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Algeria severs diplomatic ties with UAE(breakthroughnews.org)
22 points by robtherobber 2d ago|0 comments
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Oil Industry Moves to Weaken Proposed Fossil Fuel Advertising Ban in France(desmog.com)
1 points by robtherobber 2d ago|0 comments
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EPA Expected to Erase Limits on Climate Pollution from Power Plants(nytimes.com)
12 points by robtherobber 2d ago|0 comments
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More Americans Are Taking the Train Than Ever (2024)(newsweek.com)
2 points by robtherobber 2d ago|0 comments
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Mary Beard: 'There is a deeply far-right appropriation of the classics'(english.elpais.com)
10 points by robtherobber 2d ago|1 comments
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by robtherobber 4d ago
Google kept increasing its profits since then, and it was one of the most successful businesses out there way before they changed the business model to become enshittified. The argument that their business model changed because people would
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Terrorism designation has global consequences for open internet(article19.org)
2 points by robtherobber 5d ago|0 comments
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by robtherobber 5d ago
I've always been of two minds about this. I get the pushback against anglicisation - many in the world don't speak or wish to speak English. But, surely, we can all agree that adopting a lingua franca is beneficial for most; this
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The silent Apocalypse: the cult of profit is killing healthcare (part 2)(crossbordertalks.eu)
1 points by robtherobber 6d ago|0 comments
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Anthropic to Track Anti-AI Activists Before Crime Using Predictive Surveillance(techtimes.co.uk)
5 points by robtherobber 6d ago|0 comments
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EU unveils 'buy European' public procurement rules to counter China(theguardian.com)
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Streaming Is Raising Prices Faster Than Cable Ever Did(hollywoodreporter.com)
17 points by robtherobber 6d ago|8 comments
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Middle aged are 'squeezed from every angle', some cannot even picture retirement(thisismoney.co.uk)
4 points by robtherobber 7d ago|0 comments
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How Companies Undercut Dissent(news.mccombs.utexas.edu)
3 points by robtherobber 7d ago|0 comments
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Reclaiming the streets: the architects clawing back Europe's car-centric spaces(theguardian.com)
20 points by robtherobber 7d ago|0 comments
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by robtherobber 7d ago
Sad state of affairs.
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Our Technological Wager(dissentmagazine.org)
1 points by robtherobber 8d ago|0 comments
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People are more likely to ditch the car and use an e‑bike if they feel safe(theconversation.com)
5 points by robtherobber 8d ago|1 comments
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'Gambling with our lives': AI researcher quits Anthropic(moneywise.com)
4 points by robtherobber 8d ago|0 comments
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Going Home – What would it take to make housing a human right?(thebaffler.com)
6 points by robtherobber 8d ago|0 comments
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Britain's grid operator gave Palantir contract without inviting rival bids(ft.com)
2 points by robtherobber 8d ago|0 comments
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by robtherobber 8d ago
I think we may have different interpretations for makes an individual interesting, or I'm misreading your comment. This is at the opposite spectrum of interesting to me (on David Heinemeier Hansson): > He wrote a blog post, “As I re
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The Tragic Romance of the Nostalgic Western Liberal (2020)(foreignpolicy.com)
2 points by robtherobber 9d ago|0 comments
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The auto lobby spent millions on media manipulation(impuls.news)
31 points by robtherobber 12d ago|14 comments
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by robtherobber 12d ago
I never paid too much attention to what happens behind the screens, in the OS software realpolitik realm, but for some reason I kept assuming - incorrectly, it seems - that most people who show a deep appreciation to the open source philoso
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Haiti, Erik Prince, and the Cost of Privatized Security(fpif.org)
2 points by robtherobber 13d ago|0 comments
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Memo from 1970: 'A Plan for Putting the GOP on TV News' (2011)(poynter.org)
1 points by robtherobber 13d ago|0 comments
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by robtherobber 14d ago
> CERN engineers had considered moving to CentOS Stream as a more natural pathway but ultimately they say "the straw that broke the camel's back" to abandon Red Hat Enterprise Linux was the "-march=x86-64-v2" com
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NATO's next nightmare: The French presidential election(politico.eu)
16 points by robtherobber 14d ago|1 comments
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by robtherobber 14d ago
I suppose you're correct, and it's my frustration speaking there. That said, the internet is absolutely immense in terms of articles to read, an arguably poor source is simply not worth the effort.

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