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Trump Faced Loss After Loss. He Then Turned to a Familiar Target: The Press. (nytimes.com) - 2.
News Outlets Express Solidarity After Trump Bars Some Reporters (nytimes.com) Some Democrats said President Trump’s ban was an attempt to control the press and distract voters as Republicans face deep challenges in the…
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Mayday Mysteries (maydaymystery.org) A weird historical mystery/logic puzzle based in Tucson Arizona. Very complex. Very frustrating.
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How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013) (righto.com) The basic formula for Hacker News ranking has been known for years , but questions remained. Does the published code give the real algorithm…
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In Significant Escalation, Houthis Attack Saudi Capital (nytimes.com) The Houthis, an Iranian-backed militia, said they had fired a wave of missiles and drones at Riyadh, and on Saudi oil facilities.
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English: A vs. An (redblobgames.com) In English, there is an “indefinite” article a that can go before a word. For example, a raccoon . But for some words, we use an . For examp…
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‘Nervous and Skeptical,’ Greenlanders Question the New Deal With Trump (nytimes.com) The U.S. president’s threats to seize Greenland left its people on edge, and with details scarce, the news of an agreement didn’t seem to be…
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Measure internet censorship. Contribute to the largest open dataset (ooni.org) Measure internet censorship. Contribute to the world's largest open dataset on internet censorship. Install OONI Probe on Desktop and Mobile…
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Sherrod Brown Tries a New Retort to Criticism on Transgender Issues (nytimes.com) A spot from the Senate candidate in Ohio seeks to dismiss the Republican Party’s focus on transgender rights as a distraction from economic …
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Decision on Charging Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s Killers Looms Over Minneapolis DA Race (theintercept.com) A former public defender and former federal prosecutor both say they’ll make the right call on charging the federal immigration agents who k…
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India Is Again Squeezed Between the Threat of Trump Tariffs and Russian Oil (nytimes.com) India is trying to secure affordable energy while preserving a crucial relationship with Washington, a balancing act made harder by turmoil …
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Biochar-Enzyme Composites Achieve Over Ninety-Eight Percent Pollutant Removal in Contaminated Water and Soil (biochartoday.com) A recent study in Biochar by Sinan Zhang and colleagues demonstrates that coupling biological enzymes with tailored biochar matrices removes…
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pH-Regulated Superoxide Radicals Drive a 2.5-Fold Kinetic Acceleration in Nano-Biochar Silver Ion Reduction (biochartoday.com) A recent study in Biochar by Shiguo Gu and colleagues reveals that ball-milled wood chip nano-biochar transforms toxic silver ions into silv…
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Newsom Signs Bills Meant to Prevent Trump’s Interference in Midterms (nytimes.com) Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed legislation that would make it illegal to interfere with ballots or election records in response to e…
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Support Gaza Journalist Huda Skaik's Journey to University of London (dropsitenews.com) We have until Wednesday to help a Drop Site contributor raise $50,000
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USDA Agricultural Research Service Demonstrates High-Temperature Biochar for PFAS Immobilization at Military Sites (biochartoday.com) USDA-ARS researchers showed that wood biochar produced above 900°C immobilized over 99% of PFOS in soil, preventing groundwater contaminatio…
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Kentucky State University and USDA-NRCS Partner with Local Farmers to Assess Biochar and Regenerative Practices (biochartoday.com) Kentucky State University partnered with Kentucky farmers to evaluate biochar, cover crops, and reduced tillage on working farms. First-year…
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Biochar Industrial Group Secures $1.5M Pre-Seed Funding to Expand Factory-Integrated Carbon Removal in Sub-Saharan Africa (biochartoday.com) Biochar Industrial Group raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding to scale factory-integrated biochar units across Sub-Saharan Africa. By co-…
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At DraftKings, AI Targets the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose (nytimes.com) Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at r…
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Brood War Bench (bw.swerdlow.dev) Which model wins at Brood War? Results, recordings, costs, and game-by-game analysis of Codex, Claude, and Grok across 171 matches.
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The Rise of A.I. Is Raising Threats From Drones, Police Group Warns (nytimes.com) The leaps being made in artificial intelligence and the plunging costs of drones pose dangers to cities across the United States, according …
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I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago (laya.convaiinnovations.com) Evaluates typed decisions (choice, score, noul) over 100+ languages in a single forward pass with calibrated probabilities. Outperforms Type…
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‘Supermountains’ Buried Under Antarctica Fueled Explosion of Life, Scientists Discover (404media.co) Some 600 million years ago, the supercontinent Gondwana produced a colossal mountain range that helped set the stage for all modern complex …
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AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible (john.hartnup.uk) The problem
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How Trump Has Disrupted National Parks (nytimes.com) Maintenance projects have been put off around the country and resources diverted to the president’s favored projects in Washington.
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- The Intercept
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