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October 7, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."
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October 6, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."
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Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data.
We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district.
Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):
We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district.
Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):
October 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data.
We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district.
Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):
We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district.
Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):
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i told my landlord they're releasing the amelia earhart files and he lowered my rent 50%. i told my grocer and he gave me a free nectarine. i told my doctor and he said i didn't have to pay for the visit. try it. you never know who out there has been waiting for this moment.
September 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
i told my landlord they're releasing the amelia earhart files and he lowered my rent 50%. i told my grocer and he gave me a free nectarine. i told my doctor and he said i didn't have to pay for the visit. try it. you never know who out there has been waiting for this moment.
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When governments have cowed the press and flooded social platforms with viral propaganda, Wikipedia has become the next target, and a more stubborn one.
Read more: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Read more: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
September 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
When governments have cowed the press and flooded social platforms with viral propaganda, Wikipedia has become the next target, and a more stubborn one.
Read more: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Read more: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
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Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]
September 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]
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Massive Attack Turns Concert into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment
#HackerNews
<a href="https://www.gadgetreview.com/massive-attack-turns-concert-into-facial-recognition-surveillance-experiment" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://www.gadgetreview.com/massive-attack-turns-concert-into-facial-recognition-surveillance-experiment
#HackerNews
<a href="https://www.gadgetreview.com/massive-attack-turns-concert-into-facial-recognition-surveillance-experiment" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://www.gadgetreview.com/massive-attack-turns-concert-into-facial-recognition-surveillance-experiment
September 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Massive Attack Turns Concert into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment
#HackerNews
<a href="https://www.gadgetreview.com/massive-attack-turns-concert-into-facial-recognition-surveillance-experiment" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://www.gadgetreview.com/massive-attack-turns-concert-into-facial-recognition-surveillance-experiment
#HackerNews
<a href="https://www.gadgetreview.com/massive-attack-turns-concert-into-facial-recognition-surveillance-experiment" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://www.gadgetreview.com/massive-attack-turns-concert-into-facial-recognition-surveillance-experiment
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When you arrive home 2 hours late..
June 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
When you arrive home 2 hours late..
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ChatGPT got 780m visitors in April. That is dominant, and a business and culture changing level.
May 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
ChatGPT got 780m visitors in April. That is dominant, and a business and culture changing level.
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IOWA: “It is a complete pleasure to hear somebody speak in complete sentences.”
*Pete Buttigieg gets a rousing Ovation at the #VoteVetsTownHall* 👏🏽
*Pete Buttigieg gets a rousing Ovation at the #VoteVetsTownHall* 👏🏽
May 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
IOWA: “It is a complete pleasure to hear somebody speak in complete sentences.”
*Pete Buttigieg gets a rousing Ovation at the #VoteVetsTownHall* 👏🏽
*Pete Buttigieg gets a rousing Ovation at the #VoteVetsTownHall* 👏🏽
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📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
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At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
April 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
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[bluesky timeline]
me: [chanting] blogs, blogs-
other users: blogs, BLOGS
bluesky staff: [pounding their computers] BLOGS, BLOGS, BLOGS!
me: [chanting] blogs, blogs-
other users: blogs, BLOGS
bluesky staff: [pounding their computers] BLOGS, BLOGS, BLOGS!
the internet starting to re-fragment into having Actual Websites again as centralized social media self-destructs is unironically one of the absolute best, most positive things happening rn
March 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
[bluesky timeline]
me: [chanting] blogs, blogs-
other users: blogs, BLOGS
bluesky staff: [pounding their computers] BLOGS, BLOGS, BLOGS!
me: [chanting] blogs, blogs-
other users: blogs, BLOGS
bluesky staff: [pounding their computers] BLOGS, BLOGS, BLOGS!
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I'd quite like to go to bed but then I wouldn't be looking at the internet and being miserable about the world
March 28, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I'd quite like to go to bed but then I wouldn't be looking at the internet and being miserable about the world
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Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.
Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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March 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.
Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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Find out how your community may be impacted.
Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
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Ivan Sigal writes that many of us, caught in the amnesia of our endless scrolling, seem to have forgotten that we control our attention. But if enough of us act, he says, we will create the demand signal that builders of technologies that privilege human agency need to validate their work.
To Build a Better Democracy, Start by Rethinking Your Relationship to the Internet | TechPolicy.Press
Ivan Sigal writes that many of us, caught in the amnesia of our endless scrolling, seem to have forgotten that we control our attention.
www.techpolicy.press
March 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Ivan Sigal writes that many of us, caught in the amnesia of our endless scrolling, seem to have forgotten that we control our attention. But if enough of us act, he says, we will create the demand signal that builders of technologies that privilege human agency need to validate their work.
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Experts ‘amazed’ at survival of miniature dachshund on the run on South Australian island for more than a year
Experts ‘amazed’ at survival of miniature dachshund on the run on South Australian island for more than a year
Valerie escaped from her pen when her owners were holidaying on Kangaroo Island, which is famous for its native wildlife
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A miniature dachshund that went missing 16 months ago on Kangaroo Island in South Australia has been spotted alive and well – but continues to evade a team of volunteer searchers and wildlife experts who say they are “amazed” the dog survived for so long in the wild.
Valerie weighed less than 4kg, had a pink collar and “would never leave [the] side” of her owner, Georgia Gardner, before she went missing in November 2023.
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March 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Experts ‘amazed’ at survival of miniature dachshund on the run on South Australian island for more than a year
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This is more important than you realize. Bluesky doesn’t downgrade links. Which means news sites will get more traffic from here than other sites.
Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.
Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.
Bluesky says it is now sending referral traffic through its "go" subdomain to make it easier for publishers to track the traffic coming from the social network (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
March 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
This is more important than you realize. Bluesky doesn’t downgrade links. Which means news sites will get more traffic from here than other sites.
Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.
Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.
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Google search, Play Store falling foul of Digital Markets Act rules, says EU
Google search, Play Store falling foul of Digital Markets Act rules, says EU
Google Search and its Play Store mobile app marketplace are suspected of breaching of the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), per preliminary findings announced Wednesday by Commission enforcers of the bloc’s flagship market contestability law who…
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March 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Google search, Play Store falling foul of Digital Markets Act rules, says EU
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The Internet Archive is an essential tool for cataloging historical documents, not just preserving archived internet pages. I and other members of the antique tool community rely on it for the digital preservation and sharing of documents that would otherwise be very difficult for people to access.
🚨 What happens if the Internet Archive goes dark?
From KQED's new podcast, Close All Tabs, digital librarian Brewster Kahle talks about the challenges of preserving digital history, and why the Internet Archive’s mission matters more than ever.
🎧 Listen now ⤵️
www.kqed.org/news/1203198...
From KQED's new podcast, Close All Tabs, digital librarian Brewster Kahle talks about the challenges of preserving digital history, and why the Internet Archive’s mission matters more than ever.
🎧 Listen now ⤵️
www.kqed.org/news/1203198...
What Happens if the Internet Archive Goes Dark? | KQED
For decades, the Internet Archive has preserved our digital history. Lately, journalists and ordinary citizens have been turning to it more than ever, as the Trump administration undertakes an ideolog...
www.kqed.org
March 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The Internet Archive is an essential tool for cataloging historical documents, not just preserving archived internet pages. I and other members of the antique tool community rely on it for the digital preservation and sharing of documents that would otherwise be very difficult for people to access.
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Alternative rock could be run so much more efficiently. How necessary are a singer, guitar player, bass player and drummer. You could get rid of all of those positions and replace them with one guy who just shows up at the venue and hawks crypto
March 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Alternative rock could be run so much more efficiently. How necessary are a singer, guitar player, bass player and drummer. You could get rid of all of those positions and replace them with one guy who just shows up at the venue and hawks crypto
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🔗 Websites vanish. Links break. But knowledge can live on with your help. Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to archive webpages that are important to you. 🕰️ 💾
📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save
📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save
March 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Veterans are marching across the nation tomorrow, March 14th, to protect their rights.
We must help protect them as they protect us.
Call your Democratic senators and ask them not to cave to the MAGAs demands.
They work for us. Make your voices heard!
Find their number on the thread below.
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We must help protect them as they protect us.
Call your Democratic senators and ask them not to cave to the MAGAs demands.
They work for us. Make your voices heard!
Find their number on the thread below.
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March 14, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Veterans are marching across the nation tomorrow, March 14th, to protect their rights.
We must help protect them as they protect us.
Call your Democratic senators and ask them not to cave to the MAGAs demands.
They work for us. Make your voices heard!
Find their number on the thread below.
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We must help protect them as they protect us.
Call your Democratic senators and ask them not to cave to the MAGAs demands.
They work for us. Make your voices heard!
Find their number on the thread below.
1/2