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Apple seems to have persuaded OpenAI to work for exposure in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You are the product.

Trans man wins $4.7 million from school district that didn't let him use the restroom in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That's an argument for making utilities publicly-owned again more than anything else.

Pronouns and tribal affiliations are now forbidden in South Dakota public university employee emails in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 396 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The party of small government is now regulating your email signatures.

Windows XP in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 200 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Retroshittification

Trump, Still Stuck in 2020, Recycles His Tired Drug Test Demand in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Sure, but he'll pick the doctor for both of them

Police take back building from protesters at University of California, Irvine in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Pretty sure that building belongs more to the students than to the cops.

Hush money isn't illegal, it's 'democracy,' Trump lawyer says in defiant trial opening statements in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I like this take

Supreme Court weighs Donald Trump case, abortion bans, homeless camps in blockbuster week in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I don't want Biden breaking the law either.

Trump’s super PAC has helped foot his legal bills. That might end soon. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

What about the last 10 years would make you think that logic will be an effective way to expose their hypocrisy?

U.S. likely to enact a law soon that could ban TikTok nationwide, President Joe Biden vowed to sign it into law in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 77 points 4 months ago (12 children)

Since when does Congress ban websites or dictate what apps people can have on their devices? Regardless of how you feel about this particular company, I feel like no one is talking about the internet-killing precedent that's being set here, and that should be concerning.

Trump's abortion statement angers conservatives and gives the Biden campaign a new target in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The abortion issue has the power to prove to millions of cynical people what nothing else could: voting matters.

Number of races since last win in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Nice to see Max on the list too

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South Africa may seek way out of hosting Brics summit over Putin arrest (www.theguardian.com)
 

South Africa may abandon its role as host of this year’s Brics summit in an attempt to avoid international pressure to arrest the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, who is wanted by the international criminal court on charges of war crimes.

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Trump allies cite Clinton email probe to attack classified records case. There are big differences (www.independent.co.uk)
 

As Donald Trump readies for a momentous court appearance Tuesday on charges related to the hoarding of top-secret documents, Republican allies are amplifying, without evidence, claims that he's the target of a political prosecution

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Ukraine war: Russia moves to take direct control of Wagner Group (www.bbc.com)
 

Russia appears to have moved to take direct control of Wagner, after months of infighting between defence officials and the private military group.

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Ukraine's Zelenskyy confirms that an offensive against Russia is underway (www.npr.org)
 

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday gave his first formal confirmation that Ukraine's long-awaited offensive was underway against Russian troops.

"Counteroffensive and defensive actions are taking place in Ukraine. At what stage, I will not say in detail," Zelenskyy said in a joint news conference with visiting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

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From ‘cranks’ to contenders: how Spain’s far-right Vox party is rising toward power (www.theguardian.com)
 

Once dismissed as anachronistic, the radical party hopes to ride a wave of patriotism in next month’s elections. In the town of Rascafría, its focus on local issues is proving effective

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What’s up with those claims the US has recovered UFOs? (www.vox.com)
 

A former government official named David Grusch, who has worked in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office, has gone public and is saying some curious things.

Grusch says that he’s been told of secret government programs that have “intact and partially intact vehicles” of non-human origin. He says he’s been told both the US government and other governments have been engaged in a “publicly unknown Cold War” to try to reverse-engineer technology from these craft.

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How the right’s defeats gave us the anti-LGBTQ moment (www.vox.com)
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Ex-Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon arrested in connection with party funding probe, reports say (www.cbc.ca)
 

Former Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon was arrested on Sunday, the BBC and Sky reported, after Police Scotland said a 52-year-old woman was in custody being questioned as part of its investigation into the Scottish National Party's funding.

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Trump-appointed judge will stay on Mar-a-Lago documents case unless she recuses (www.independent.co.uk)
 

A federal judge appointed to the bench by Donald Trump and previously scrutinised for rulings that were solidly in Mr Trump’s favour was assigned to preside over his prosecution in a Florida court under normal procedures, denying the possibility that the case will be reassigned.

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