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The $200 Billion Gamble: #BillGates’s Plan to Wind Down His Foundation
In a wide-ranging interview, he explains his decision — amid the Trump admin’s assault on #ForeignAid — to accelerate the end of his giving.
by David Wallace-Wells
Today the #GatesFoundation celebrates its 25th anniversary by announcing its plans to close up shop.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/magazine/bill-gates-foundation-closing-2045.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Fk8.mBIv.zs6mjh2Ut3w8&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p
What a beautiful reality we have, where there are so many different ways to be human, so many ways for people to become themselves.
When you get right down to it, becoming oneself is a human right. Forcing others into the shapes you prefer is oppression.
In this time of search engine decline and AI flooding the net with trash...
...it's time to bring back curated information. Expert reseachers and tomes of information.
This is the age of the librarian.
It is completely reasonable at this point to ask whether congressional Democrats have even a shadow of a clue about anything.
They aren't an opposition party. They are a feckless nothingburger of a party, cowering in the corner as Trump breaks multiple laws.
They told me "information wants to be free." I kinda liked that.
Then they started getting stock shares and decided it was just my information that wants to be free, for them. I didn't like that.
The Federal Trade Commission announced a proposed settlement agreeing that General Motors and its subsidiary, OnStar, will be banned from selling geolocation and driver behavior data to credit agencies for five years. That’s good news for G.M. owners. Every car owner and driver deserves to be...
A web developer has created and released an infinitely generating "tar pit" designed to trap AI training bots in an endless maze: "Just me unleashing shear unadulterated rage at how things are going"
https://www.404media.co/developer-creates-infinite-maze-to-trap-ai-crawlers-in/
Hundreds of police license plate cameras are misconfigured to stream unencrypted to the open internet.
A privacy researcher took these streams and turned them into a real-time database that tracks car movements & information, highlighting how invasive this tech is