Cory Doctorow: Tech-like apps can obfuscate what’s really going on, sloshing a coat of complexity over a business that allows its owners to claim that they’re not breaking the law
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What it takes to be a revolutionary war enactor
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Beloved around the world, the Moomins are coming to the big screen – animated feature to be written and directed by Rebecca Sugar
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California passes law banning extra loud commercials on streaming services
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An interstellar comet flew past Mars, and spacecraft took pictures
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Private vs public surveillance: reflections on Edward Snowden’s personal record
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America's dumbest crop: grass
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Donny McCaslin - Tokyo Game Show (2025)
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Burbank Airport resumes flights after hours with no air traffic controllers amid government shutdown
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How America nearly forged a different path in 1916
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US Supreme Court allows order forcing Google to make app store reforms
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2025 NFL Season 🏈 Weekly Discussion Thread – Week 5
Welcome to the 2025 NFL Season Weekly Discussion Thread! 🏈 Share your thoughts on Week 5 — wins, losses, fantasy fumbles, predictions, or anything else football-related.
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How the Golden Gate Bridge works
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‘Marty Supreme’ was NYFF’s surprise screening, earns raves. Timothée Chalamet gives ‘career-best work’.
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OpenAI’s H1 2025: $4.3b in income, $13.5b in loss
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Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia (2025)
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Bluesky melts down over Jesse Singal
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As Bari Weiss arrives at CBS News, staffers hold their breath for what comes next
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Los Angeles Metro's K Line extension to Torrance
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‘Taylor Swift: Showgirl’ at $33m an awesome anomaly for album pic launch; Dwayne Johnson sees lowest opening ever with ‘The Smashing Machine’ at $6m
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Faetooth - Labyrinthine (2025)
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Jalen Ngonda - Anyone in Love (2024)
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Apple pulls ICEBlock from the App Store
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How Rockefeller and his partners built Standard Oil
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Sean Combs sentenced to more than four years in prison after apologizing for ‘sick’ conduct
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Mike Jittlov's Animato: Fashionation / Time Tripper / The Wizard of Speed And Time (1977 - 1979)
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Taylor Swift – Eldest Daughter (2025)
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Wall Street’s big bets on AI are driving interest in huge parking lots
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US solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after
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EA is reportedly about to be sold in a record-setting $50 billion buyout to an investor group that includes private equity and Saudi Arabia
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Harvard physicists working to develop game-changing tech demonstrate 3,000 quantum-bit system capable of continuous operation
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US State Attorneys Generals defend trans Americans in letter to Donald Trump’s Federal Trade Commission
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Not every NHL legend was drafted to be a star – Henrik Zetterberg almost wasn't drafted at all
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DoorDash’s new delivery robot rolls out into the big, cruel world
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McDonald’s redraws battle lines on subminimum wage
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ZR1, GTD, and America’s new Nürburgring war: Ford and Chevy set near-identical lap times with very different cars; we drove both
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Jet Lag played 'Magic: The Gathering' in the real world
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Clipse, John Legend, Voices of Fire, Pusha T, Malice - The Birds Don't Sing (2025)
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2025 NFL Season 🏈 Weekly Discussion Thread – Week 4
Welcome to the 2025 NFL Season Weekly Discussion Thread! 🏈 Share your thoughts on Week 4 — wins, losses, fantasy fumbles, predictions, or anything else football-related. Sorry for the delay...
Welcome to the 2025 NFL Season Weekly Discussion Thread! 🏈
Share your thoughts on Week 4 — wins, losses, fantasy fumbles, predictions, or anything else football-related. Sorry for the delay posting today, I was away from a computer all day and just now have time to post this :)
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Berkeley engineers develop customizable, 3D-printed robot for tech newbies
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Grape glut: Too much wine across the world leaves tons of US grapes rotting this crush season
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California attorney fined for using twenty-one AI hallucinated cases in court filing
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New Jersey theme park puts animatronic dinosaurs on Facebook Marketplace as it shuts down
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Do Red Dead Redemption 2's power lines connect to anything?
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‘One Battle After Another’ at $22m+ reps record debut for Paul Thomas Anderson; Leonardo DiCaprio’s eleventh movie to open to $20m+
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Voices of the Manhattan Project: Peggy Bowditch’s interview
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Europe made a late switch to its Saturday afternoon lineup at the Ryder Cup because Viktor Hovland had neck pain – injury has been bothering golfer on and off for a couple of months
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Jimmy Kimmel returns from suspension, late-night show reaches ratings high
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What it’s like to have your period in prison
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Economic nihilism, online communities, and gamer culture with Brandon "Atrioc" Ewing
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