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43 Years Ago, Scientists Dropped Gophers Onto a Volcano. Today, Theyβre Tiny Heroes.
A bunch of gophers helped restore the plant life around Mount St. HelensΒ after the devastating eruption in May 1980.Michael Natale (Popular Mechanics)
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I will keep suggesting this until I see people mentioning it.
Catholic nuns and priests frequently change their names when they take orders. (As do religious orders in many other faiths)
So the SAVE act is effectively disenfranchising a lot of clergy and religious individuals.
(Also a ton of musicians, actors and authors)
All the other reasons itβs an inane law also apply but noting catholic nuns and priests might show the impact more clearly to some conservative types
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Judge Orders Colorado to Stop Throwing Prisoners in Solitary for Refusing to Work - Bolts
Years after voters amended the stateβs constitution to ban forced labor in prison, a court ruling could finally make Colorado change how prison guards βcompel and coerceβ work.Michael Barajas (Bolts)
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43 Years Ago, Scientists Dropped Gophers Onto a Volcano. Today, Theyβre Tiny Heroes.
A bunch of gophers helped restore the plant life around Mount St. HelensΒ after the devastating eruption in May 1980.Michael Natale (Popular Mechanics)
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π¬ 1Β Β π 28Β Β β€οΈ 55Β Β·Β Trump told you heβd run America like a business. He is. Itβs called asset stripping. You sell the profitable pieces, gut the workforce, load it with debt, and walk away rich whβ¦Tumblr
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Interesting, a phone and an action cam combined. I actually think the idea of a standard camera mount being built in as an interesting idea.
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#Phone #Camera #Electronics #Action-Cam
Mini rugged phone aims to be your essential adventure buddy
Big screen, big battery and useful tools for outdoor enthusiasts β that's what we expect from rugged phones. But hefting one around can be like putting a brick in your pocket. Fossibot's latest effort shrinks the formula down a bit.Paul Ridden (New Atlas)
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Afroman Wins: Jury Rules Mocking Cops Who Raided Your Home Is Protected Speech
As we wrote just yesterday, the defamation trial brought by seven Adams County, Ohio deputies against rapper Afroman was going about as well for the officers as their original botched raid on his hβ¦Techdirt
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Lady Laura on MastodonPack of Dogs by John Littleboy (they also have cat cards )
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Playing Cards | Artiphany
Step into a world of visual enchantment with our extraordinary playing card decks, meticulously transformed for animal lovers.Artiphany
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Denver Crosswalk Buttons Hacked To Blast Anti-Trump Messages
"I loved it, it made my day, it was absolutely what I wanted to hear," one resident told local news.Lee Moran (HuffPost)
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I suffer from a variant of this, events sneak up on me, I need reminders, though I haven't come up with a good system, holidays, birthdays, etc often escape me unless I make a conscientious effort to keep track of them. On the other hand I do fine on small scale, need to be somewhere by 10? Sure, I'll prolly be early as I always pad things to insure I won't be late. Lots of things to do today? Yep, easy-peasy, we got this.
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#Life #β’β’Life #Time-Blindness #Mental-Health
Are You Flaky β Or Are You Just Suffering From βTime Blindnessβ?
Ever feel like time just slips away? This might be why.Brittany Wong (HuffPost)
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Reminder that United States Congress easily passed (Senate 77-20 | House 312-112) the National Defense Authorization Act for 2026 in December of 2025 which allocated $900 BILLION for defense (or war, as always).
And you can guarantee that an additional $200 billion will also easily be approved by this same group should Trump ask for it, with more than enough Democrats happily lending their support to the misguided endeavor.
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𧡠I wrote some months ago about how I'd seen an Albanian food cart that used genAI "art" to create a logo. It was a horrible uncanny valley of anthropomorphized Idaho-style russet potato.
At the time, I wrote about how using genAI wasn't just supporting theft of the creative works of artists, writers, illustrators, photographers, videographers, etc - I said that it homogenized things down to whatever its training set was.
That includes cultural skew of the training set.
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This means this Albanian business wasn't getting any particularly Albanian visual culture in its representation. It wasn't just not supporting Albanian artists, but it was proliferating images that are representative of a capitalistic slice of a few developed countries...making the visual representation of its own country and cultures rarer.
Not everyone reads the tech press or follows a lot of tech people so you may have missed when BIPOC AI experts were saying from quite some time ago that AI, as implemented by white supremacist tech, was skewed. Was racist.
Corporations may be in one country or another or many for tax reasons, but they're not "culture".
Revealed: a #crypto #billionaireβs political base hosting βanti-wokeβ and #rightwing activists in Westminster | #Politics | The Guardian
Convicted man moves abroad and then tries to disrupt his native country from afar on #immigration (hypocrite much?) and #abortion.theguardian.com/politics/2026/β¦
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Revealed: a crypto billionaireβs political base hosting βanti-wokeβ and rightwing activists in Westminster
Pardoned by Trump after violating US banking law, Ben Delo provides funding, networking, and podcasting space for a range of groups, including those with hardline views on migration and abortionSandra Laville (The Guardian)
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The Jehovahβs Witnesses Are Back Abusing Copyright Law To Unmask Their Critics. Again.
EFF announced last week that it has stepped in to defend yet another anonymous Jehovahβs Witness critic from having their identity exposed through bogus copyright claims. The Watch Tower Biblβ¦Techdirt
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"Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging in its complaint that the AI giant has committed 'massive copyright infringement.'" techcrunch.com/2026/03/16/merrβ¦The dictionary sues OpenAI | TechCrunch
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster say that OpenAI violated the copyright of almost 100,000 articles by using them for LLM training.Amanda Silberling (TechCrunch)
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Afromanβs Defamation Trial Is Going About As Well For The Deputies As Their Original Raid Did
Weβve been following the saga of Afroman (real name Joseph Foreman) and the Adams County Sheriffβs Office for a few years now, and Iβm delighted to report that the defamation triaβ¦Techdirt
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