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The Dangers of California’s Legislation to Censor 3D Printing California’s bill, AB 2047, will not only mandate censorware on all 3D printers; it will also criminalize the use of open-source alternatives. Repeating the mistakes of DRM won’t make anyone safer,

Compared to other 3D printer laws proposed this year, California’s is the most troubling. It criminalizes open source, reduces consumer choice, and creates a new bureaucratic burden. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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Amazon upsets ebook lovers by ending support for old Kindle devices Up to 2m e-readers made before 2013 will no longer be able to download new titles

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Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice are having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers

You might be feeling like everything is terrible. That's because it is. 🐧🦭
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Makeship New Launch Fuzzy the Channel Island Fox and image of Fuzzy the plush

Makeship New Launch Fuzzy the Channel Island Fox and image of Fuzzy the plush

Once she's gone, she's gone. Today is the last day to order the adorable, iconic, and incredibly fuzzy memento of the 84th World Science Fiction Convention, Fuzzy the Fox, now available in plush form.

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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...

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‘It didn’t matter whose child I rescued’: parents of Iran school bombing victims describe their worst day Hours before the world learned that a US missile had hit Shajareh Tayyebeh school, parents were already searching the rubble for their sons and daughters. In this exclusive report, four families descr...

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Exclusive: Rape calls at ICE detention center aren't investigated by San Diego sheriff's officecenter The warden at an immigrant detention center in San Diego County has authority to decide how to investigate rape reports there under an agreement with the local sheriff's office.

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Four portraits of Minnesota residents inside and outside their homes. From left to right: A woman in a hijab, an older woman wearing a red whistle, an elderly couple in winter coats standing in the snow, and a woman wearing a buttoned-up cardigan and dark blue jeans.

Four portraits of Minnesota residents inside and outside their homes. From left to right: A woman in a hijab, an older woman wearing a red whistle, an elderly couple in winter coats standing in the snow, and a woman wearing a buttoned-up cardigan and dark blue jeans.

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis.

My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives?

So I picked up my camera 👇

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AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

My latest:

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Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data.

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If you actually want to stop people from overdosing in carceral facilities then simply stop arresting people for drug use, and provide actual, evidence-based treatment for any inmates who use drugs. It’s literally the bare minimum. How is taking away the right to receive mail a better solution?

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Trump is forcing coal plants to stay open. It could cost customers billions. • Source New Mexico In an unprecedented use of federal authority, President Donald Trump’s administration has invoked emergency powers to force a series of retiring coal plants to stay open.

Trump declared an energy shortage emergency, but at the same time he blocks new renewable energy projects: It doesn’t make sense.

New Mexico has over 300 days of sunshine and vast wind resources. I’ll make our state an energy leader.

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Do you sing your pet a different song at breakfast and dinner, or do you just use the same song for both meals?

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43 Years Ago, Scientists Dropped Gophers Onto a Volcano. Today, They’re Tiny Heroes. It started as a go-for-broke experiment, but it wound up saving an ecosystem.

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How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.

Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes.

Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program.

(Published Dec. 2024)

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1/ What’s the price of a 1% drop in MMR vaccination rates?

According to a new report by the Common Health Coalition, it’s 17,000+ measles cases, 4,000 hospitalizations, 36 preventable deaths… and a $1.5 billion annual price tag.

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How an early LA librarian helped revolutionize the library experience L.A. city librarian Everett Perry’s progressive ideas about books in the early 1900s can still be felt in your library experience today.

LAPL is great, and I love learning about its history.

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Colbert accuses Trump administration of censorship after CBS pulls interview Host says lawyers barred him from discussing decision to drop Texas Democrat segment amid FCC rules scrutiny

“I think that Donald Trump is worried that we’re about to flip Texas,” he said. “This is the party that ran against cancel culture, and now they’re trying to control what we watch, what we say, what we read,” www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
 
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
 
Not one dime for this cruelty.

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Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

Scoop: The NIH infectious-diseases institute (NIAID) will soon scrub “pandemic preparedness” and “biodefense” from its web pages, according to e-mails I obtained.

The directive is the start of a broader shake-up at NIAID, which has long been attacked by Republicans.

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Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE | TechCrunch The tech giant handed over the personal information of a journalist and student who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. This is the latest example of ICE using its controversial subpoena powers to target people critical of the Trump administration.

The tech giant handed over the personal information of a journalist and student who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. This is the latest example of ICE using its controversial subpoena powers to target people critical of the Trump administration.

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Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show highlighted Puerto Rico's power grid. Here's why Bad Bunny performed part of the Super Bowl halftime show from a powerline set, drawing attention to the problem of widespread blackouts in Puerto Rico

Bad Bunny performed part of the Super Bowl halftime show from a powerline set, drawing attention to the problem of widespread blackouts in Puerto Rico

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If I've sent you a one word reply that ended in a "!", I probably accepted the stupid suggested reply, because I'm not really a ! person, or even a suggested reply person, but I am a lazy person... Unless the reply was "Fuck!", then that was probably all me.

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🧵The biggest cheerleaders for Trump’s nominee for Fed Chair? Big Bank CEOs.

Why? Follow the money – Warsh helped orchestrate the Wall Street bailouts back in 2008 while people were losing jobs left and right.

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UPDATE: California Indian Nations College earns full accreditation The latest education news updates from EdSource.

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"There's Nothing I Enjoy More Than Acting In The Theater" - Ian McKellen EXTENDED INTERVIEW
"There's Nothing I Enjoy More Than Acting In The Theater" - Ian McKellen EXTENDED INTERVIEW YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Ian McKellen actually originated this role, which is a really cool piece of trivia, plus we get to see him do an amazing Shakespeare monologue. 🎭🧊

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Women combat veterans want Pete Hegseth to know that they already passed the test The defense secretary ordered a review of women in combat roles, claiming standards were compromised — but the requirements for women and men in combat roles are identical.

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Layoffs just hit their highest start-of-year total since January 2009 — the height of the Great Recession — according to data tracking firm Challenger.

Meanwhile, CEO pay and corporate profits continue to hit record highs.

Does anyone still believe that trickle-down tax cuts create jobs?

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the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

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