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True Price, a Dutch nonprofit, aims to help us grasp the real costs of consumption.

Take 30 seconds to demand the Treasury Department comply with the Privacy Act of 1974, and spread the word After “How do we stop Trump?” the second most common question I’ve received this week is “How do we stop Musk?” As you may know, Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott

Ars staffers take aim at some of the web’s worst predatory practices.

The Knights of the Flaming Circle was a militant organization founded in 1923 to fight the anti-Catholic Ku Klux Klan.[1] They were part of an opposition that included politicians, labor leaders and immigrant groups.[2] Membership was open to anyone who opposed the KKK and was "not a Protestant".[3] They had significant support amongst various ethnic groups in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.[1] Bryce Bauer has written that, "Instead of only admitting white, native-born Protestants as the Klan did, the organization vowed to accept anyone who was anything other than that."[4]

A republic, if you can keep it.

Why the tariffs might — and might not — still happen.

The HTTP Clear-Site-Data response header sends a signal to the client that it should remove all browsing data of certain types (cookies, storage, cache) associated with the requesting website. It allows web developers to have more control over the data stored by browsers for their origins.

I’ve had a few folks respond to my emails recently telling me something along the lines of… Just stick to web development and stop writing about politics. You’re going to alienate half of your list. And oh boy, do I have feelings about this! Politics is always woven into my work, whether explicit or implicit. I care that when women tell men they’re developers or engineers, they get asked dumb shit like…

The hack has the potential to be one of the biggest of the year, but the edtech giant is refusing to answer important questions

A breach in an email server setup by Musk's lackeys just allowed over 13,000 government email addresses to be overrun with spam.

New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.

The inaction of high profile and leadership Democrats is not just weakness — it's a betrayal of Democratic principles and thus our nation...

We're going to have to be our own leaders now. The ones we hired are broken.

Trump’s tariffs will have wide ranging effects on the 5.3 million vehicles built in Mexico and Canada.

Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

Poor kids in the US are likely to become poor adults. More government support during adulthood could change that.

We Canadians are overwhelmingly pro-Ukraine and anti-Putin, so when the CBC published an expose last week about "banned Russian oil" sneaki...

In July 1980, a group of Salvadoran migrants crossed the border between Mexico and Arizona. They walked over a remote mountain range and halfway across a wide desert valley in the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. There were more than two dozen of them—people who had left behind lives and jobs to come to the United

No.342 — Hypernormalisation ⊗ Getting to know futures studies ⊗ DeepSeek reader ⊗ Chinese fusion power generation

Acid communism? Psychedelic Corbynism? Freak left? Call it what you will – but re-infuse endeavours with a spirit of radical collectivism and unselfing to revivify co-opted countercultures for a world that would be free.

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No.341 — A Newspaper from a (Near) Future ⊗ The global struggle over how to regulate AI ⊗ These homes withstood the LA fires

When Hurricane Helene hit Western North Carolina, the Swannanoa River rose three storys above its shores, all but erasing the town named after the river, and leaving hundreds homeless. But the chal…