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Новости за 04.12.2024

The New Republic 

The Romanticized Squalor of Queer

The Beat writer William S. Burroughs began his second book, Queer, just months after killing his wife, Joan Vollmer, at a party above the Bounty Bar in Mexico City. Though he completed the novella in 1953, Queer was not released to the public until 1985, after Burroughs’s new agent, Andrew Wylie, had secured a $200,000 deal with Viking-Penguin for the rights to his back catalog, which kept him afloat until his death, at 83, in 1997.

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The New Republic 

Somehow It’s Still Legal to Pay Disabled People Less Than Minimum Wage

Joe Biden reminded us he was still president on Sunday by pardoning his son, Hunter. This was, as TNR’s Matt Ford rightly pointed out, “a quintessentially corrupt act.” But I don’t agree with Ford’s more sweeping conclusion that Biden’s “has become a failed presidency.” On economic policy, the Biden administration was successful, even transformative, as Nicholas Lemann noted in The New Yorker a week before Election Day. And on Tuesday Biden reminded us that he’s still guiding economic policy wisely... Читать дальше...

The New Republic 

Republicans’ War on ESG Has Reached New Heights of Stupidity

Eleven Republican state attorneys general, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, are suing three of the world’s biggest asset managers. Blackrock, State Street, and Vanguard, Paxton’s office claims, are engaged in a “conspiracy” to “artificially constrict the market for coal through anticompetitive trade practices.” The Republicans’ case seems to hinge on the fact that these three financial firms were at one point members of Climate Action 100+ and Net-Zero Asset Managers, “investor-led” initiatives... Читать дальше...

The Verge 

Apple Arcade’s best exclusive game is finally on console and PC

Image: Square Enix

Fantasian was an easy game to recommend when it launched in 2021. Developed by Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Mistwalker studio, Fantasian was an approachable old-school roleplaying game that had a lot of clever ideas, along with an adorable aesthetic thanks to its world made out of hand-crafted dioramas. There was just one problem: it was exclusive to Apple Arcade, so anyone who wasn’t a subscriber missed out. Now, that has finally changed as the game launches this week on PC... Читать дальше...

Nation News.com 

$324.3m gap

Government needs $324.3 million to meet the spending it has budgeted for the second half of its fiscal year ending March 31. The Mid-Year Review Report prepared by the Ministry of Finance says this funding “remains unidentified” and could “worsen in the event of lower than expected revenue or elevated spending”. The report, which Minister […]

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Kotaku.com 

How Long Is Fantasian Neo Dimension?

Role-playing games tend to rank among the most emotionally-charged video games out there, with many franchises in the genre becoming popular largely based on their deeply-realized characters, heart-stopping soundtracks, and recurring themes that can invoke a wide range of emotions, such as a sense of nostalgia. It’s…

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