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12 votes
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US President Donald Trump's executive order isn't only about Twitter; it's also attempting to ensure that Facebook won't change their own approach in the lead-up to the election
10 votes -
Virus sparks round-the-clock rush to fill US gold vaults
4 votes -
Software bug in Bombardier airliner made planes turn the wrong way
6 votes -
Spain approves 462 euro monthly minimum income for the poorest
10 votes -
SpaceX Starship prototype SN4 destroyed in spectacular fashion after static-fire test
9 votes -
How 1960s black protests moved elites, public opinion and voting
@owasow: For 15 years, I've been studying 1960s civil rights protests with particular attention to how nonviolent and violent actions by activists & police influence media, elites, public opinion & voters. I'm thrilled some of that work was published last week. 1/ https://t.co/zzvvPTcgoP
5 votes -
What casual games are like for someone who doesn't play video games
6 votes -
Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for 'glorifying violence'
20 votes -
Seventy-five things white people can do for racial justice
11 votes -
President Donald Trump said he would end Hong Kong’s special relationship with the US and withdraw from the World Health Organization
9 votes -
New analysis suggests that assumptions about the source of early cases in Washington state might have been wrong, but the resulting reaction may have prevented a more severe outbreak
4 votes -
Internal fighting among gun owners has led to one of the dumbest memes of all time
20 votes -
Minneapolis ex-officer who knelt on George Floyd's neck is in custody and faces charges of third-degree murder and manslaughter
34 votes -
Software Development as Advanced Damage Control
8 votes -
Factorio - The 1.0 Plan - Release date is now August 14 (Five weeks earlier than originally announced)
8 votes -
What do you think is the next big technological breakthrough?
Consumer, environmental, enterprise tech, etc.
37 votes -
How SpaceX and NASA keeps astronauts safe during launch
5 votes -
What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
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One of the first California counties to reopen is closing again - Lassen County, pop. 30,000, had no cases of COVID and reopened in early May. It now has four cases
14 votes -
$100B plan submitted for massive remake and expansion of National Science Foundation
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What did you do this week?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
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How conspiracy theories fueled the US civil war
6 votes -
World of Warcraft: The Corrupted Blood incident
12 votes -
“Core Web Vitals” replaces AMP as requirement for Top Stories module
16 votes -
Philip Manshaus's trial raises important questions about the role of freedom of speech in enabling far-right extremism
5 votes -
US court grants permission to recover Marconi telegraph from Titanic wreckage—but NOAA is fiercely opposed to the controversial salvage mission
6 votes -
New data indicates the Mississippi Delta is on borrowed time
7 votes -
The design of the “Incalculable Loss” front page of The New York Times for Memorial Day, 2020
14 votes -
Sweden football coach Janne Andersson has signed a contract extension through to UEFA Euro 2024
6 votes -
Rocket Lab to resume launches in June
6 votes -
South Korea re-imposes some coronavirus restrictions after spike in new cases
8 votes -
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A Changing (1964)
10 votes -
Coronavirus patients flood hospitals in Indonesia's second-largest city
5 votes -
GPT-3: Language models are few-shot learners
9 votes -
The Karen in Chief
9 votes -
Alt-right homophobes are using 4chan to plan a terrifying cyber attack on the LGBT+ community during Pride month
15 votes -
The decline and fall of the spectacle-commodity economy
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After one week with no new cases, New Zealand down to 1 active COVID-19 case, as mass gathering limit increases to 100 people
14 votes -
African authorities conduct manhunts after hundreds flee quarantine centres in Zimbabwe and Malawi
6 votes -
macOS 10.15.5 has a trivial bug or a ‘reprehensible’ security decision
7 votes -
The success of nonviolent civil resistance | Erica Chenoweth
2 votes -
Now is a great time to start reading Gunnerkrigg Court
5 votes -
Australia's High Court decides 'Palace letters' written during the Whitlam dismissal can be accessed by historian Jenny Hocking
6 votes -
To deliver ‘The Simpsons’ in 4:3 aspect ratio, Disney+ had to rearchitect its content-delivery system
12 votes -
Regrinding coffee - A surprising result
9 votes -
SpaceX overcame never-before-seen parachute deploy and thruster problems during Crew Dragon development
8 votes -
Underwater aircraft carriers: Imperial Japan’s secret weapon
6 votes -
"Superspreaders": A small percentage of people may be responsible for a large number of COVID-19 infections
10 votes -
Weather scrubs SpaceX commercial crew launch, Demo-2
4 votes