The Biggest Book News of the Week
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here were the biggest stories from last week.
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This Refurbished MacBook Pro Is More Affordable Than Ever During StackSocial’s Deal Days
https://www.pcmag.com/deals/this-refurbished-macbook-pro-is-more-affordable-than-ever-during-stacksocials?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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CLIMATE CHANGE 2025
"End Is Near"
Will Kabul become first big city without water by 2030?
Real life with real climate change!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GlobalWarming #climatechange #climatecrisis
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‘End is near’: Will Kabul become first big city without water by 2030?
The city of six million people could soon run out water, amid climate change, sanctions and governance failures.Ruchi Kumar (Al Jazeera)
Anima Rising. By Christopher Moore.
You are a formerly dead girl, fished out of a Vienna canal in 1911 by a horny Gustav Klimt, but you’ve lost your memory so he takes you to his friend, Freud, who isn’t much help but luckily several gods of the underworld offer guidance and it turns out you have superhuman strength ….then things get weird.
4 of 5 library cats 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛.
CW: sex, violence
@bookstodon #bookstodon #reading #art #vienna #death
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At least 4 fatally wounded in separate shootings overnight in Chicago
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/05/at-least-4-fatally-wounded-in-separate-shootings-overnight-in-chicago/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Award-winning CBBC trans series gets free UK re-release – here’s how to watch it
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Award-winning CBBC trans series gets free UK re-release – here’s how to watch it
Acclaimed trans kids drama First Day is to be made free to watch in the UK five years after it first aired on CBBC.Amelia Hansford (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
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North Korea has a new luxury beach resort. But the country isn't open to most tourists
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he wants the luxury resort on the eastern seacoast to become a "world destination," but the country has been reluctant to allow in foreign tourists.
#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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From Project Gutenberg:
Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet
by Anonymous
Get it at: gutenberg.org/ebooks/26113
Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet by Anonymous
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
Sönke Iwersen and Michael Verfürden offer a horrifying and thorough report about how impossible it has proven for survivors of people killed in Tesla car crashes to get information about why the car malfunctioned.
Tesla has extensive files. But it won't release information, apparently.
#ElonMusk #Tesla #DeathTraps #CoverUp #DesignFlaws
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‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing
Elon Musk is obsessive about the design of his supercars, right down to the disappearing door handles.Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
So all survivors are left with is knowing that their loved one died because the car sped up without any warning, or its emergency brakes activated without warning, or the car crashed and its occupants burned to death because the retractable door handles wouldn't permit emergency workers to open the doors and get them out of the cars.
#ElonMusk #Tesla #DeathTraps #CoverUp #DesignFlaws
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About those door handles: apparently Elon Musk likes the sleek look of retracted door handles, and that's why this problem exists. As for the people dying because of his stylistic preferences, well, they're just part of the experiment:
"The world is his lab. Everyone else is part of the experiment."
#ElonMusk #Tesla #DeathTraps #CoverUp #DesignFlaws
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Euro 2025: Spain thumps grieving Portugal to make statement
Spain showed why they are favorites to win Women's Euro 2025 by hammering Portugal 5-0 in their Group B opener on Thursday, as both teams paid tribute toBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Companies keep slashing jobs. How worried should workers be about AI replacing them?
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-07-05/workers-are-anxious-that-ai-will-take-their-jobs-amid-layoffs-how-worried-should-they-be?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Companies keep slashing jobs. How worried should workers be about AI replacing them?
Executives from Salesforce, Amazon, OpenAI and more have weighed in recently about how AI is affecting the job market.Queenie Wong (Los Angeles Times)
‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing
Elon Musk is obsessive about the design of his supercars, right down to the disappearing door handles.Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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‘Such a kind kid’: former neighbours and all Portugal grieve for Diogo Jota | Diogo Jota
Ana Oliveira can barely get through a sentence before breaking down in tears. She has lived most of her life across the street from Diogo Jota’s family homeBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing
Elon Musk is obsessive about the design of his supercars, right down to the disappearing door handles.Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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The French city of Lyon is dropping #Microsoft software in favor of #OpenSource alternatives. It doesn't want to depend on proprietary, closed-source software, and it doesn't want to depend on *American* software. It doesn't want "potential [US] governmental surveillance."
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PS: It seems clear that #Trump is playing a role here. While he uses tariffs to boost American companies, he scares foreign buyers away from American companies, at least software companies that collect user data. He's creating a #TikTok problem for American software. Microsoft didn't help itself on this front by giving $1 million to the Trump inauguration.
BTW, many other US closed-source software companies gave $1m to the Trump inauguration, among them Adobe, Amazon, Google, Meta, and Perplexity.
French City of Lyon Kicks Out Microsoft
Microsoft faces growing rejection in Europe whereas open source software sees growing adaption.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
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Update. "#Austria's military has switched from #MicrosoftOffice to #LibreOffice. The move was all about digital sovereignty, not cost savings. Other governments are moving away from Microsoft to protect their citizens' privacy."
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#OpenSource #Privacy #Surveillance #USPol #USPolitics
This European military just ditched Microsoft for open-source LibreOffice - here's why
It's not about the cost savings, either. Many government organizations are replacing Microsoft software for a more important reason.Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
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Interesting read. Thanks for sharing.
Like the Austrian Military has successfully done, I hope that when other sizeable organizations migrate to LibreOffice (which is fantastic), that they still maintain a reasonable budget for funding FOSS donations.
(edited to correct my misunderstanding of the article, as posted by @jedbrown )
@adventure_tense
Yes. The article shows how they've been practicing good stewardship:
> Austria isn't just replacing Microsoft software. Unlike typical public-sector and corporate migrations, Austria's military has heavily invested in LibreOffice development itself. The armed forces have been funding the creation of new features and improvements that are now included in public releases. These additions, ranging from improved slideshow editing to better handling of pivot tables, have been rolled into the latest version of LibreOffice.
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US military doesn't trust M$ either:
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Web site: spi.dod.mil/lipose.htm (not active) Origin: USA Category: Specialist Desktop environment: Xfce Architecture: x86, x86_64 Based on: Thinstation…pavroo (ArchiveOS)
> Austria's military has heavily invested in LibreOffice development itself.
It's buggy as hell. So they don't have much choice. Maybe they will succeed in getting a free replacement for MS office that works. 🛸
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International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source softwareMaximilian Henning (Euractiv)
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UN Ditches Google for Taking Form Submissions, Opts for an Open Source Solution Instead
The United Nations opts for an open source alternative to Google Forms.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
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Update. The German state of Schleswig-Holstein is migrating from #MicrosoftOffice to #LibreOffice and expects to save €15 million in 2026 alone.
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#Germany #Microsoft #OpenSource
Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source
Schleswig-Holstein's migration to LibreOffice reaches 80% completion, with a one-time €9 million investment on cards for 2026.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
Update. The Danish government is moving away from #Microsoft products to #OpenSource alternatives.
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Denmark Begins its Exit from Microsoft — and This is Just the Beginning
The move is part of a government-wide effort to reduce dependency on Microsoft software. The traffic department's move is just the beginning.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
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