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I miss when government ads just told us not to litter.

Fishermen rescue a newborn elephant calf swept away in the Teesta River. Forest department later reunites the calf with its mother: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/HumansBein...

For those who keep calling Liberals Communists, please note, banning news you don't like is Communism.

George Orwell's Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia Cartoon by Guy Venables

I'm trying to de-google myself for the last few years, but when I go the leading bank in Indian Metro, adking for some clarification on the scheme under which I was witjdrawing money & they were refusing - the government bank employees told me - "Ok, Google the terms & conditions"

This cartoon was created by Pulitzer Prize winning artist Adam Zyglis for The Buffalo News in November, 2024. It hits even harder now.

Free love and free electricity

yes....YESSS.....

Woke fertilizer virus

Still using Microsoft or Google for Mail? Try this Swiss based alternative to send a message to US tech! ✊🏻 proton.me/l/mail-plans...

My gay heart 💔 Dolly presenting Whitney with the Grammy for “I will always love you”

Fourteen years ago, HBO's 'The Newsroom' laid out the truth about voter ID in this segment. It’s striking how little the arguments — or the tactics — have changed. Still a solution in search of a problem. History doesn’t repeat itself — it gets rerun.

DAVE ALLEN in 1993 on how we teach kids about the concept of time...

RIP, Dolly Parton. I watched 9 to 5 far more often than it made any sense for an elementary schooler in the early 80s to do so. Absolute legend, great in everything, and an even better human than she was a singer or songwriter or actress. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPQR...

Trump imposed tariffs. Canada retaliated. Trump retaliated to the retaliation. Canada just retaliated to the retaliation on the retaliation. Also there's an existing free trade agreement binding both of these countries. It all feels so dumb.

Trump reported 1,051 trades in his June disclosure. These two stood out: — June 18: Bought $250K–$500K in Boeing, the same day the Navy awarded Boeing an $880 million contract — June 23: Bought $15K–$50K in SpaceX, the same day NASA recorded a $425.6 million award to SpaceX

Nvidia is planning to use a $6 billion deal it struck this week to build one of the world’s most powerful open-weight AI models, to compete with Chinese heavyweights like DeepSeek, according to people familiar with the matter.

When your goal is to harass and hurt women already going through a difficult time, you don’t get to lie about your motives, get pious, and play the victim. Go away, you deceitful, pompous busybodies.

It’s Sunday. This video seems appropriate. Texas Rep. #JamesTalarico challenges the Ten Commandments bill, questioning its purpose and constitutionality and asking why lawmakers focus on symbolic culture wars instead of the everyday issues facing Texans. #SheShed #TenCommandments

When you appoint reality TV people to the most important positions of the government running massive federal agencies, don’t be surprised when they treat the job like a reality TV show starring themselves while we pay them and the expenses.

RE: inflation, we're seeing the left pick the risers and the right picks the fallers.⁣ ⁣ Everyone knows we should look at the whole basket. That's the only number that reflects what it actually costs to live your life. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/the-economics-of-feeling-ripped-off

70yr old FRED ASTAIRE — that's SEVENTY — gets his stylish groove on at the 1970 Academy Awards.

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Frank Herbert, Dune

BREAKING: Canadian PM Mark Carney suspends all trade negotiations with the U.S. after “unfair, uneconomic” last-minute changes to the deal. At midnight the U.S. will implement a 50% tariff on ~$28 billion of Canadian goods, and now, Canada will match it dollar-for-dollar.

My name is not raising your gas prices. My name is not the reason we’re in an illegal war. My name is not the reason you can’t afford your healthcare. My name is not the reason that you can’t afford your rent or your insurance.

He should be Told No Concerning everything he wants…..

Can you guess how much the minimum wage would be today if it kept up with worker productivity over the years?

A Very Valid Point….

Any dog can be a guide dog if you don't care where you're going.

Japan's megabanks chase ultrawealthy as fortunes swell Lenders boost specialist staff and services to capture stable fee income trib.al/gUwFLL1

If ever a case were made to get all of your stuff and things out of the cloud and amass physical copies of everything, here is a prime example of why: PBS Could Lose 70 Years of Historic Archive Footage Over Cloud Dispute | PCMag share.google/mVR4o9Uk84T9...

With every singe piece of open-source software I replace something proprietary with, a potential switch from Windows to Linux becomes gradually easier. Fewer things would change, so it goes more smoothly. 🤔 Notepad++, LibreOffice, GIMP instead of Photoshop, Jami instead of WhatsApp, OBS of course. 💻

Nepal halts Tibet academic conference after China objects The International Association for Tibetan Studies said Nepali officials personally instructed Kathmandu University not to host its weeklong conference, due to begin on Aug. 23. trib.al/zdRJsat

Could not say it better than Bruce…..

The stunning beauty of the Seven Sisters waterfall Meghalaya, India 🇮🇳

A VP does not set policy. She works within the policy set by the president. I don’t know how any clear-eyed person could watch these clips of Kamala Harris and Netanyahu and not conclude that it was going to be a much different day under President Kamala Harris.

In America, one health care company can own: Your doctor Your pharmacy Your insurance AND the middleman between your pharmacy and insurance. That means more profits for giant companies and higher costs for you. That's not right — and I have a bill to stop it.

A NEW TWIST in Africa's soaring solar story: It's now manufacturing its own panels. The factories use imported Chinese cells, which are 40% of the value of panels, keeping much of the value domestically. 9 GW of cells+wafers in Mar/Apr alone🧵

“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in desert. Half sunk a shattered visage lies hand that mocked them ..on pedestal .. words. My name is #trump #kingofkings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" Nothing remains around the decay.. The lone and level sands stretch far away. #ballroom

OpenAI allowed employees to sell up to $30 million worth of shares each in a recent financing, making them some of the earliest financial winners of the artificial-intelligence boom. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4nFMOQx

For decades, India’s software boom powered the rise of its middle class. But as AI automates coding and testing, the industry that shaped millions of careers faces an uncertain future. trib.al/F4ayy9S

As global unease grows over U.S. tech dominance, alternative platforms are thriving,Proton Mail has hit 100 million users! What’s fueling this digital shift, and which platforms are on the rise? 🌍📱