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‘Censorship pure and simple’: critics hit out at Trump plan to vet visitors’ social media
Some warn proposal will decimate US tourism industry as free speech advocates say it will lead to people self-censoring
 The persecutor plans to impose fear and self-censorship on visitors from many countries (the ones whose citizens don't need visas to visit the US) by demanding almost full cooperation with monitoring of their past and future communications. The one thing not demanded is your GPG keys. There will surely be no stated criterion for what things it is forbidden to say, so no one could be sure
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Myanmar is going to the polls. But it’s not the people who hold the power – it’s China
As the military pushes ahead with a widely condemned election, Beijing’s priorities are proving decisive
 China's support is helping the Burmese military rulers recover from a very weak situation.
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The Guardian view on gene editing: breakthroughs need a new social contract | Editorial
Editorial: Cutting-edge therapies exist, but the market cannot deliver them cheaply. Britain must build NHS capacity so that cures become collectiv...
 * Cutting-edge therapies exist, but the market cannot deliver them cheaply. Britain must build NHS capacity so that cures become collective goods, not expensive products.* This conclusion goes for every country. We should replace the patent system, which systematically makes new medicine too expensive for most people, with a different way of funding medical
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Only a third of world’s river basins experienced normal conditions in 2024
Increasingly erratic water cycle is creating food scarcity, rising prices, conflict and migration, says UN agency
 *Only a third of world's river basins experienced normal conditions in 2024.*
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Trump officials halt offshore wind-farm projects over ‘national security risks’
Interior department move affects five projects under construction in latest blow to industry targeted by Trump
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 The bullshitter has presented a new excuse to cancel offshore wind generator projects - claiming that they might interfere with military radar coverage. The military studied this question before but concluded it was not a real problem. I suspect that the bullshitter's henchmen made this up as an excuse to cancel wind
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The island that banned hives: can honeybees actually harm nature?
On a tiny Italian island, scientists conducted a radical experiment to see if the bees were causing their wild cousins to decline
 Feral honeybees establish themselves in wild areas and are so successful that they leave insufficient food for all the other bee species.
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We’re pastors. The fight against Maga Christianity starts locally | Doug Pagitt and Lori Walke
Trump’s movement has used the Christian faith to fuel oppression. Here’s how we are standing against it
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 Some Christians have shaped their versions of Christianity to take care of the people that the bully wants to persecute. This won't convince me to believe in a god, but I recognize that this way is better than the bully's way.
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Trump administration reportedly freezes all childcare payments to all states
Trump official says funds will be released ‘only when states prove they are being spent legitimately’
 Henchmen have suspended childcare payments to all 50 states. This is ostensibly a response to vague accusations of funding irregularities; he demands that states prove they have done nothing wrong.
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When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr
The US economy is pumped up on tech-bro vanity. The inevitable correction should prompt a global conversation, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
 An article explains the economic danger of the current "AI" bubble, and the long-term menace of possible human-level artificial intelligence controlled by a manipulative and powerful company, while it also punctures the hype campaign that says LLMs are "intelligence" and capable of thinking, understanding and believing.
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Judge says Trump administration must continue funding consumer watchdog
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is at risk after Donald Trump vowed to shutter it since his return to office
 A judge rejected the magats' artificial excuse for cutting off funding to the CFPB.