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"aimed to stop protesters from "organizing reunions and protests"" is a direct quote from one of their top politicians. I'm not going to pretend I didn't read it. There's foreign b…

An even more apt analogy is France in New Caledonia. Back in 2024, the French territorial government used an anti-terrorism law to enforce DNS blocks in that overseas territory, fo…

> "interesting new phenomenon" Pardon me, but summary executions in the United States taking place in broad daylight, with seeming impunity, is very much a new and novel phenomenon…

Here's the source for that one (just in case anyone is living under a rock or something), https://www.startribune.com/border-patrol-greg-bovino-smoke-... ( "A federal agent sprays …

That's a summary execution in broad daylight. I have no words.

> "Not sure what he would gain from that." Besides the ~$1 million a head he's openly selling[0] pardons for? Why wouldn't he pardon a white-collar felon fraudster? This president …

More discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633574 ( "Found: Medieval Cargo Ship – Largest Vessel of Its Kind Ever (smithsonianmag.com)" , 54 comments) edit: Also, I th…

> "think is related to some undetermined future nebulously bad thing" Anna's Archive made threats in writing to distribute, concretely and specifically, the plaintiff's copyrighted…

An even better source, imho: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/blue-origin-we-want-to... ( "Another Jeff Bezos company has announced plans to develop a megaconstellation" )

(Mercosur*, for "Mercado Común del Sur" [0]; Mercator was a geographer from the 16th century[1]). [0] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... ( "Glossary:Me…

This is a clear plagiarism of a Reuters article[0], which should be submitted instead. [0] https://www.reuters.com/science/italy-uncovers-basilica-desi... ( "Italy uncovers basilic…

character: l (displayed as l) (codepoint 108, #o154, #x6c) LATIN SMALL LETTER L Why did you replace the "I" in "AI" with its homoglyph "l"?

Discussed here at the time, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45604313 ( "Chat-GPT becomes Sex-GPT for verified adults (twitter.com/sama)" )