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What Americans Think “Free Speech” Actually Means
Knight Foundation: Free speech for all? Poll reveals Americans’ views on free expression post-2020
Most people believe other groups have an easier time exercising their free speech rights without consequence than they do. For example, Democrats see conservatives as having an easier time, while Republicans believe minority groups, such as Black, Hispanic, Asian, or
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The World’s First Multi-Chain Gaming Console That Will Never Exist
Polium: Polium One: The World’s First Multi-Chain Gaming Console
Polium is building the world’s first multi-chain gaming console. The console will be built by the community. It will be capable of running games that are built on different blockchains. Users will be able to play games that are on ImmutableX, Solana,
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Uniquely American
On this Fourth of July, I found this Reddit thread fascinating: What's an incredibly american thing americans don't realize is american? Check it out, but a few standouts to me here:
* Prescription drug commercials. These are like half of the ads during some shows here in the U.S.
* Extremely long
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Nintendo Finally Got Third Parties Right
Chris Brandrick: Persona finally comes to Switch (properly), plus Nintendo's Joy-Con repair subscription
Now, this week we finally got that Direct we were all waiting for. It may not have been a 'proper' Direct (like those we typically see in June), but nonetheless I thought it was rather good. I
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Enjoy the Good Old Days of Game Pass
Xbox Series X: long term review
Game pass has literally been a game changer and I’ve played so many more games I wouldn’t have looked at before. Aside from buying the occasional plane in flight simulator the console hasn’t cost me any additional money. Looking at the PS5 I can’t see
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Stranger Things Posters are Going Hard
I love this series of posters Stranger Things is posting to Instagram recently. Some of them are a little spoiler-
The First New Sport I've Fallen In Love With Since Childhood
As a kid, I enjoyed basically every sport I came across. I like baseball, basketball, football, soccer, golf, and hockey,
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Google Fonts, Bunny Fonts, Tracking, and What I'd Recommend
Google Fonts is an incredible resource, and it's made it stupid-easy for many people to get custom fonts on their websites with ease. I'm a little fuzzy on all the details, but it's also helped make a bunch of high quality fonts free and open source for the
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You Can Keep Your Principles, I Want Power
McConnell: Blocking Obama's SCOTUS pick led to overturning Roe v. Wade
Antonin Scalia passed away February 13, 2016.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away September 18, 2020.
Mitch deemed one of these vacancies was too close to an election and the people should get to vote for who got to fill the position. The
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Listen to Voxtrot Today
I was in college in the mid-2000s, and one of the bands that really grabbed me was Voxtrot. They
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The Cost of Switching
I'm pretty solidly in the Apple camp across my phone, tablet, watch, and desktop, and Apple's ecosystem famously makes that experience better the more you go all in on their products. There's nothing wrong with this, and it's a big reason for their success, as consumers reap
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A New High-End HomePod is (probably) Coming. Here's Why I Think it Would be Awesome
Chance Miller: A new full-size HomePod could be a hit, as long as Apple doesn't overthink it
But as I wrote just a few months ago, hindsight is 20/20, and it’s starting to appear that we (and Apple?) might have taken the original HomePod for granted. Now that the HomePod
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Why Netflix May Have Spread Out Stranger Things Season 4
Peter Kafka: Netflix's newest problem: Its newest customers
[B]y the end of April, 23 percent of Americans who signed up for Netflix had dropped the service within a month. That’s more new subscriber cancellations than any other competitive service Antenna tracks — including the likes of Apple TV+ and HBO Max, which
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The Worst Feature in iOS 16
iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 are pretty great updates, but there's one feature that makes me want to
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1Password Just Rocks
Mitch Cohen: “Sign in with” anything - and save it in 1Password
Today we’re starting with a familiar kind of sign-in service (also known as social logins or SSO). When you visit a site and click a button like “Sign in with Google”, 1Password will remember your choice and offer to save it for
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Sony's New Monitor is Way Better Than the Studio Display (for me)
Sony’s upcoming InZone monitors look perfect for me:
Made for PC but with specs to take full advantage of the PS5, along with Xbox Series X, the $899 InZone M9 is the flagship product of the bunch. It’s a 27-inch 4K IPS gaming monitor built to match the aesthetic of the PS5
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The Privacy Angle
There were too many links, so I've collected a few in one place.
Olivia Snow: Are You Ready to Be Surveilled Like a Sex Worker?
Neither the intent nor effect of FOSTA or Dobbs is to eradicate sex work or abortions, which have existed for millennia and will continue to exist regardless of
