gop After North Carolina Republicans banned cities selling internet, a town decided to give it away instead Cory Doctorow
events While 130,000 Danes party at Roskilde Festival, an invisible workforce collects their trash for survival Ellsworth Toohey
politics Bezos breaks his favorite toy: Ruth Marcus bails after 40 years at The Washington Post Ellsworth Toohey
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artificial intelligence Nightshade: a new tool artists can use to "poison" AI models that scrape their online work Ruben Bolling
Section 3 of the 14th amendment Donald Trump is ineligible to run for president, say conservative law professors Carla Sinclair
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