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+26Writers’ union urges investigation into Paramount move to cancel Colbert show
Writers Guild of America requests New York attorney general investigate ‘potential wrongdoing’ after shock cancellation
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+31Amazon are changing the way you own your Kindle books - you have 10 days to react
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+8The Doctor Who Tricked The Nazis
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+39The 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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+44In 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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+22It 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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+20I'd Rather Be a Pig Than a Fascist
A Meditation on Porco Rosso
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+44The 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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+45Do You OWN Your Creative Works? ADOBE Says NO
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+24Several 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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+38Switzerland 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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+23Theaters 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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+39State 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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+38The MTV News website is gone
Over 20 years of history is gone.
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+35Pro-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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+1986 Stories of Progress from 2024
Not everything that happened this year was terrible.
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+41CEOs Could Easily Be Replaced With AI, Experts Argue
Impartial, data driven AI models could be an appealing replacement for biased , egotistical CEOs — and cheaper, too.
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+35Running Amok
The conduct on display in Gaza is part psychological warfare, part colonial theatre, part occupation soldiers having fun, and none of it is new. By Mary Turfah
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+30Israeli 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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+35Why Doesn’t International Law Apply to the West?




















