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I had missed that Automattic’s renewed push into education comes with a free .blog or .art domain name. It’s just for one year, but still great to get students thinking about owning their writing. I wish I could offer that.

Amazon's investments are boosting the Grand Canyon State's economy while creating opportunities for those who call Arizona home.

Post-pandemic vaccination rates of US kindergarteners continue to fall and “nonmedical exemptions” based on “personal or religious beliefs” jumped 0.8% in just 1 year.

“Tuesday’s primary punctuates just how much Florida, once the nation’s largest swing state, has been transformed into a solidly Republican bastion,” the New York Times reports. “Florida’s electoral contests are no longer the nail-biters that led to past recounts and countless late-night jokes. Its politics now reflect how Republicans have consolidated power in President Trump’s […]

Fox: Big home renovations are being put on hold. People are doing fewer projects, and the projects are costing more.

A police officer who spoke out against Flock cameras was subjected to 5 internal investigations in 2 years after he contacted a reporter about the dangers of mass surveillance.

It’s All Part of Retribution on Blue States The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court ruling...

“Data is the new oil.” It’s the metaphor that won’t die, though for the next little bit, I’ll do my part to advance its expiration date. Yesterday came news that Google purchased the entire data corpus of Spirit Airlines, which is selling its assets in a bankruptcy process. Google isn’t planning on launching an airline … Continue reading "Data. Is. Not. Oil. Can It Be A Public Good?"

Buy now, pay later lenders are allowing customers to take out loans to pay for utilities, phone bills, health insurance, and rent.

“Middle Eastern energy giants are scrambling to move more oil into stockpiles safely beyond the turbulent Persian Gulf region, as a prolonged conflict forces exporters and their biggest customers to rethink how to safeguard supplies,” the New York Times reports.

“Russians are pulling billions from the country’s banking system ― a record cash outflow amid intensifying Ukrainian drone attacks and rising fear that the Kremlin could start seizing deposits to finance its war,” the Washington Post reports.

“Meta platforms recently ran ads for an AI porn-generation tool that seemingly encouraged users to create deepfaked videos resembling female U.S. politicians, despite the company’s policies against ads containing sexual material,” Wired reports. “It’s the latest in a series of failures by Meta to keep advertisements for tools that produce nonconsensual intimate imagery off its […]