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    Dead Ends is a fun, macabre medical history for kids

    Thanks for this article! I read The Butchering Art a few years ago and thought it was great. This one probably would've been too scary for me as a kid (I was a sensitive child), but I'm ordering it for our library anyway. Hopefully it starts some less-squeamish kid down a scientific path.
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    Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for Kagi

    I've been paying for Kagi for about a year, and I'm a fan! I share the author's disappointment with their inclusion of AI, but they've respected my choice to never interact with it, so I'm willing to be forgiving on that front. I ought to spend some time learning how to use more of Kagi's...
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    TikTok trend sees kids setting Chromebooks on fire; at least one kid hospitalized

    Can confirm: a friend is an IT guy at a Vermont high school. They had an incident just a few days ago where a kid panicked and threw their smoking Chromebook into a toilet. Apparently the windows in the bathroom were screwed shut, so they couldn't air it out... My friend has developed a deep...
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    Gaming news site Polygon gutted by massive layoffs amid sale to Valnet

    I subscribe to Aftermath, but I don't usually feel like it's worth the price they're asking. There's a lot of anime/TV content that's of no interest to me; they'll put out a small handful of articles per week that I actually want to read, which makes the $5/month hard to justify. Still, I'm...
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    Microsoft is putting privacy-endangering Recall back into Windows 11

    I am a non-technical person. I use my PC mostly for gaming and web browsing, and I have very little interest in tinkering with software or introducing any unnecessary friction to my computing experience. That said, all the bullshit with Windows lately has driven even me to switch to Linux, and I...