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    Apple releases iOS, iPadOS, macOS 26.4 with a long list of medium-size tweaks

    Guessing you meant iPhone 13 mini. If there was a 14 mini, I would buy it immediately.
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    Anna’s Archive loses .org domain, says suspension likely unrelated to Spotify piracy

    Thanks for the thoughtful response. I suspect that you and @Corporate_Goon could have a productive conversation with each other, given your partially overlapping backgrounds. I'll note this, though: neither @Corporate_Goon nor I made the explicit claim that theft is inherently wrong. Calling...
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    Anna’s Archive loses .org domain, says suspension likely unrelated to Spotify piracy

    Circumstantial ad hominem. Having educational degrees (expertise) in a given topic qualifies a person to talk about it with more objective authority, not less. Also, there is never a "completely objective party", so your comment is truly unproductive to the conversation.
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    Anna’s Archive loses .org domain, says suspension likely unrelated to Spotify piracy

    I suspect the reason you're getting downvoted is emotional, not rational, since no one has actually tried to reply and refute your statements. I'm guessing folks can't refute your logic (it's theft) but part of them wants to root for the robber (ala Robin Hood) even if the robber is potentially...
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    2025 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for macroscale quantum tunneling

    Did it tunnel into another environment or beyond the environment? (for those not following: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM )
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    White House unveils sweeping plan to “win” global AI race through deregulation

    I appreciated your full comment. I'm excerpting the beginning and end of it (bolded text added by me) because I'm noticing that I agree to an extent with this idea that not everyone deserves a voice in a given discussion and that, with any metric being used as measurement, some people are in...
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    New “AppleCare One” plan bundles three extended warranties for $20 a month

    I chuckled—you make a good point here. But also, the tax rate on that stock sale would skew the numbers considerably.
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    The Last of Us co-creator Neil Druckmann exits HBO show

    The original game writers leaving, with Craig Mazin remaining? That's like George R.R. Martin's writing presence leaving Game of Thrones and having only David Benioff and Weiss alone at the helm. We've seen how this plays out. I'll just leave this insightful video essay that covers how Craig...
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    Researchers get viable mice by editing DNA from two sperm

    Thank you for the coverage of this interesting subject matter, John. A couple editing notes for the article: Typo in subtitle of article. This is an incomplete sentence. After noticing both of these issues while reading the article, I paused and (out of curiosity) decided to paste the full...
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    Apple legend Jony Ive takes control of OpenAI’s design future

    It really is unsettling. I think a big part of it is that Ive is showing real emotion in his eyes (and affection by leaning toward Altman), while Altman is...not showing emotion in his eyes. The emotions on Altman's face feels performative, like he wants to be perceived well but isn't showing...
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    Senate approves Ted Cruz plan to block Wi-Fi hotspots for schoolchildren

    More access to information = censorship. Got it. Freedom is Slavery.
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    Flashy exotic birds can actually glow in the dark

    I currently see it in the article.
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    Science at risk: The funding pause is more damaging than you might think

    Emphasis added mine. I do agree with you that coddling to the far right is pointless, feckless, and that the left should be fighting with teeth, not sitting paralyzed as the pre-Hitlerian climate continues to grow. The behavior of the current administration isn't just ignorant, it's malicious...
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    Science at risk: The funding pause is more damaging than you might think

    Bolded emphasis added by me in that quote from the article. From an outside perspective, this is a problem I regularly see on the American left. In this example, the researchers used "equitable" as the rationale and "good for everyone" as the side effect. If the researchers were to use "good...
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    Big landlord settles with US, will cooperate in price-fixing investigation

    Oh, I see now. So you are yourself a business owner, one who keeps saying that all businesses do this. (projection?) And who is aggressively defending businesses that do do this, and loudly downplaying any effects of the collusion. I'm realizing that you likely participate in similar...
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    Big landlord settles with US, will cooperate in price-fixing investigation

    You may very well be right about housing supply / zoning being an even bigger variable than the collusion that this article is about. My intuition says you are, and you're not the first to bring it up. But people aren't hearing and agreeing with you, because you're (1) presenting the housing...
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    Big landlord settles with US, will cooperate in price-fixing investigation

    You are getting downvoted to oblivion because you've blatantly ruled out any other reasons for prices to go up and down beyond supply and demand. For instance, look up the definition of collusion. An example of collusion provided by Google: "Two or more companies that normally compete with...
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    Systems used by courts and govs across the US riddled with vulnerabilities

    Guessing that should be "state of Georgia". Good and important article overall, thanks for writing it.
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    Soon, you’ll be able to play StarCraft and StarCraft II on Game Pass

    A correction for this part of the article: The original Starcraft and the expansion, Brood War, have both been fully free-to-play, including their full single-player campaigns, for years now. You can go here to play the full game + campaigns right now...