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Palantir loses lawsuit disputing story of how Swiss govt rejected its services (theguardian.com)
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"News Man Bad": A Personnel Memo from Animal, Your Editor-in-Chief (mcsweeneys.net)
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AI society simulations: Claude safest, Grok commits 180 crimes and goes extinct (fortune.com)
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Enhanced Games [with steroids]: only 1 record broken and 3 clean athletes win (theguardian.com)
2
'We don't see a robot as a threat: simply another form of presence in the world' (elpais.com)
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First Streaming Fraud Case: A Musician's Alleged $10M Scam (rollingstone.com)
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Canada court quashes bid by Alberta separatists for independence referendum (theguardian.com)
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Largest electric autonomous container ship begins commercial service (chinadaily.com.cn)
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For first time since World War II, US national debt now larger than its economy (fortune.com)
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Beijing Auto Show: more EV models in each of 17 halls than in the US (electrek.co)
2
The Watch Expert Catching Multimillion-Dollar Counterfeits (gq.com)
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New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy (newyorker.com)
3
The Catholic Priest Who Helped Write Anthropic's A.I. Ethics Code (observer.com)
7
Business group urges BC govt to reject 'unreasonable' remote work request (ctvnews.ca)
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US Supreme Court Rejects Colorado Ban on 'Conversion Therapy' for LGBTQ Minors (nytimes.com)
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California pledges to open 7% of its land and waters to Indigenous tribes (latimes.com)
3
Cannabis is not an effective treatment for common mental health conditions (theguardian.com)
6
'The cover-up is brazen': one journalist's fight to expose Ghislaine Maxwell (theguardian.com)
7
The yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan (bbc.com)
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The nostalgic winter drink dividing Germany (bbc.com)
1
'Psychological torture': Spanish tenants fight back against housing 'harassment' (theguardian.com)
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South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection (theguardian.com)
3
Italy's Secretive Food Confraternities (bbc.com)
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Bro, Enough with the Protein. You're Just Making Expensive Pee (thewalrus.ca)
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Hotels Are Getting Rid of Proper Bathroom Doors and Guests Are Revolting (wsj.com)
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[flagged] Texas A&M university is banning Plato, citing his "gender ideology" (lithub.com)
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Google moonshot spinout SandboxAQ claims an ex-exec is attempting 'extortion' (techcrunch.com)
1
Why Switzerland has no head of state (swissinfo.ch)
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Voting for Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up City Doesn't Mean I Approve of It (mcsweeneys.net)
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Luxury goods once built to last now fall apart as easily as fast fashion (cnn.com)
2
Caviar and foie gras? China is becoming a luxury food powerhouse (ft.com)
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The US govt has revoked the non-immigrant visa of Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka [video] (youtube.com)
2
Adventure can be disastrous: digital nomad families 'worldschooling' their kids (theguardian.com)
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Japanese Game co. asks applicants to draw in person to avoid generative AI fraud (automaton-media.com)
1
They built a mobile observatory to film nebulae 7,500 Light-Years Away [video] (youtube.com)
2
Lithuania More Than Halved Its Suicide Rate (reasonstobecheerful.world)
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Merriam-Webster banks on "actual intelligence" over artificial intelligence (marketplace.org)
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Austria: Pylons as sculpture for public acceptance of expanding electrification (goodgoodgood.co)
1
Hogeweyk: Amsterdam's Revolutionary Dementia Village (faroutmagazine.co.uk)
1
I, a French Jewel Thief, Refuse to Rob the Louvre Before Mid-Morning (mcsweeneys.net)
4
The Beijing courier who went viral: how Hu Anyan wrote about delivering parcels (theguardian.com)
2
Laurene Powell Jobs:Beware Philanthropists Who Want Control in Return for Giving (wsj.com)
3
Texas bans people/entities from China, Iran, Russia, Korea from buying property (theguardian.com)
1
Culinary epitaphs: Recipe on Gravestone Helps to Remember the Dearly Departed (smithsonianmag.com)
8
US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official info (theguardian.com)
1
Malala Yousafzai on growing up, getting cynical (theguardian.com)
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Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out (karenattiah.substack.com)
1
How Thomas Peterffy automated trading, made Interactive Brokers a $100B business (joincolossus.com)
2
13-year-old boy survives 90 minute flight stowed away in airplane's landing gear (cnn.com)
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Move into Maui tiny home village, two years after fires (goodgoodgood.co)
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Startup Founder Charlie Javice Sentenced to over 7 Years for Defrauding JPMorgan (wsj.com)
3
The airliner pilot who gets to fly World War Two's biggest bomber (bbc.com)
3
ChatPerson, our new RI (real intelligence) service (mcsweeneys.net)
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China is ditching the dollar, fast: Officials believe the yuan has come of age (economist.com)
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Several people fired after clampdown on speech over Charlie Kirk shooting (theguardian.com)
4
U.S. Wildfire Fighters to Mask Up After Decades-Long Ban on Smoke Protections (nytimes.com)
2
African authorities dismantle cybercrime and fraud networks, recover ~100M (interpol.int)
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Protests as Greenlandic woman's newborn taken after 'parenting competence' tests (theguardian.com)
6
Think Doing Business in India Is Hard? Try Getting a Drink After Work (wsj.com)
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African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks Africa's size (theguardian.com)
3
Spain put up wealth taxes – without chasing away the billionaires (theguardian.com)
1
The Perfect Algorithm for Finding Love? Trevor Noah Interviews Christian Rudder [video] (youtube.com)
2
Rise of ARFID, childhood disorder that shuts off the basic human instinct to eat (thecut.com)
1
A chemist/computer scientist brought self-driving laboratories to Toronto (torontolife.com)
2
Dr. Ozempic: Inside the medical discovery that revolutionized weight loss (torontolife.com)
2
The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations (mcsweeneys.net)
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[flagged] The Bleach Community Is Ready for RFK Jr. To Make Their Dreams Come True (wired.com)
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The Mysterious Billionaire Behind the OnlyFans Porn Empire (wsj.com)
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First US college declines federal science grants due to new DEI requirements (science.org)
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Copenhagen is adapting to a warmer world with rain tunnels and 'sponge parks' (npr.org)
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How a Hazelnut Spread Became a Sticking Point in Franco-Algerian Relations (newyorker.com)
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Busting the Myth That the Canadian Federal Govt Has Hurt Alberta's Oil Industry (thetyee.ca)
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I Bought a Tesla and the Previous Owner Has Been Remotely Controlling My Car (torquenews.com)
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Japanese scientists develop artificial blood compatible with all blood types (tokyoweekender.com)
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'The Internet Sucks.' Cory Doctorow Tells How to Fix It (thetyee.ca)
4
A Library in New Zealand Replaces Dewey with System Rooted in Māori Tradition (1000libraries.com)
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How A Canadian Ostrich Farm Sparked a Far-Right Crusade (thetyee.ca)
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'Garage Mahals' Are Driving Neighbors Nuts (wsj.com)
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How to buy a chicken sandwich in Shenzhen: China's $100B livestream sales sector (restofworld.org)
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The Indian company forcing Uber to change its business model (restofworld.org)
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Why weight-loss drug users are telling no one – not even their partners (theguardian.com)
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How Far Would You Go to Make a Friend? Startups Selling Treatment for Loneliness (thecut.com)
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Broken Justice: how Europe let its courts decay (ft.com)
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Flies in the evidence room: Inside Belgium's rotting Justice Palace (ft.com)
3
Vietnam's Village of Moroccan Defectors (newlinesmag.com)
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The Agonizing Task of Turning Europe's Power Back On (wired.com)
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Law students organize to give Trump-caving firms a recruitment problem (allrisenews.com)
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Ping, You've Got Whale: AI detection system alerts ships of whales in their path (biographic.com)
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Cocoa prices are rising so new chocolate firms are using alternative ingredients (bbc.com)
3
There's No Reason We Can't Be Friends Before You Are Liquefied (mcsweeneys.net)
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Kermit the Frog tapped as University of Maryland commencement speaker (theguardian.com)
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Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada (theguardian.com)
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In some parts of the US, the clack of typewriter keys can still be heard (bbc.com)
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The Tech CEOs Who Want a Doge for Canada (thetyee.ca)
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Ponzi and pyramid schemes dressed in startup clothes rampant in the UAE (bloomberg.com)
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Safe Place for Science: French University Ready to Welcome American Scientists (univ-amu.fr)
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'I decided I was done':Canada pizzeria boycotts US ingredients in tariff dispute (theguardian.com)
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An Effective Treatment for Opioid Addiction Exists. Why Isn't It Used More? (nytimes.com)
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