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While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out:

A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully.

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ICE is a menace to democracy and its murderous conduct should be soberly considered. But we should also recognize that these people are weak and sad and ought to be made fun of.

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Since his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated.

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If you were to count out a million seconds, it would take you 11 and a half days.

A billion seconds would take you 31.7 years.

But a trillion seconds would take 31,700 years — to reach that point today, you would have needed to start counting around the time that neanderthals went extinct.

A trillion dollars is a stupid amount of money

No one man should have all that power.

"Why is it so normal for law enforcement — those who are supposed to be keepers of law and order — to kill Americans? And why is the only question at the end of the day how much their victims deserved to die?"

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Mayor Scott Furgeson was caught on camera saying of the “No Data Center” signs going up that, “I’ve seen a lot of these all over town, but I only see them in shitty houses,” before adding, “most of them are rentals.”

The mayor of Shelbyville, Indiana, says only people who live in ‘shitty houses’ oppose data center

Scott Furgeson “regrets” his “choice of words.”

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez won a historic sum of $375 million in a landmark child safety case against Meta earlier this year. The next stage of the fight begins today, and it could be even more consequential for Meta and the social media industry at large.

Meta’s historic loss in court could cost a lot more than $375 million

The state previously won a $375 million jury award against Meta.

There’s plenty of disinformation trying to blame the nascent offshore wind industry for whale deaths without evidence. Not only is that misleading, it also takes the focus away from solutions that might actually address the leading causes of death — vessel strikes and entanglement with fishing gear.

Whales are dying, but it’s not because of wind farms

Investigating a whale beaching is grueling work, and scientists see the same culprit again and again.

As Homeland Security’s siege on Minneapolis enters its third week, locals are volunteering for patrol shifts, protesting in the streets, and keeping one another up to date in group texts.

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It’s worse than it looks in Minneapolis

But locals are organizing to keep each other safe from ICE agents.

"I didn’t realize, in the hours before his name was released to the public, that the man millions of people had seen lying facedown on the pavement from multiple angles of eyewitness video was my childhood best friend."

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Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

Age verification for all.

Tesla rejected $60 million settlement in Autopilot case that ultimately cost it 4 times that amount

Tesla rejected $60 million settlement in Autopilot case that ultimately cost it 4 times that amount

The company was ordered to pay $243 million in punitive and compensatory damages by a Miami jury.

Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

We the Builders aims to explain why DOGE’s data access matters.

Unlike information obtained from cellphone providers, this data can be accessed without a warrant — and used to track anyone.

The FBI is buying Americans’ location data

“We do purchase commercially available information.”

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

Under RFK Jr., ‘Make America Healthy Again’ means junk science like ‘survival of the fittest.’

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The EU's wider rules, which kick in from February 18th, 2027, are simple:

Users must be able to remove and replace batteries with basic tools, or specialized tools that are provided with the product for free, and compatible spare batteries must be sold for at least five years.

User-replaceable batteries are coming back in a big way

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Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

Flock off

"Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.“

A sneaky rule change has the potential to blow up scientific research in the United States. But there’s still time to fight it.

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ICE may have lost the battle for public opinion, and its operation may be hampered by local pushback, but it has succeeded in one respect: It has instilled terror in Minnesota’s immigrant communities, forcing them into the shadows.

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From October 2025: “I might invoke Edward R. Murrow, but they remember him. They don’t have any goodwill toward you. They don’t know who you are at all. And they are not going to defend you when you screw up.”

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Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

It’s not about the burritos.

This year’s spread of Cyclospora – better known as the ‘explosive diarrhea parasite’ – is a symptom of federal budget cuts and a scary vision of how America deals with a health crisis in the future.

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"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and LLMs. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich."

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Around a quarter of US farmers did not lock in fertilizer prices last fall, and many are now scrambling to cover costs stemming from a war they didn’t anticipate.

The Strait of Hormuz blockade is causing a slow-moving food crisis

A crisis in the making.