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Australian land and British institutions mix uncomfortably in Peter Weir's PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (1975). We speculate from our Canadian vantage points why this story has become one of the iconic documents of Australia's national identity. PLUS: the boys cannot stop talking about Bob Dylan!

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Krystal and Saagar talk about Ukraine war escalation, White House Correspondents' Dinner cringe, stock market and economic outlook, Elon vs medical establishment, CNN's brief moment of reflection, Amazon union vote, Biden's new 'disinformation' board, student debt cancellation, and an in depth exploration of the economy with Prof. Richard Wolff!

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Krystal and Saagar talk about Amazon subsidies, Obama dropped from Spotify, Teen mental health, worker history, corporate price gouging, US vs China, hearing aid monopoly, media’s Musk freakout, & More! 

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The boys discuss Elon Musk buying twitter, then turn their attention to a Vanity Fair article exploring Peter Thiel and the NEW new alt-right. Is this finally the hip new version of conservatism that will win the youth to the right, or does everyone just want cool friends in the metaverse? We get to the bottom of it.

Delta is a syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output.

Set up is as simple as copying its sample setup.

I wrote a shell script my-pager which can use both less and delta as pager,

#!/bin/bash
# @see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19408649/pipe-input-into-a-script
if [ -x "$HOME/.cargo/bin/delta" ]; then
    cat | $HOME/.cargo/bin/delta "$@"
else
    cat | less -F -X
fi

Here is my extra delta setup in ~/.gitconfig (Delta reads settings from ~/.gitconfig),

[core]
pager = ~/bin/my-pager
[interactive]
diffFilter = ~/bin/my-pager --color-only
[merge]
conflictstyle = diff3
[diff]
colorMoved = default
[delta "default"]
file-decoration-style= blue box
hunk-header-decoration-style = purple ol
[delta]
features = default
navigate = true  # use n and N to move between diff sections

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Krystal and Saagar talk about Elon Musk buying Twitter and the online reaction, Kevin McCarthy's comments about Trump, US-Saudi tensions, Kamala's latest embarrassment, Steven Donziger being free, Taylor Lorenz's lies, Bernie 2024, and the inside story of the Bernie 2020 campaign! For clarity, the originally scheduled guest Kim Kelly's segment will be posted later in the week and Ari Robin-Havt will be in today's show! Check your email for the full video show and the newsletter as well!!!

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He is not appreciated... the boys are joined by Pod About List to talk Father Stu, the new movie from Hollywood Catholic powerhouses Mark Wahlberg, Mel Gibson, and Mel Gibson's girlfriend.

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April 14, 2022 Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative on the demographics of the million people in state prisons (with a coda on the fight around cash bail in New York) • historian James Chappel, author of this article, on postliberalism, notably the reactionary Catholic law prof Adrian Vermeule (a contributing editor of the would-be left–right hybrid magazine, Compact)

Click here for the full episode, including an explosive extended interview with Scott Ritter.

Former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and Chief UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter resigned his post in protest of US war mongering.

Immediately, he was mocked by Joe Biden. And when the FBI came after him, well, as he puts it, it went something like:

So when he joined the Useful Idiots to discuss Joe Biden, he (like many of our recent guests), didn’t have much nice to say.

“The marine in me says he stinks. He went to war knowing it was a lie and his chief of staff told me he knew it was a lie. And yet he held a hearing that lied to the American people about a threat that put marines, soldiers, sailors, and airmen’s lives at risk. People died. And not just our people, Iraqis. They didn’t deserve this, but they got it.

“And the person that gave it to them? Joe Biden. He’s the President of the United States today, and I have zero use for the man. That’s about as honest as I can get.”

He details Biden’s terrible approach to the war in Ukraine and the simple steps he’d need to end the whole thing and reach peace. But of course, Biden’s gonna Biden.

And hear the extended episode where Ritter shares some explosive takes and seething views of the government whose war crimes have led to countless deaths.

Oh, and if you want to win our hearts, take advice from Scott Ritter with quotes like:

“You guys probably get far more viewers than CNN does, so you’re far more influential.” He’s right, especially after CNN+ officially shut down this week (thanks to viewers like you).

Plus, Biden’s Trumpian approach to Assange, an MSNBC pundit joins the war, and Katie and Wilson debate whether Ted Cruz meant that Mickey would be “going at it” with Pluto or with Goofy.

It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out.

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Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly, professor at Carlton College, coordinating committee member of the Black Alliance for Peace, and author of many books including the upcoming Black Scare/Red Scare, has had it with liberals pretending to care about regular people.

Biden promises to help people with student loans while prosecuting bankrupt people in courts. Obama pretended to fight for civil rights while shutting down protests in Ferguson. Kamala Harris claims to help migrants while blaming them for underlying causes and telling them not to come. Liberal media calls to aid Nazis in Ukraine while ignoring genocides in other countries.

And just this month we got the newest liberal win:

“Ketanji Brown Jackson said Bush and Rumsfeld should be tried for war crimes, but that’s easy to say in retrospect. She didn’t say Joe Biden should be tried for war crimes, or Obama, or Kamala Harris.”

And to all the people who do criticize Obama, she’s not cheering them on either.

“Obama’s an easy target now, but where were your antennas in the moment?”

The scholar goes through a history of liberal lies and war crimes and comes to the stark conclusion that “liberalism has always been amenable to fascism.”

Plus, Dr. Charisse shares her reading list of books by Black scholars, and when it comes to controversies over CRT and the 1619 Project and other issues of race, she only has one piece of advice: just read Gerald Horne.

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Due to extraordinary circumstances, there is not the typical Thursday show out today or the premium newsletter for it. Instead we have put segments together for a Thursday mini show! In the show, Krystal and Saagar talk about the Crypto billionaires becoming political players, media attacks on Jon Stewart, Trump endorsing JD Vance in Ohio, a Congressman revealing DC corruption, Sen. Dianne Feinstein's mental decline, and Kyle Kulinski the attacks towards Noam Chomsky!

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Ever since I read Abo-abo’s post on using wgrep to edit multiple files, I’ve been a huge fan of using grep to search for some regular expression in multiple file, write enable the results buffer with wgrep, make changes to the results, and save those changes back to the original files. Although there are multiple workflows to accomplish this. they all involve using one of the grep commands to search for the regexp in multiple files, modifying the grep results, and then saving the results back to the files. This is an extraordinarily powerful technique that’s easy to generalize.

Tony Aldon has a post that offers another variation on the theme. It’s basically the same except that he uses rg.el to perform the grep duties. It’s very similar to what I do except that I use counsel-rg (part of the ivy swiper package) to do the searching.

Regardless of the details, the grep/wgrep paradigm is a powerful one and definitely worth knowing. It can make a complex refactoring utterly simple. The takeaway from all the posts on the matter is that you can use whatever flavor of grep you like and just write enable the grep results buffer to make changes that are reflected back to the original files.

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches.

We just noticed it happens to be a midterms year, so your favorite presidential podcasting duo of Chris and Matt have teamed back up to relaunch our beltway insider series. We’re joined by campaign reporter extraordinaire Dave Weigel to break down the key races to watch, track the trends to follow, and generally put drills to our temples as we attempt to once again engage in American Electoral Politics.

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The 1969 documentary WHAT'S LEFT? captures the Canadian left (and more specifically, Canada's New Democratic Party) being pulled in two directions: by an emerging, student-led generation of radical activists, and an older political class that has either grown pragmatic or complacent depending on who you ask. We discuss the history of the Canadian left, and what has both changed and remained the same in the 50+ years since the film. PLUS: We catch an acute case of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them fever!!!

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Derek Taylor over at DistroTube has a nice video up on ERC, the builtin Emacs IRC chat client. IRC is, of course, invisible to most of the general public and maybe even some of the younger nerds. It’s a very old chat protocol that predates the Web and was popular back when Usenet was still an important way of sharing information. It’s sort of like the old Unix talk application but it’s run on a remote server and supports multiple people.

The #Emacs channel, for example is a place where Emacs users and developers can hang out, ask questions, and discuss matter important to the community. Sort of like Twitter but without the crazy people.

Taylor first gives a demonstration of vanilla ERC without any configuration. It’s surprisingly useful that way and probably more than adequate for occasional users. Then he goes over his, fairly minimal, configuration and shows the difference it makes in a session.

Most of his configuration just involves setting up some useful defaults—such as his nickname, IRC server, and the like—to make signing onto a session a bit simpler. It’s probably easier for new users to simply fire up ERC without worrying about configuration. The configuration can come later when they decide to become regular users.

The video is 14 minutes, 51 seconds so it should be relatively easy to fit in. If you’ve been curious about IRC and are an Emacs user, Taylor’s video is an excellent way to learn enough to try it out.

Update [2022-04-16 Sat 17:45]: pubic → public

Tracking Emacs development is always nice, because I get to explore new things as soon as they are made available. Yesterday Lars Ingebrigtsen introduced a new command: restart-emacs.

Let’s C-h f restart-emacs RET to check what we are dealing with:

Kill the current Emacs process and start a new one. This goes through the same shutdown procedure as ‘save-buffers-kill-emacs’, but instead of killing Emacs and exiting, it re-executes Emacs (using the same command line arguments as the running Emacs).

It sounds useful, doesn’t it? So I quickly devised a new command to let me decide whether I want to quit Emacs or re-launch it:

(defun mu-quit-or-restart (&optional restart)
  "Quit Emacs or restart it with RESTART."
  (interactive "P")
  (if restart
      (restart-emacs)
    (save-buffers-kill-terminal t)))
(keymap-global-set "C-x C-c" #'mu-quit-or-restart)

This little command should be obvious: C-x C-c does the usually killing, whereas C-u C-x C-c re-executes Emacs. This will come in handy when I upgrade packages, because I tend to restart Emacs after that and being able to do it quickly is a great thing indeed.

Note that keymap-global-set may not be available if you are not following the Emacs master branch. Rely on global-set-key in that case.

Doug speaks with Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative about the demographics of the million people in state prisons and the fight around cash bail in New York. Plus, Doug talks to historian James Chappel about his recent article "Inside the Postliberal Mind" which reviews a new book by reactionary Catholic law professor Adrian Vermeule.

Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html

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