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DVDs and Blu-rays are vital as streaming modifications.

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In 2021, I went on a purge. It wasn’t a high-minded Marie Kondo-ing—not a single pleasure was sparked. I simply needed much less stuff. My husband Chris and I have been about to maneuver, and my aim was to cull as a lot as doable. I didn’t need to pack one thing, transfer it 200 miles, unpack it, after which by no means contact it once more till our subsequent transfer. So I went by books, garments, kitchen gear, tchotchkes.

However Chris wouldn’t let me close to

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What Meta staff do when their very own accounts are hacked.

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New York Instances v. Sullivan and freedom of the press is below menace from the Supreme Court docket.

Practically 60 years in the past, the U.S. Supreme Court docket determined a case that set the stage for a dramatic growth of First Modification rights throughout the nation. Whereas New York Instances v. Sullivan handled arcane points about burdens positioned on public officers suing for defamation, it additionally declared our “profound nationwide dedication to the precept that

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The general public well being battle in opposition to COVID misinformation continues.

Mis- and disinformation have been prevalent all through the COVID-19 pandemic, however in latest months anti-vax activists and conspiracy theorists have latched on to a brand new phrase to assist their trigger: “died out of the blue.” Anti-vaxxers hoping to persuade folks that COVID vaccines are linked to sudden deaths amongst youthful folks have invoked the time period whereas making an attempt to use tragic occasions just like the demise of soccer journalist Grant Wahl, or Damar Hamlin struggling a cardiac arrest throughout an NFL sport. Although that idea has no scientific proof to help it, the “died out of

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Extinction, de-extinction, and the daybreak of the artificial age.

An professional in environmental philosophy and wildlife restoration responds to Margrét Helgadóttir’s “A Lion Roars in Longyearbyen.”

Margrét Helgadóttir’s imaginative and prescient of a northern metropolis become a bloated local weather refuge has already left the class of fiction. True, an escaped lion prowling town streets is uncommon. However we already stay in a world haunted by the ghosts of species extinguished by rising temperatures, the prospect of meat grown in a manufacturing unit, and the burdens created by tens of hundreds of local weather migrants. A lot else rings true, together with the social disapproval for individuals

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If we don’t actually turn into “grownup” at 18 or 21, can we settle for what which means?

In a automotive exterior a comfort retailer in Flint, Michigan, in late 2016, Kemo Parks handed his cousin Dequavion Harris a gun. Issues occurred rapidly after that: Witnesses noticed Harris “along with his arm up and prolonged” towards a crimson truck. Pictures rang out. The wounded driver sped off however crashed right into a tree. EMTs rushed him to the hospital. He was useless on arrival.

Two weeks later, Harris was arrested following a automotive chase. He and Parks have been charged with the homicide of Darnyreouckeonu Jones-Dickerson, recognized to his associates as Kee-Kee. At trial, a household good friend

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