2025-05-18
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Fort Worth surpasses 1M residents, Princeton fastest-growing nationwide
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Clever Toyota GR86, Subaru BRZ Bolt-Ons Turn Control Arms into Brake Coolers
It’s an air duct that rides on the lower control arms, routing fast-moving air toward the front discs and calipers to cool them off. This looks like a great aftermarket solution for squeezing a little more life out of Toyobaru brakes that see on-track action without requiring you to cut anything. I’ve seen people make stuff like this out of dryer hoses, but I can’t say I’ve seen a well-made, bolt-on duct that goes directly onto a car’s control arm like A’PEXi’s N1 Brake Duct here.
Horseshit
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Controversial dentist Mike Mew on how 'mewing' can make you more attractive
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49 commercial properties in downtown SF might be converted into homes
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Magnus Carlsen is playing a single game of chess against 140K people
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World Press Photo suspends credit for historic 'Napalm Girl' photo
World Press Photo announced Friday it will suspend the authorship attribution of The Terror of War, also known as "Napalm Girl," the iconic photograph taken in 1972 during the Vietnam War. An independent investigation was launched by World Press Photo in January after a documentary released by The VII Foundation last year questioned whether Huỳnh Công (Nick) Út, the Associated Press staff photographer credited with the shot, actually took it. "Investigative analysis from World Press Photo indicated that, based on analysis of location, distance, and the camera used on that day, photographers Nguyễn Thành Nghệ or Huỳnh Công Phúc may have been better positioned to take the photograph than Nick Út," World Press Photo stated in a news release. "Due to this current doubt, World Press Photo has suspended the attribution to Nick Út."
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Living beings emit faint light that extinguishes upon death, according to study
celebrity gossip
Musk
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
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MIT paper on AI for materials research found to be fraudulent
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A $5 Billion Federal School Voucher Proposal Advances in Congress - The New York Times
The program in the budget bill could bring vouchers to all 50 states for the first time, including Democratic-leaning ones that have long rejected the idea. Supporters hailed the proposal as “historic” and a “huge win,” but some cautioned that there was still much legislative haggling ahead.
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New York Bans Smartphones in Schools, Joining National Movement
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Meta argues enshittification isn't real in bid to toss FTC monopoly case
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Fortnite unavailable on iPhones globally after Apple rejects App Store release
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WordPerfect for DOS, in the opinion of many knowledgeable users, is still the greatest program ever written. Some of its features have not been matched even by the latest Windows software, and its interface remains unequaled for efficiency and elegance.
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Doom: One of gaming's oldest series reckons with the challenges of 2025
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Verizon is paying $9.6 billion and taking on $10 billion in debt to acquire Frontier.
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Charter is buying Cox (the Communications cancel out) for $21.9 billion.
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Google is quietly giving Amazon a leg up in digital book sales
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Matching Teens to "Groomers" Was Once Part of This Company's Business
The idea that FB/IG had “work to do” on “grooming,” and that certain kinds of underfunding were “deliberate,” became more explicit when an exhibit was introduced, an internal study from the next year, 2019, titled “Inappropriate Interactions with Children on Instagram.” To be clear from the start, the mere fact that FB/IG conducted this study showed executives were concerned about the problem, and understood there was “work to do there.” However, the study suggested not only that there was a longstanding problem with “groomers” meeting minors on IG, but that the company’s algorithms were accelerating those interactions.
You can do the math yourself, but 22% of 2 million minors receiving follow requests from “groomers” over a 3-month period is not a small number. Perhaps more unsettling was a slide reading, “We may be facilitating possible groomers finding young people,” adding, “IG recommended a minor… to an account engaged in groomer-esque behavior.”
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Why Are There So Many 'Alternative Devices' All of a Sudden?
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The 'deprofessionalization of video games' was on full display at PAX East
These three forces, he argues, will combine to "drive career professionals from the traditional, professionalized side of the games industry." "Some of these people will decide to go indie," he continues. "Others will leave gaming altogether. And in between there’s a vast spectrum of irregular working arrangements available." Is this trend real? It sure felt so at PAX East 2025. It's no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic led to many game companies decamping from expo floors, retreating to either all-online promotion or in-person community meetups structured around intermittent panels. Gone are the days where a chunk of the development team can get one-on-one facetime with players—shifts in supply and demand have simply moved where marketing takes place.
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TP-Link Accused of Keeping Router Prices Low to Help China Conduct Cyberattacks
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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Trump Fumes After Supreme Court Rules Venezuelan Illegals Can't Be Deported (For Now) | ZeroHedge
The Supreme Court ruled this afternoon to keep in place its block on President Trump's deportations of (alleged) Venezuelan gang members under a 1798 law historically used only in wartime after their ACLU lawyers said the government was set to remove the men without judicial review in violation of a prior order by the justices. Justices agreed that the president could rely on the centuries-old wartime law to remove immigrants from the country - provided they first have an opportunity to challenge those claims in court - and then temporarily blocked the government from deporting another group of Venezuelans in Texas while their lawyers scrambled to challenge the allegations against them. The 7-2 decision clarified an unusual order issued by the justices in the early hours of April 19 that hit pause on any government plans to deport people held in northern Texas.
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Democrats
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Newly Released Biden-Hur Audio Captures Former President’s Stumbles from Special Counsel Interview
Amid long, uncomfortable pauses, Joe Biden struggled to recall when his son died, when he left office as vice president, what year Donald Trump was elected or why he had classified documents he shouldn't have had, according to audio Axios obtained of his October 2023 interviews with special counsel Robert Hur. The newly released recordings of Biden having trouble recalling such details — while occasionally slurring words and muttering — shed light on why his White House refused to release the recordings last year, as questions mounted about his mental acuity. The audio also appears to validate Hur's assertion that jurors in a trial likely would have viewed Biden as "a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."
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The Biden question hanging over the 2028 field - POLITICO
“How are some of these national frontrunners or people who are already barnstorming states like South Carolina or Iowa expected to look voters in the eyes with a straight face and say, ‘Trust me, even though I got the 2024 election so terribly wrong?’” asked the former Rep. Joe Cunningham (D-S.C.), who said he expects the issue to come up on the trail in what is now the first-in-the-nation primary state. “There’s no courage on display by any of the folks whose names are being circulated right now.” He said the party’s Biden question needs to be “nipped in the bud” if Democrats want to reestablish trust with voters.
For the most part, leading Democrats — many of whom attested to Biden’s fitness when he was still on the ticket — are ducking what is fast becoming the first real litmus test of the 2028 campaign. The problem for Democrats is Biden’s blast radius keeps expanding. It isn’t just the embarrassing accounts dribbling out from a forthcoming book. It’s that so many Democrats with 2028 ambitions were defending him at the time — and are now being forced to answer for what they knew and when.
Left Angst
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Trump’s Push to Defund Harvard Prompts Clash Over Veteran Suicide Research
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A Reality Show Where Immigrants Compete for Citizenship? DHS Considering It.
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To Save America's Democracy We Should End Elections
My proposition to remedy is insanely simple and elegant in my opinion: randomly appointed citizens summoned at random to legislate. We would be governed by a representative sample of our country as was intended.
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Fired US govt workers, Uncle Xi wants you – to apply for a fake consulting gig
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America's consumer watchdog drops leash on proposed data broker crackdown
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RFK Jr plan to ban fluoride supplements will "hurt rural America," dentists say
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Federal agencies continue terminating all funding to Harvard