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Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Alleged Italian Mobsters Grew Powerful in Toronto. Experts Say Canadian Law Can’t Stop Them





McDonald’s makes major change to drive-thrus after mishaps go viral Daily Mail 

US executive pay rises at fastest rate in 14 yearsFinancial Times

Men-Only, Christian-Only Secret Society Gets More Secret
 TPM


Alleged Italian Mobsters Grew Powerful in Toronto. Experts Say Canadian Law Can’t Stop Them.


AI candidate running for Parliament in the U.K. says AI can humanize politics NBC


The Steinmetz Scandals

Beny Steinmetz was a titan in the diamond world, but scandal brought his flagship firm to its knees. As he awaits his appeal decision in a bribery case, OCCRP investigated…



You’ve tried the cowboys now try the Indians



Why begin unless you intend to see things to the end? And do not rely on the words you overheard in a dream, not knowing what they mean, how they sound, those half-shadowed chess pieces maneuvering in and out of thought, unthought. Language goes hard as time at the first understanding. Everything goes inside it, which is an unopened box . . . vague outline of a blue box against a black background. 

Then your voice’s children as they escape to the street, as they wade into the crowd . . . the wind sucks them through a bone. A plume of exhalation withers on the zero air. We know only one thing, as a novel knows one story, like a closed book reading its own discrete emotions pressed to paper word by word, comma by comma. 

It is not only duration allows our mouths approaching by halves to sometimes kiss. A word is startled by the eye, and something is unknown, if still discrete, no longer.

Observation It is hard to look at things, harder to say what you see. Rattle each grain of sand in its grave of desert?