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Amazon are changing the way you own your Kindle books - you have 10 days to react
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It is Elon Musk who is now running the United States. Not Donald Trump
An unelected billionaire is running the state through a shadow government without formal checks – the constitutional order, now, is largely window dressing
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I'd Rather Be a Pig Than a Fascist
A Meditation on Porco Rosso
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The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.
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86 Stories of Progress from 2024
Not everything that happened this year was terrible.
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In fear of more user protests, Reddit announces controversial policy change
Moderators now need Reddit's permission to turn subreddits private, NSFW.
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Theaters of War (2022)
How the Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood is a documentary based on the book National Security Cinema and the Spy Culture website. Sourced from thousands of pages of documents obtained by investigative journalist Tom Secker using the Freedom of Information Act, it reveals how the US military lie to and manipulate people using Hollywood films and TV. From rewriting scripts to pitching ideas to planting military technologies into entertainment products, this is a revelatory tale about propaganda in places you might not expect to find it.
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Several of the GOP’s Most Fiercely Anti-Trans Candidates Lost Their Elections
In spite of a Trump win, state and local elections showed mixed results for those who ran on bigotry.
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Why top internet sleuths say they won't help find the UnitedHealthcare CEO killer
TikTok users who would normally leap at the chance to identify an alleged criminal are standing down during the manhunt for the killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
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There’s No Denying It Anymore: Trump Is Not a Fluke—He’s America
The United States chose Donald Trump in all his ugliness and cruelty, and the country will get what it deserves.
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New York Times tech union goes on strike one day before election
Strike called after negotiations between the guild and Times management failed to yield a contract agreement
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An Irish banjo virtuoso's guide to the best traditional Irish music experiences in Galway
Galway native Enda Scahill shares his favorite haunts for trad music, from packed sessions at Tig Cóilí in the Latin Quarter to intimate clambake sets at Tigh Ned on Inisheer.
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The US Empire Isn’t A Government That Runs Nonstop Wars, It’s A Nonstop War That Runs A Government
It clears up a lot of confusion when you understand that the US empire is not a national government which happens to run nonstop military operations, it’s a nonstop military operation that happens …
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Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source
The United States remains reluctant to work with open source, but European countries are bolder.
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Oil Companies Are Still Determined to Burn the Planet Down
The big energy firms have largely stopped denying the scientific consensus about climate change. But behind their rhetoric about “net zero emissions,” there’s an unflinching determination to keep profiting from oil and gas, whatever the cost.
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Do You OWN Your Creative Works? ADOBE Says NO
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State of Tennessee tells U.S. Navy veteran he's not an American citizen and cancels his driver's license
The state of Tennessee says a Navy veteran who has lived in the U.S. for more than seven decades is not an American citizen and has canceled his driver's license.
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Israeli inquest into alleged abuse of Palestinian detainees sparks far-right fury
Arrest of IDF reservists suspected of abuse prompts confrontation at notorious detention base and outcry from MPs
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Pro-Israel Group Censoring Social Media Led by Former Israeli Intelligence Officers
CyberWell has pushed to censor accurate social media posts about IDF and Hamas conduct in the Gaza war by claiming such speech is tantamount to Holocaust denial
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The MTV News website is gone
Over 20 years of history is gone.