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Little-Known #Gambling #Tax Could Upend Boom In #US #Betting

By Stephen K. Cooper

After a record year for U.S. commercial gaming, a little-known tax on #phantom #income in last year's Republican reconciliation law has spurred bipartisan repeal efforts amid concerns it could alter betting behavior and drain state and local economies built on gambling-related tourism.
[via Law360]

WINGS_radio 9h ago

Robert Reich 18h ago

WINGS_radio 9h ago

internetarchive 17h ago

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Publishers vs. preservation: what happens when the web can’t be archived? Find out on PRESERVING THE WEB IN THE AGE OF AI, a LIVE Future Knowledge #podcast recording 🎙️

Join this timely conversation on AI, access & our digital memory with Mike Masnick, Mark Graham, & Kendra Albert.

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WINGS_radio 13h ago

In the age of undetectable #cheating, #professors should aim to supplant the role of #ChatGPT, inviting students to come to us to help develop ideas, share their research load, and shape their writing into proper philosophical prose — essentially interrupting the mechanism that pushes #students to utilize #chatbots in the first place. I argue that this is best achieved by assigning class-wide essays that invite #collaboration.
- excerpt from philosopher Tom Kaspers' essay in the Boston Globe

WINGS_radio 1d ago

Dispatch From the Climate-Deniers Conference Where Trump's EPA Chief Delivered the Keynote Address
Lee Zeldin's presence shows that these people "are in charge now."

- report by Dharna Noor

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/14/dc-conference-climate-deniers-trump-epa-chief?utm_source=climate-desk&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=climate-desk-newsletter-04-19-2026

#climate #denial #conference #Trump #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency

Inside a jubilant DC conference where ‘the climate deniers are in charge now’

Trump’s EPA chief Lee Zeldin’s presence shows how much influence climate deniers now have, experts say

The Guardian

WINGS_radio 3d ago

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/24/europe-united-trump-dwight-eisenhower-america-wanted/

This Is the Europe Dwight Eisenhower Wanted

Donald Trump is actively hostile to the united continent that Washington once demanded.

Foreign Policy

WINGS_radio 3d ago

Via email from Foreign Policy:
For a #commodity #essential to everything from pharmaceuticals to agriculture and mining, #sulfur rarely makes headlines. But the #Iran #war is wreaking havoc on global trade of sulfur, a #byproduct from the #oil and gas sectors. Converted into #sulfuric acid—known as the “king of chemicals”—it powers operations across the #fertilizer, #metals, and #pharmaceutical sectors. Which means that any disruptions to the sulfur market reverberate far beyond it.

WINGS_radio 3d ago

Newly chosen leader of Canada's New Democratic Party ( #NDP ) urges Prime Minister Carney to #ban #unfair #pricing driven by #AI

In his first Parliament Hill news conference #AviLewis presented an initiative to ban the unfair corporate practice of charging different prices to different people based on AI-harvested private information.

https://rabble.ca/politics/canadian-politics/avi-lewis-urges-carney-to-ban-unfair-pricing-driven-by-ai/?utm_source=Newsletter