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Book Review: How Plagues Are Intertwined With Social Justice
Conor Gallagher
Conor here: I think the question posed at the end is one a lot of people are working through, and none of the answers are reassuring. By Ramin Skibba, an astrophysicist turned science writer and fre ...[Continue Reading]
Nakedcapitalism.com
over 1 year ago
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Dutch government to replace Microsoft Windows with NixOS-based operating system
Rob Beschizza
The government of the Netherlands plans to replace Microsoft's Windows and other software with a custom Linux-based operating system and IT suite named DAWO (Digitaal Autonome Werkomgeving Overheid). ...[Continue Reading]
Boing Boing
1 day ago
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Heidi Overton Is As Shifty as a Window
Danielle Han
If you can say for a fact that mifepristone is safe, that an IUD is not a form of abortion, and that the EPAs obsession with testing wastewater for abortion medication is rooted in a bunch of hogwash ...[Continue Reading]
Jezebel
1 day ago
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CERN has begun disconnecting the Large Hadron Collider
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) stretches 27 km around and relies on thousands of magnets of different types - dipoles, quadrupoles, sextupoles, octupoles, decapoles, etc. - to steer and control its ...[Continue Reading]
Science Daily
1 day ago
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Uncle Sam wants in on Musk's 120M fight with Brussels
Connor Jones
The US government wants to join Elon Musk and X's legal challenge to the European Commission's 120 million fine against the social media platform. The Commission issued its first fine under the Digi ...[Continue Reading]
Theregister.com
1 day ago
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Israeli official takes notes after UN walkout against Netanyahu
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An Israeli official was filmed taking notes after UN delegates staged a walk out during a speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Desks were left empty when delegates from dozens of nati ...[Continue Reading]
Al Jazeera English
1 day ago