[Link]Meta-rational failure (and success) in the covid crisis
This is a link post for: Meta-rational failure (and success) in the covid crisis The gist is probably familiar to many of you, but there are lots of extremely interesting details…
Mehdi Challenges Hunter Biden on Gaza, the 2024 Election, Democrats, and His Own Regrets
In a no-holds-barred, hour-long, in-person conversation in LA, Biden also talks to Mehdi about his addiction, corruption allegations, the Trumps, and his father’s disastrous…
Citrix Adds a Linux-Powered Escape Hatch For Compromised Windows PCs
Citrix's Desktop as a Service (DaaS) product includes a lightweight, hardened second operating system called UniconOS (once called "eLux") to offer Windows customers a…
Exploit on Rain crypto payments infrastructure provider causes losses for "self-custodial" neobanks
Google's Calling Lake Ontario 'Lake America' Now
Google Maps announced on Saturday it would start reflecting the change for U.S.-based users.
The Basic Case Against Human-First Ethics
This is a crosspost from my blog post . At any one time, there are more than 4.5 billion chickens trapped in cages that cause them constant pain and distress. Because of this, I…
Major Good News Roundup! Independent Journalism is Surging and Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity!
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BMW Blames Young People For Loss of Real Buttons In New Cars
BMW is about to release their most screen-dependent vehicles ever, reports Car and Driver: Step into the BMW iX3, and you'll notice something is missing: real buttons. The climate…
The Sunday — August 30
This is the Tangle Sunday Edition, a brief roundup of our independent politics coverage plus some extra features for your Sunday morning reading. Editor’s Note: Last week, we ran…
Big Oil Is Spending Record Amounts to Stop California From Regulating It
The industry poured over $17 million into fighting climate and worker-safety legislation in the first half of 2026.
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Ahhh, relax with the sights and sounds of the Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator .
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This Week in Democracy – Week 84: Trump Admin Plans Largest Visa Revocations in History as ICE Arrests Reach Record High
Zeteo’s weekly round-up, documenting the growth of authoritarianism in Trump’s second term.
Free Speech Groups Sound Alarm on “Red Scare” Repression of ICE Watch Activists
Advocates asked a court to unseal more details on Trump's surveillance of churches, schools, and libraries in Minnesota.
Pete Hegseth And His Department Of Unconstitutional Revenge Lose Again In California
When Pete Hegseth declared Anthropic a national security risk because it wouldn’t agree to his dangerously unethical demands for what Claude should be able to do, Anthropic sued…