Trump's Son-In-Law Backs Out of Paramount's Takeover Bid (Vic Verbalaitis/The Daily Beast)
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Trump’s Son-In-Law Backs Out of Paramount’s Takeover Bid
Jared Kushner’s firm will no longer back Paramount’s takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery.Vic Verbalaitis (The Daily Beast)
GREY BEARD. Earthen jugs formerly used in public house for drawing ale: they had the figure of a man with a large beard stamped on them; whence probably they took the name: Dutch earthen jugs, used for smuggling gin on the coasts of Essex and Suffolk, are called grey beards.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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'You don't have to do it alone': how US cities are helping each other resist ICE (Whitney Bauck/The Guardian)
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‘You don’t have to do it alone’: how US cities are helping each other resist ICE
From LA to Charlotte, organizers are learning from others’ strategies to protect residents amid federal crackdownsWhitney Bauck (The Guardian)
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Super Science Stories vol. 2, no. 2 (January 1941)
That's a terrific explosion, rather like a classic Jack Kirby drawing with the rocks against the fire colours. Somehow the angle of his leg behind her torso strikes me as wrong, it makes things confusing.
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Super Science Stories v02n02 [1941-01] (-ifc) (slpn edit from pdf) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Upgraded edit (in CBR format) of the previously posted PDF version, with front cover.CONTENTS:Super Science Stories [v2 #2, January 1941] (15¢, 128pp+,...Internet Archive
Todays 100+ #billionaires according to #Bloomberg:
#1: Elon Musk - $648B - USA/Tech
#2: Larry Page - $264B - USA/Tech
#3: Jeff Bezos - $246B - USA/Tech
#4: Sergey Brin - $245B - USA/Tech
#5: Larry Ellison - $243B - USA/Tech
#6: Mark Zuckerberg - $232B - USA/Tech
#7: Bernard Arnault - $205B - France/Consumer
#8: Steve Ballmer - $166B - USA/Tech
#9: Jensen Huang - $155B - USA/Tech
#10: Warren Buffett - $150B - USA/Diversified
#11: Michael Dell - $141B - USA/Tech
#12: Jim Walton - $140B - USA/Retail
#13: Rob Walton - $137B - USA/Retail
#14: Alice Walton - $136B - USA/Retail
#15: Amancio Ortega - $132B - Spain/Retail
#16: Bill Gates - $117B - USA/Tech
#17: Carlos Slim - $111B - Mexico/Diversified
#18: Mukesh Ambani - $105B - India/Energy
Top 10: $2.55 Trillion
Total: $3.57 Trillion
Full Top 500: bloomberg.com/billionaires
Linux Exposing Support For Lenovo ThinkPads Being Able To Detect Hardware Damage
Newer Lenovo ThinkPads are adding the ability to detect and report varying degrees of hardware damage. The Lenovo ThinkPad ACPI driver for Linux is being adapted for being able to communicate said hardware damage to user-space Linux software...
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Opus 1.6 Audio Codec Adds New Machine Learning Functionality
Version 1.6 of libopus as the library for the open-source Opus audio codec is now available. Opus 1.6 brings new machine learning "ML" based features in building atop the machine learning features initially added to Opus 1.5...
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NEW | 3 in 4 Republicans Under 45 Say They Prefer US Fund Health Care Over Israel
A new poll by IMEU Policy Project, conducted by YouGov, reveals a sharp generational divide among Republicans over U.S. support for Israel amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Among Republicans under 45, 65% favor redirecting funds from Israel to domestic programs like healthcare, rising to 74% among younger voters. Many also back using taxpayer money for housing the unhoused and universal school meals.
The survey highlights growing discomfort with U.S. military aid to Israel: 53% oppose renewing the current $38 billion 10-year weapons deal, and 51% reject a proposed 20-year $76 billion agreement. Netanyahu’s popularity plummets among younger Republicans (+2) compared to older voters (+40), reflecting generational discontent.
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #Netanyahu
Johnson picks sides (Hans Nichols/Axios)
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Even Trump’s chief of staff was ‘aghast’ at Elon Musk’s deadly USAID cuts
“He knew it would be horrifying to others.”
Even Trump’s chief of staff was ‘aghast’ at Elon Musk’s deadly USAID cuts
President Donald Trump’s chief of staff Susie Wiles criticized Elon Musk and DOGE in a series of Vanity Fair interviews.Tina Nguyen (The Verge)
New entry of AI-generated #comics and #jokes added to our #website:
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From Project Gutenberg:
Max HavelaarOf de koffiveilingen der Nederlandsche Handelsmaatschappy
by Multatuli
Get it at: gutenberg.org/ebooks/11024
Max Havelaar by Multatuli
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
‘Select assets’ of the home arcade machine company are being acquired by another toy brand.
Arcade1Up isn’t dead, maybe
Toy company Basic Fun is acquiring “select assets” of Arcade1Up, according to a statement. Last week, a rumor surfaced that Arcade1Up would be “closing operations.”Jay Peters (The Verge)
Sable Island: The Feral Kingdom
Sable Island is a wild, 42-km sandbar in the Atlantic. One of Canada's most remote parks, it's famed for hundreds of feral horses descended from animals left in the 18th century. Known as the 'Graveyard of the Atlantic' for its many shipwrecks, it's also home to the world's largest grey seal colony. Access is highly restricted to protect this unique ecosystem. #Canada #SableIsland #NovaScotia #WildHorses 🇨🇦
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Nonprofit groups offer legal assistance to U.S. troops amid debate over boat strikes (Dan De Luce/NBC News)
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Nonprofit groups offer legal assistance to U.S. troops amid debate over boat strikes
Two nonprofit groups launched an ad campaign offering confidential advice to help U.S. troops who believe they may have received unlawful orders.Dan De Luce (NBC News)
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