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The rise and fall of Usenet: How the original social media platform came to be

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Johannes Geyer/Getty ImagesLong before Facebook existed, or even before the Internet, there was Usenet. Usenet was...
Johannes Geyer/Getty ImagesLong before Facebook existed, or even before the Internet, there was Usenet. Usenet was the first social network. Now, with Google Groups abandoning Usenet, this oldest of all social networks is doomed to disappear. Google declared: Starting on February 22, 2024, you can no longer use Goog...
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Seven basic rules for causal inference | Peder M. Isager

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The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud - Bert Hubert's writings

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Scientists research man missing 90% of his brain who leads a normal life | CBC Radio

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This story was first published July 14, 2016.When a 44-year-old man from France started experiencing weakness...
This story was first published July 14, 2016.When a 44-year-old man from France started experiencing weakness in his leg, he went to the hospital. That's when doctors told him he was missing most of his brain. The man's skull was full of liquid, with just a thin layer of brain tissue left. The condition is known as ...
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What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? - ~food

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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? - ~games

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Why do I keep getting logged out? - ~tildes

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Erling Haaland: Manchester City striker's record is like 'Ronaldo and Messi'

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Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of August 19 - ~news

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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of August 19 - ~news

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Self-hosting a podcast server - ~tech

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Sleep Kicks - Evangeline (official video)

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music
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Are there any actual science shows still out there? - ~science

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She Faked Her Chimp's Death. Then Things Went Apeshit

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T onia Haddix is nearly in tears. It’s been only a few days since officials showed...
T onia Haddix is nearly in tears. It’s been only a few days since officials showed up to the exotic-animal broker’s Missouri home on June 2, after PETA received a tip that Tonka, a Hollywood movie-star chimp in his thirties that Haddix claimed had died in May 2021, was, in fact, alive. The 52-year-old had blatantly ...
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Try Guys Try Firefighting

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comedy
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Google threatened tech influencers unless they ‘preferred’ the Pixel

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Could Britain's soaring taxes push energy companies to Norway?

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UK taxes on oil and gas profits have risen from 40% to about 78% in the...
UK taxes on oil and gas profits have risen from 40% to about 78% in the past three years, prompting several energy companies to think about pulling out of the country. ADVERTISEMENTNorth Sea gas company Serica Energy says it is considering pulling out of Britain and look at establishing itself in Nordic countries su...

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Monopoly Round-Up: Price Gouging vs Price Fixing vs Price Controls

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Transparency and Control in Consumer Data Use | Microsoft Copilot Blog

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Since launching our new generative AI experiences in products like Copilot, we’ve received a tremendous amount...
Since launching our new generative AI experiences in products like Copilot, we’ve received a tremendous amount of product feedback both on what you’ve enjoyed and what you want more of in the future. We have consistently heard that you expect the next wave of AI experiences to feel seamlessly personalized, effortles...
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Circassian genocide - Wikipedia

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19th-century genocide in the Caucasus The Circassian genocide,[10][11] or Tsitsekun,[a][b] was the Russian Empire's systematic mass...
19th-century genocide in the Caucasus The Circassian genocide,[10][11] or Tsitsekun,[a][b] was the Russian Empire's systematic mass murder, ethnic cleansing, and expulsion of 95–97%[c][d] of the Circassian population, resulting in 1 to 1.5 million deaths[15][e] during the final stages of the Russo-Circassian War.[16...
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Digital Apartheid in Gaza: Unjust Content Moderation at the Request of Israel’s Cyber Unit

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Deeplinks Blog by David Greene | August 14, 2024 The through-line of these cases is a...
Deeplinks Blog by David Greene | August 14, 2024 The through-line of these cases is a critically important principle that sets limits on government’s ability to control the online speech of people who use social media, as well as the social media sites themselves: internet users’ First Amendment rights to speak on s...
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Smith & Thell - We Were in Love (Official Music Video)

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music
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Buy burned land - ~enviro

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Electrostatic Motors Reach the Macro Scale

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electric motors electromagnetism electrostatic effect rare earth elements
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