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Would you recommend the UGREEN NASync DH2300 as my first NAS for content streaming?

reddit.com/r/HomeNAS/comments/1r6t15x/would_you_recommend_the_ugreen_nasync_dh2300_as/?share_id=ZH-eyN0Qz0NN8REkwZk2Z&utm_content=1&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=2

It doesn’t natively support docker, you need to download and sideload from the DH4300 page. Don’t know or care what docker is, 2300 is okay.

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Tour guides lose business as D.C.’s reputation and landscape change under Trump

washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/10/05/tour-guides-feel-pain-trump-alters-dcs-reputation-landscape/

Guides say bookings have plummeted in 2026 amid renovations, closings and a charged political climate.

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506 U.S. Citizens Detained

projects.propublica.org/american-citizens-detained-dhs-civil-rights/

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administration.

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Teen Left Stranded on a Cliff After Letting AI Plan Hike

gizmodo.com/teen-left-stranded-on-a-cliff-after-letting-ai-plan-hike-2000821835

A 16-year-old hiker had to be rescued after using AI to plan his route.

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Activists Smash Windows, Graffiti Day Hall ‘for Jane Doe’

cornellsun.com/article/2026/10/huc9wcodqljf

A group of anonymous activists vandalized Day Hall early Monday morning by smashing windows, writing graffiti and covering up a camera in protest of the University’s response to the alleged 2024 Chi Phi gang rape.

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[Atp] Re: Draft "at" URI Scheme Document (legacy not-actually-URI version)

mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/atp/SwNFdkT4yjcXZqqyVjDuX8NpfTs/

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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t | Science | AAAS

science.org/content/article/how-did-rosalind-franklin-miss-helix-her-iconic-dna-image-she-didn-t

Rosalind Franklin’s photograph 51 (right) revealed DNA’s helical structure. But she had already recognized it in an earlier, flawed image, photograph 49 (left).

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Donate Books App for iOS and Android

help.archive.org/help/donate-books-app-for-ios-and-android/

This article will help users install and use the Internet Archive’s smart phone app for determining which books we want to add to our library.

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Apple Has Far-Reaching Plans To Block Hundreds Of Programmatic Data Companies From iOS

adexchanger.com/privacy/apple-has-far-reaching-plans-to-block-hundreds-of-programmatic-data-companies-from-ios/

Oh, what a tangled WebKit we weave. Earlier this week, AdExchanger reported that Apple’s iOS 27 update from two weeks ago quietly blocked a handful of programmatic data players – including The Trade Desk and its Unified ID 2.0 initiative, LiveRamp, ID5, Permutive and Audigent – from collecting data or serving ads on Safari. (They […]

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How a plan to turn the Spokane Spokesman-Review into “The People’s Paper” ended in a newsroom revolt

niemanlab.org/2026/10/how-a-plan-to-turn-the-spokane-spokesman-review-into-the-peoples-paper-ended-in-a-newsroom-revolt/

Newsroom staffers say that concerns about Rob Curley’s leadership festered until his August suspension — weeks before the paper was set to transfer to his nonprofit.

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ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

niemanlab.org/2026/10/chatgpt-is-adding-real-cartoonists-signatures-to-fake-new-yorker-cartoons/

OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.

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David Zaslav Urges WB Staff to Move Forward as He Bids Farewell Ahead of Paramount Merger Closing

thewrap.com/culture-lifestyle/culture/david-zaslav-bids-farewell-warner-bros-paramount-merger/

Warner Bros. Discovery Chief David Zaslav said goodbye to staffers in a video message on the eve of the company's merger with Skydance.

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Amazon’s New Kindle Lineup Is Lighter, Thinner, and More Metal

wired.com/story/amazon-kindle-paperwhite-colorsoft-2026-refresh/#intcid=recommendations_amazon-prime-day-boosted-recommendation-wired-us_761b14db-bc07-42ce-b7cf-233ce68fb7e9_modern-bert_fallback_popular4-2_bktb

Ahead of the Kindle’s 20th anniversary next year, Amazon is refreshing its entire range of e-readers with fresh colors, an aluminum build, and a new frame design that’s both thinner and lighter.

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Keurig’s New Alta System Could Signal the End for the Disposable K-Cup

wired.com/story/keurig-alta-coffee-brewer/#intcid=_wired-right-rail_2eeedfb8-d78c-41c3-949b-848a48a88c19_popular4-2

Keurig is ready to ditch the K-Cup with a compostable and plastic- and aluminum-free coffee pod, but the price is steep.

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Why No One Wants to Date Tech Bros

wired.com/story/tech-bros-dating-palantir-tesla/#intcid=recommendations_amazon-prime-day-boosted-recommendation-wired-us_761b14db-bc07-42ce-b7cf-233ce68fb7e9_modern-bert_fallback_text2vec1_bktb

Once seen as nerdy but harmless innovators, men in tech are now widely regarded as red-pilled Elon Musk wannabes. It’s made getting laid a whole lot harder.

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Elon Musk’s Exes Are the Most Damning Part of a Massive New Documentary

wired.com/story/elon-musks-exes-are-the-most-damning-part-of-a-massive-new-documentary/

Interviews with Justine Wilson and Ashley St. Clair in the nearly four-hour-long “Musk” paint the world’s richest man as capricious and cruel even toward those closest to him.

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John Wilson’s Concrete Jungle Where Dreams Are Made Of

hearingthings.co/john-wilson-history-of-concrete-review-music/

The documentarian’s brilliant new film “The History of Concrete” is actually about life as a working artist in NYC.

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Heated Rivalry is at the Center of Fanfic’s AI Reckoning

fansplaining.com/heated-rivalry-is-at-the-center-of-fanfics-ai-reckoning/

A controversial anonymous document exposing Claude remnants in fics has collided with a fandom culture of production at hyper-speed.

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How Fans Make Fictional Languages Real

fansplaining.com/how-fans-make-fictional-languages-real/

Na’vi, Klingon, and other conlangs get more use IRL than they ever have onscreen.

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Blondshell captures complexities of growing up on stirring new single ‘Fur Elise’

nme.com/news/music/blondshell-releases-stirring-new-single-fur-elise-3963453

Blondshell has shared the stirring single ‘Fur Elise’ – taken from her upcoming album ‘Violins’. Check it out here.

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My Rape, the Cornell Case—and Why We Need Better Approaches to Teaching How Consent Works

thenation.com/article/society/cornell-rape-case-sex-education/?utm_campaign=SproutSocial&utm_content=The%20Nation%20Magazine&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

I tried to process the experience of being raped by disassociating. We have to show our kids a better way.

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The trippy Mononoke trilogy is some of the most adventurous filmmaking Netflix has ever platformed

avclub.com/mononoke-the-movie-netflix-trilogy-curse-of-the-serpent-trippy-adventurous-anime

A feminist, period-piece crime anime unfolds over three overwhelmingly psychedelic parts in Netflix's Mononoke The Movie.

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Public Radio Station Forced to Call Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America”

theintercept.com/2026/10/02/gulf-america-university-alabama-birmingham-wbhm/

Rather than stand up for editorial independence, the University of Alabama at Birmingham is rolling over to Trump and his “Gulf of America.”

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Freelance Solidarity Project

nwu.org/freelance-solidarity-project/?ref=fansplaining.com

Freelance Solidarity Project Mission To improve the lives of freelance digital media workers by improving their working conditions. As the industry becomes increasingly unstable, we must build a community to protect each other, fight isolation and alienation, and experience the gains of collective bargaining. FSP organizers manage the Freelance Rate-Sharing Database and take collective action through campaigns that focus

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Lessons From a Heated Media Rivalry

fansplaining.com/lessons-from-a-heated-media-rivalry/

How we learned that the New York Times has a Fansplaining account.

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How you can demand better media coverage as the midterms loom

margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/how-you-can-demand-better-media-coverage?r=9u4kw&triedRedirect=true

Examples of what is working and what must stop. Plus: some great reporting and two scary developments

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Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family

wired.com/story/muse-creates-detailed-profiles-of-all-your-friends-and-family/

Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.

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Ryan Plays Pokémon: Ranking every evil plan in mainline Pokémon games based on how much they would annoy me

skyboxcritics.com/2026/08/05/ryan-plays-pokemon-ranking-every-evil-plan-in-mainline-pokemon-games-based-on-how-much-they-would-annoy-me/

Sure, the villains in Pokémon games are all "bad guys," but which ones would personally inconvenience me the most?

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Consider The Woodchipper

skyboxcritics.com/2026/10/04/consider-the-woodchipper/

A response to "What Do We Do With Jacob Gellar?"

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What Do We Do With Jacob Geller?

epiloguegaming.com/what-do-we-do-with-jacob-geller/

Earlier this week, a friend noticed Jacob Geller’s book, How A Game Lives, sitting amongst my living room shelves. Under almost any other circumstances, this would have been an exciting invitation for me to...