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https://www.france24.com/en/culture/20260604-french-iranian-author-marjane-satrapi-author-of-persepolis-dies-at-56 I'm sad that Marjane Satrapi has died.
I have often come across the quote below. Before reposting it, I wanted to verify it. And I found out it's from a 2005 Salon interview https://www.salon.com/2005/04/24/satrapi_2/ -- during the time I worked at Salon! A neat coincidence for me.
Meta Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram. It Worked.
Now is a good time to remember that Meta has announced that it is laying off 10% of its workforce, including 2,000 people just today, while going in on a "AI will replace workers" strategy.
A jury found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll.
Now, the DOJ is investigating her.
This is exactly why survivors stay silent.
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Libraries are more than buildings filled with books. They are an interconnected public network built on preservation and sharing.
“If we don’t have the one you want, we can get it for you,” is a promise shaped generations of readers through interlibrary loan, public access, and librarians committed to making knowledge available to everyone.
3/3 Kahle argues that libraries help create an informed citizenry by preserving books, films, music, and historical records across generations.
“Our evolving digital age can be our next Carnegie moment or it can be a Library of Alexandria moment. It is up to us.”
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"Just put your telescopes in space!" say the techbros. 73% (!!!) of a new space telescope's images already have satellite streaks in them.
“Erin Brockovich, the environmental activist whose name and work you may recognize from the Oscar-winning movie Erin Brockovich, has created a tool to map data centers across the country, along with a form for people to report data centers and their impacts in their community.”
Erin Brockovich, the environmental activist whose name and work you may recognize from the Oscar-winning movie Erin Brockovich, has created a tool to map data centers across the country, along with a form for people to report data centers and their impacts in their community. "The RACE to b…
This week the UN backed a resolution from Vanuatu, a country losing land to rising seas, urging governments to speed up climate action and treat these commitments as binding duties under international law.
8 countries voted against it.
Against an appeal to save a planet whose deterioration threatens every living thing on it.
Who are these countries? What do they have in common?
I will list them 👇 one by one, and leave the conclusions to you.
Lukasz Olejnik
Sumana Harihareswara
nixCraft 🐧
evacide
Andrea Junker 
internetarchive
Prof. Sam Lawler
Sam Litzinger
The Climate Historian