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This is an incredible progress story An aggressive type of cancer (Philadelphia chromosome–positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia) used to carry a dismal prognosis, with 50% of patients dying in a year New therapies have transformed it to a cancer that most people are cured of

A new study from the London School of Economics says 50 years of tax cuts in the U.S. — which promised to “trickle down” and eventually boost jobs and income for everyone — have only helped one group: the rich. cbsnews.com/news/tax-cuts-…

I can't figure out if vaccines work or not. Tough one. I can see why RFK Jr is so concerned. Need Sherlock Holmes on this one.

the guy who just mansplained The Handmaid’s Tale to the author of The Handmaid’s Tale

Roots of parametric polynomials. Made with #python, #matplotlib, #numpy and #sympy.

Did you know? The iconic sound of the bald eagle you always hear in movies and TV shows is the one of a red-tailed hawk. Why? This is the red-tailed hawk's vocalization vs a real bald eagle's.

Case in point: there's no way to build a backdoor that only the "good guys" can use. When the entire technical community says that the EU's ChatControl legislation + similar pose serious cybersecurity threats, we're not exaggerating for effect.

It is amazing how the industry came together to invent a universal USB-C connector and then decided to instead make it all a giant mess.

Every accusation is a a confession. When your boss tells you that he thinks that you can't be trusted to do a good job without total, constant surveillance, he's really saying, "*I* only bother to do my CEO job when I'm afraid of getting fired': #fear-is-their-mind-killer" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">pluralistic.net/2024/04/19/mak… 12/

As @JohnQuiggin writes, the biggest reason to force us back to the office is to get a bunch of us to quit: theguardian.com/commentisfree/… 8/

Denise Prudhomme's bosses at Wells Fargo insisted that the in-person camaraderie of their offices warranted a mandatory return-to-office policy, but when she died at her desk in her Tempe, AZ office, no one noticed for four days. 1/

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It's been said a million times before but if public libraries were invented today the law would strike them down

They also removed ‘Fahrenheit 451’ 🔥 List of the 1,300 banned books the publishers removed from our library linked in this FAQ: help.archive.org/help/why-are-s…