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TIL: The 2000s piracy PSA used a font designed by the fantastic
Just van Rossum
, whose brother Guido created the Python programming language.
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âPiracy. Itâs a Crime.â PSA
From Wikipedia: âYou Wouldnât Steal a Carâ is the first sentence and commonly used name of a public service announcement that debuted on July 12, 2004 in cinemas, and July 27 on home media, which wa...
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/67480/piracy-it-s-a-crime-psa
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I want to overlay GIS data with 2023 satellite imagery, and have been struggling to do this. I've tried USDA National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) data to no avail. Is NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS) my best bet? I'm to turn around results quickly & worry about the learning curve.
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A bright ray cutting through depression today: getting a NASA API key (the screenshot comprises just a few of those available)!
api.nasa.gov
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Sam Levin
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After José's arrest sparked outrage in August, DHS attacked him in a press release, calling him a "criminal illegal alien, not a firefighter." DHS has cited a 12-year-old drug delivery charge while failing to acknowledge the charge was dismissed. Full
@us.theguardian.com
interview and story here:
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US firefighter detained on the job speaks out after deportation: âI feel betrayedâ
Exclusive: Border patrol arrested José Bertin Cruz-Estrada while he was battling a wildfire in Washington. He is now in Mexico, separated from his family in Oregon
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/11/washington-firefighter-deported-mexico
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Low stakes gripe, but on top whatâs been pointed out about this post, Iâve never met a single fan of either The Iliad or The Odyssey whoâs said Rieuâs is their favorite translation, and I know many: Homer is mandatory reading at my alma mater (albeit Lattimoreâs translations, when I was there)!
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Chris Steller
3 days ago
For the midnight crew on this
#EdmundFitzgwtald50
anniversary, I have added more markups to the Newsweek article that gave Gordon Lightfoot his template for His "Wreck of" song lyrics.
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You can read the Bureau of Justice Statistics report cited in the visualization below here:
bjs.ojp.gov/library/publ...
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Fellow arthropod fans: This is even more amazing than the headline describes! The researchers say itâs âthe first evidence of colonial behavior in two common spider species.â
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I read a fascinating
@askhistorians.bsky.social
answer tonight re: historical voter turnout in NYC, especially of interest since I learned that Tuesday saw a turnout of >2 million, the highest turnout since *1969* (great data on 2025 election here:
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/06/h...
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From the AskHistorians community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the AskHistorians community
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1op36sa/the_1973_new_york_mayoral_election_saw_a_collapse
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I want to note a statistic I often find quoted online, and what I believe to be the source: âPrior non-fatal strangulation was associated with [âŠ] over seven-fold odds (OR 7.48, 95% CI 4.53â12.35) of becoming a completed homicide.â
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Eric Umansky
6 days ago
DHS stopped automatically archiving officialsâ text messages. Now to save messages â as law requiresâ officials gotta⊠-take a screenshot. -send it to their work computer -run the file through a program there -repeat
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Alex Baumhardt
6 days ago
A perimeter of parents and what appeared to be a priest and other faith leaders were out all around the neighborhood surrounding Chavez as students were recently dismissed.
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Jenn ChĂĄvez
7 days ago
Our union - which you can follow on here if you like our journalism, storytelling, music programming, public media in general, and good vibes - has been sharing some personal stories from our members. Here is one from Meg from KMHD Jazz Radio:
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Julia Métraux
7 days ago
"Having somebody who is hungry and worried about feeding their own children is an enormous amount of stress that will impact anybodyâs ability to do their job well." I spoke with
@aijenpoo.bsky.social
about the issues domestic workers face at
@motherjones.com
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www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Domestic workers count on SNAP. Trump's shutdown is hitting hard.
Cleaners, nannies, and home health aides work full-timeâand still disproportionately rely on food stamps.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/snap-shutdown-government-food-domestic-workers/
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I need accounts like this to actually link to the story theyâre citing. If I have the right link, this strikes me as an overstatement.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Chris Morran
8 days ago
Under Trump 2.0, three CFPB probes into Andreessen-backed companies have been halted, including inquiries into the popular cash advance app EarnIn and Point Digital Finance, a provider of so-called alternative mortgages.
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Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. Itâs Paying Off for Silicon Valley.
The Trump administrationâs gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been good for venture capitalists like Andreessen, who previously accused the agency of âterrorizingâ fintech startup...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-marc-andreessen-silicon-valley?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=cm
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Jacob Bogage
8 days ago
đ Scoop: IRS Direct File, the free government-backed program that let you file your taxes for free, is dead. IRS wrote to state tax agencies saying it would not be operational this coming tax season, per records I've obtained. IRS Direct File: 2023-2025. (Story from when the pilot launched.)
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IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax-prep giants
The tax agency has quietly built its own prototype system for filing tax returns digitally and free of charge, according to current and former officials.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/15/irs-free-file/
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This is, as ever, an excellent piece by JulianneâI braced myself for anguish at learning whatâs being lost, but I also learned about a lot of great community violence intervention (CVI) programs, and I appreciate the note she ends on.
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Joseph Cox
9 days ago
PSA from 404 Media: you can opt-out of a data broker selling your flight travel data to the government to be searched without a warrant. Here's how I did it. This is ARC, the data broker owned by major U.S. airlines like United, Delta, American, etc
www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...
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How to Opt-Out of Airlines Selling Your Travel Data to the Government
The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), owned by major U.S. airlines, collects billions of ticketing records and sells them to the government to be searched without a warrant. I managed to opt-out o...
https://www.404media.co/how-to-opt-out-of-airlines-selling-your-travel-data-to-the-government/
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Anna Gifty
9 days ago
My final piece for
@teenvogue.com
politics section was a piece titled "There's a Steep Price to Ignoring Black Expertise" and boy has that come full circle. Thank you
@allegrak.bsky.social
and the politics editorial team for turning this Head Start kid into a Black woman who writes for the public.
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Thereâs a Steep Cost for Ignoring Black Expertise
We live in a world bent on undermining Black life.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/black-scholars-academics-expertise
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
9 days ago
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of todayâs layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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Dare Obasanjo
12 days ago
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
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Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category â arXiv blog
https://blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/attention-authors-updated-practice-for-review-articles-and-position-papers-in-arxiv-cs-category/
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Chris Morran
11 days ago
If you see any business owners belittling SNAP recipients for accepting government money to get through tough times, maybe look them up on
@propublica.org
's PPP Loan Tracker to see if they got any of the $793B in bailout money (96% of which was forgiven)
projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/...
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Tracking PPP: Search Every Company Approved for Federal Loans - ProPublica
As part of the Paycheck Protection Program, the federal government has provided hundreds of billions in financial support to banks to make low-interest loans to companies and nonprofit organizations i...
https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/
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Michael Baym
11 days ago
Between grants getting politically targeted and my labâs building getting literally fucking bombed, 2025 is going great thanks
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worm adderall (feral)
12 days ago
it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
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Maggie Koerth
13 days ago
Important pedantry. This is interesting in part because he explains it well enough that I think most laypeople will understand why the pedantry matters. Journalists should take notice!
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I post this as a Wikipedia editor, not linking because I don't want to put anyone on blast: These were posted as derisive evidence (the scare quotes in Wikipedia). The text was real, but imo wrong. That use is explicitly discouraged in the manual of style:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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Justin Baragona
14 days ago
This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
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Noah Lanard
15 days ago
DHS often say assaults against ICE officers have skyrocketed, but fails to provide real data to back that up. I reviewed ICE's own Fallen Officers page. It tells a much different story, and shows that none of its officer have been killed by an immigrant since the agency was created.
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Cuomo says Mamdani isnât âin syncâ with New Yorkers and Bartiromo segues into ânext year is the 25th anniversary of 9/11â with all the subtlety of a Tim Robinson character
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Amy Westervelt
16 days ago
A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Julia Métraux
16 days ago
I am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm
@motherjones.com
's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is
[email protected]
and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.
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Meredith Whittaker
17 days ago
The question isnât "why does Signal use AWS?" Itâs to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where thereâs no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/
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Mike Murphy
17 days ago
Cannot express enough appreciation for the teams *flying through a hurricane* while not being paid.
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404 Media
21 days ago
Metaâs Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a $60 to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers around the country. đ
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
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A $60 Mod to Metaâs Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light
Metaâs Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers ar...
https://www.404media.co/how-to-disable-meta-rayban-led-light/
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Meade Krosby
19 days ago
Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown. Story by
@heyjohnryan.bsky.social
at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.
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Furloughed feds pick up Seattle beach trash to keep serving the public
Furloughed federal employees were out in the rain picking up cigarette butts, bottle caps, and other trash at Seattleâs Golden Gardens Park on Friday.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/furloughed-feds-pick-up-seattle-beach-trash-to-keep-serving-the-public
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whet moser
19 days ago
how did i not know about this
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_p...
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Rural purge - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_purge
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Sam Biddle
20 days ago
SCOOP: I obtained internal documents showing Amazon has been selling cloud computing and AI services to the state-owned Israeli weapons manufacturers whose bombs and missiles have ravaged Gaza.
theintercept.com/2025/10/24/a...
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As Israel Bombed Gaza, Amazon Did Business With Its Bomb-Makers
The Intercept has learned that Amazon sold cloud services to Israeli weapons firms at the height of Israelâs bombardment of Gaza.
https://theintercept.com/2025/10/24/amazon-weapons-gaza-israel-rafael-iai/
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This is fascinating. The story links to the full (41-page) complaint, which is definitely going to be weekend reading for me.
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Justin Hendrix
20 days ago
"But buried amid the A.I. division layoffs was a different set of cuts. The company laid off more than 100 people in its risk review organization, according to three people familiar with the move and internal memos viewed by The Times."
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Meta Layoffs Included Employees Who Monitored Risks to User Privacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/technology/meta-layoffs-user-privacy.html
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A post has gone viral today that uses the Unicode block Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols, making text look italic (e.g. đđĄđđđđ), so I want to share the accessibility tip that special characters like these cannot be read by (most, perhaps all*) screen readers. [1/4]
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How special characters affect screen readers - Scope for Business
Learn how special characters, Unicode symbols, punctuation, emoticons and ASCII art impact screen reader accessibility and AT users.
https://business.scope.org.uk/accessibility-screen-readers-special-characters-and-unicode-symbols/
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CJ Ciaramella
22 days ago
Latest: I wrote about the DHS Office of Public Affairs shameless lies about ICE arrests and all the times it's lied to me and other reporters lately. DHS did not respond to my request for comment about all the lies it's told.
reason.com/2025/10/22/h...
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Homeland Security won't stop lying about who immigration enforcers are arresting
In case after case, Homeland Security's Public Affairs Office releases incorrect information about arrests carried out by federal immigration officers.
https://reason.com/2025/10/22/homeland-security-wont-stop-lying-about-who-immigration-enforcers-are-arresting/?nab=0
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happy holiJes đgrampy radish
22 days ago
I get food assistance in minnesota and got this text tonight. MFIP is our TANF
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Shefali Luthra
24 days ago
ICEâs own policies say the agency should not detain pregnant, postpartum or nursing individuals. Itâs doing so anyway. Immigrantsâ health is suffering. Congress has abandoned a requirement that ICE make public how many such immigrants have been detained.
19thnews.org/2025/10/ice-...
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ICE keeps detaining pregnant immigrants â against federal policy
But the number is impossible to measure since Congress let lapse a requirement that ICE report how many pregnant, postpartum and nursing immigrants are in custody.
https://19thnews.org/2025/10/ice-detaining-pregnant-nursing-immigrants/
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Henry Carnell
26 days ago
I'll be editing videos coming in from our reporters on the ground. Let me know if you see anything interesting!
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Carl T. Bergstrom
26 days ago
Letâs put it another way. When a huge tech company pushes your school district to adopt $100 million AI learning system throughout K-12, do you want vibes, or a powerful scientific evidence base illustrating the harm?
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Jason Koebler
27 days ago
So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
âWith fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.â
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-dangerous-decline-in-human-visitors/
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Iâm sad to hear about Baek Se-Hee; I was grateful for her memoir, and now this, from The Korea Herald: âAccording to the Korea Organ Donation Agency, Baek saved five lives through organ donation. The agency said on Thursday that she donated her heart, lungs, liver and kidneys.â êł ìžì ëȘ ëł”ì ëčëë€.
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Baek Se-hee, author of 'I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki,' dies at 35
Baek Se-hee, the author of the bestselling memoir "I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki," has died at the age of 35. According to the Korea Organ Donation
https://koreaherald.com/article/10595611
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One week ago: "I guess I'll finally try reading Lord of the Rings again, for the first time in my adult life" Today: "I cannot abide my ebook's shoddy inline jpegs for rendering cirths when free and open source typefaces of the various Certhas exist"
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