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17 votes
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Is Asia’s cosmopolitan elite so entrenched with American ‘global culture’ that it fails to see problems at home?
6 votes -
"The protests began in the small province of Minnesota" - Thai Enquirer explain colonialist reporting in a few paragraphs
23 votes -
Higher ed: Enough already
17 votes -
Ballpark peanuts, a classic summer pleasure, have been benched
7 votes -
Higher restaurant spending in a US state predict a rise in new infections there three weeks later
15 votes -
NASA expects to cover JWST launch slip with budget reserves
8 votes -
Black Sheep Brass Band - We Are Sheep (2020)
5 votes -
Weekly thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests - week of June 22
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
14 votes -
SpaceX scrubs Friday launch attempt of its tenth batch of Starlink satellites—the first launch that will see all satellites equipped with visors to reduce ground brightness
10 votes -
'The Simpsons' producers will 'no longer have white actors voice non-white characters'
9 votes -
California Air Resources Board passes law banning the sale of heavy diesel trucks and vans completely by 2045
11 votes -
Plastic rain: More than 1,000 tons of microplastic rain onto western US every year, study estimates
7 votes -
Family buys all of a Chicago paletero’s ice pops on Father’s Day, collects nearly $40K for him: ‘He refuses to stop working’
4 votes -
You want a Confederate monument? My body is a Confederate monument (sexual assault trigger warning)
20 votes -
Will places that depend on tourism be more open to high tech, given that remote work is more accepted?
5 votes -
Watch a ten-year time lapse of Sun from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory
6 votes -
Wrongfully accused by an algorithm
7 votes -
Terrible, dangerous EARN IT act set to move forward in the senate; attack on both encryption and free speech online
27 votes -
Judges gone wild! The Florida Supreme Court scandals of the 1970s make today’s political circus look tame by comparison
6 votes -
NASA names headquarters after ‘hidden figure’ Mary W. Jackson
4 votes -
How the Philadelphia police tear-gassed a group of trapped protesters
9 votes -
White House ordered National Institutes of Health to cancel coronavirus research funding, Anthony Fauci says
15 votes -
EU digs in on digital tax plan, after US quits talks
5 votes -
How the USA’s massive failure to close the digital divide got exposed by the coronavirus
5 votes -
HBO is making Watchmen completely free this weekend
14 votes -
Cards Against Humanity statement
12 votes -
The NFL is suddenly worried about Black lives
7 votes -
US Army awards pocket-sized drones $20.6 million contract
13 votes -
Uber, Lyft algorithms charged users more for trips to non-white US neighborhoods: study
7 votes -
Scott Alexander has deleted his Slate Star Codex blog due to the New York Times planning to reveal his real name in an article
48 votes -
European Union may bar American travelers as it reopens borders, citing failures on virus
15 votes -
Hamilton is censored on Disney Plus; Lin-Manuel Miranda gives two fucks
11 votes -
The Boston Public Library needs help transcribing anti-slavery letters
5 votes -
Daily thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests - June 22
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most...
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
13 votes -
Deus Ex at twenty: The oral history of a pivotal PC game
11 votes -
Andrew Yang is pushing Big Tech to pay users for data
18 votes -
Virus cases skyrocketing among Latinos in the USA
10 votes -
The coming chip wars
9 votes -
America needs a ministry of (actual) truth
10 votes -
Daily thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests - June 21
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most...
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
6 votes -
I just became a US citizen today
I took the Oath to become an American citizen today, after having lived in the U.S. since I was a little girl. I'm glad to have finally done this, but I'm wondering on what to do next. Any and all...
I took the Oath to become an American citizen today, after having lived in the U.S. since I was a little girl. I'm glad to have finally done this, but I'm wondering on what to do next.
Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated.
44 votes -
Voguing for our lives. Again
3 votes -
Trump mounts campaign for more debates against Biden
10 votes -
The Grandmaster who got Twitch hooked on chess: Hikaru Nakamura is the top-ranked blitz chess player in the world—and his channel has seen a meteoric rise as he coaches streamers in the ancient game
14 votes -
Daily thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests - June 20
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This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
13 votes -
Why NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is essential despite the coronavirus pandemic
4 votes -
Iconic Prince 'Blue Angel' guitar, that was once considered lost, is sold for over $500,000
4 votes -
I don’t care if baseball ever comes back. The game has been boring for years
12 votes -
Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box office’
19 votes