Streaming services’ obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California
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The White House now determines which customers can access new AI models
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British cities are a game design nightmare
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Which has more Prime Ministers, Dr Who or real life?
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In the US abortion wars, new frontline is pills via telehealth
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Norway, one of the first countries to ban smartphones in schools, is now imposing a near-ban on AI in elementary schools
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Britain and Canada join Australia in banning social media for children under sixteen
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Finland's libraries are increasingly being valued not by how many books they lend, but how they help societies function
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How a Swedish king went on strike in 1768 – this moment in political history poses an interesting question: does a monarchy need a monarch?
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‘Ghost jobs’ could soon be illegal in New York
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Access to Fable and Mythos 5 cut off after US government order
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Rolls-Royce will build small nuclear power plants for Sweden in a major boost for the British engineering group's ambitions to lead the development of the nascent technology in Europe
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Sean Penn directing January 6 drama with Bradley Cooper starring as Capitol cop
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Sweden has halved its borrowing since facing financial meltdown in the 1990s, without raising taxes – and what Britain can learn from this experience
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The college scam that promised students fleeing war a new life in Finland – Finnish authorities investigating agency which offered to help Myanmar students enrol in vocational schools
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GOG apologies for emailing Nazi runes to its followers
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Polyphia - CAN YOU FEEL IT (2026)
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This restaurant stopped charging for food. And profits are up. (gifted link)
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Neomercantilism: an interview with Prof. Eric Helleiner on his book, "The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History"
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Social media has become a freak show
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What happens when financial survival becomes the artwork
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Finland tests new system to help detect threats to subsea cables before incidents happen – scores of breaches in previous years have crippled critical underwater infrastructure
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What are your personal crackpot conspiracy theories about the world right now?
I was talking with a friend about recent events that seemed eerily suspicious to me, and was wondering if all of you might have any similar experiences. (Preemptively tagging this as politics. If...
I was talking with a friend about recent events that seemed eerily suspicious to me, and was wondering if all of you might have any similar experiences.
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politics. If anything in this thread is deemed malicious or inflammatory, let me know and I'll delete the thread)72 votes -
Drawbacks to Iceland having its own currency likely exceed the benefits, the country's Finance Ministry said, citing the conclusions of a government-commissioned report
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'Stop Killing Games' movement gains momentum: California Assembly passes game protection bill
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Colorado approves balcony solar, requires utilities to accept meter collars
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Public backlash after Utah county approves 62 sq miles of development sites for data center
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The US campaign to turn healthy people into Alzheimer’s patients
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‘It’s shameful’: New York’s elite lash out at Zohran Mamdani’s second-home tax
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How democratic governments came to view VPNs as circumvention software that must be restricted
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How car dealerships scam America
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Norway puts United Nations Environment Programme project funding on hold, raising fears for plastics treaty talks
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‘The odds are not in our favour’: who sets the Doomsday Clock – and what can they tell us about the future of humanity?
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Two months in, the Iran war has changed the global energy system forever
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Norway doubles down on oil and gas production – energy minister says country has a ‘responsibility’ to address shortfalls caused by wars in Ukraine and Middle East
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In a village in Norway, humans representing flora and fauna of all kinds meet to reimagine ‘nature-centric governance’
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Norway is reopening three gasfields that it shut down last century as demand from Europe for alternatives to Russian and Middle Eastern supply increases
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Forget the AI apocalypse. Memes have already nuked our culture.
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US landlords want to be paid for pandemic losses and hope to reach a deal with the Donald Trump administration
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Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives.
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Turbo-Culture
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Spirit Airlines shutting down after rescue talks collapse
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Jakarta’s remarkable urban transit transformation
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US National Security Agency using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist
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Europe's first complete mining-to-refinement of lithium begins operating in Syväjärvi in western Finland – the strategic resource is critical for manufacturing modern electronics
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India’s major airlines on ‘verge of closing down’ as high fuel costs sting
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NHTSA tells US Congress: advanced impaired driving detection tech isn't ready
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USA to mandate surveillance tech for new cars also determing fitness to drive by 2027
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US regulator to review Disney broadcast licences after Jimmy Kimmel joke about Melania Trump
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We must keep age verification from killing anonymity online
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