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There's a common misunderstanding that the land that was granted is the land that the university is on. But the land grant involved far more land and the displacement of far more people than just the land occupied by the university. Penn State's endowment, for example, was created through the sale of three quarters of a million acres of the lands of more than 100 other nations, tribes, and bands to our west.

The issue of publicly saving shared LLM chats is bigger than just Google.

The actor will be sworn in ‘ASAP’ amid the federal agency’s recruitment drive and unprecedented immigration raids that have sparked protest across the US

Con Edison, city’s monopoly utility, cut off 88,000 households in first half of 2025 as climate crisis drives extreme temperatures

The Lost Cause doesn't seem all that lost anymore.

We're going to have to be our own leaders now. The ones we hired are broken. Playing the Right Game - a series about directional alignment.

Drug use and mental health challenges are connected. Teens can discover tools, stories, and support to navigate emotions, cope with stress, and understand substance use.

The app's recent swastika push alert was just the tip of the iceberg.

The Tucson city council voted unanimously Wednesday against bringing the massive and water-devouring Project Blue data center — tied to tech giant Amazon — into city limits.  After weeks of escalating public outrage over the lack of transparency around Project Blue, the council voted to end negotiations and remove the annexation and development agreement from […]

Asher Watkins, 52, of Texas died while tracking 1.3-ton Cape buffalo on a hunting trip in the country’s Limpopo province

Yes, they’re under pressure. But maybe a lot of these leaders kinda like what Trump’s doing. Just remember: They were defeated once before.

Advocates fear ‘tragic outcomes’ now that queer youth no longer have access to free specialized counseling under the 988 national hotline

Nothing Above Mids refers to a copypasta that originated on Twitter imagining a man getting interrogated in a court of law for allegedly smoking "loud" and

Maggie's digital garden filled with visual essays on programming, design, and anthropology

Design portfolio for Ana Monroe

The writer-director’s debut film earned acclaim and Oscar nods for its portrayal of loves lost and rekindled. Her follow-up sees Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans caught up in a romance about crossing the class divide

Local business owner Coleman Ferguson said it’s “silly” the state’s largest city still doesn’t have an arena worthy of a Beyoncé show or an NBA team.

There's a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden.

Experts predict changes to ‘food stamps’ program affecting millions of Americans will cause poverty and hunger to rise

Chongqing chicken like it's made in Chongqing is more numbing than hot and punctuated with pickle and crispy chicken skin

The journalist Karen Hao – who published an absolutely fantastic book about OpenAI called “Empire of AI” recently – coined (as far as I know) one of the best terms for describing modern “AI” systems: Everything Machines. “AI” systems are not framed as specific tools that solve specific problems in specific ways but just as […]

Three events that made Direct File possible.

NYC experimental live music calendar • noise, improv, jazz, new music, avant-electronics, weirdos • performance against corporate interests!

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