mit The MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award: $250K for "disobedience for the benefit of society" Cory Doctorow
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insurrectionists Man who propped his legs on Nancy Pelosi's desk on Jan 6 found guilty Carla Sinclair
Japan Ashamed aide to Japan's PM apologizes after putting hands in his pockets while in U.S. (video) Carla Sinclair
Food Japanese whaling company stocking vending machines with whale snacks to spur appropriately-declining demand David Pescovitz
santa claus 10-year-old asks for a DNA test on a cookie allegedly bitten by Santa to prove if he's real or not Rusty Blazenhoff
racism Florida Governor DeSantis blocks African American Studies AP class in high schools David Pescovitz
HDSF Meet the Space Bum, ambiguous stock character of generations of science fiction Jesse Sheidlower
History English commoners' rights come from The Charter of the Forest, not the Magna Carta Elías Villoro