first ever 32 GPU single-node supercomputer. Headquartered in Carlsbad, California, GigaIO democratizes AI and HPC (High Performance Computing) architectures by delivering the elasticity of the…
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Disney Hedges Losses with Sports Betting
Penn Entertainment (NASDAQ: PENN), who recently sold back sports blog Barstool Sports to its founder, Dave Portnoy, has turned its eyes to partner with The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS). The divestiture of Barstool Sports back to Portnoy was completed for only 1$ in return for “non-compete and other restrictive covenants” as well as the…
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HEY WHAT
Low Sub Pop • 2021 This album is epic. It’s a slowcore glitch masterpiece. Having been a band that cut their teeth in the Midwest grunge scene in the early 90’s and influencing bands like Pedro The Lion, I was drawn to this band and obviously inclined to hear their later material. Defunct now, they…
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I Showed U So
Yo Gotti x DJ Drama 2023 Yo Gotti has been on my radar since the Concealed mixtape. While I’m not as much of a fan of any of his mainstream commercial work, due to the generic context, this album has a decent sound. Probably because it’s not a mainstream release, it’s a mixtape. Actually, it’s…
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UK Refugees Board a Controversial Barge Which Stands as an Indicator of a Worldwide Housing Emergency
With the Tory government’s raison d’être in championing Brexit was to control Britain’s migration and “turn back the boats”, it is with a sense of irony that asylum-seekers have boarded a controversial barge moored in southern England Monday. This boat, named Bibby Stockholm, is docked in Portland, on the Dorset coast of southwest England. The…