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Pesticide Use Has Increased by Over 80% since 1990, Causing Pollinator Declines and Water Contamination ( medium.com )

Astronomers are on the Hunt for Dyson Spheres ( www.universetoday.com )

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask just got an unofficial PC port ( www.dsogaming.com )

Narrative of Trump snoozing in court takes hold — much to his annoyance ( www.washingtonpost.com )

Mystery of where Mona Lisa was painted has been solved, geologist claims ( www.theguardian.com )

Ann Pizzorusso says she has tracked down the background landscape of the world’s most famous painting

Is Carbon Capture Cause for Hope? a new facility to suck carbon out of the air shows why it's more complicated than that. ( newrepublic.com )

Jellyfin Server/Web 10.9 Released ( jellyfin.org )

As always, please ensure you stop your Jellyfin server and take a full backup before upgrading!

Senator Katie Britt is back at it, pushing a bill to launch a pregnancy tracking federal database ( www.salon.com )

Republicans Double Down on School Vouchers by Taking Fight to Rural Members of Their Own Party ( dailyyonder.com )

For years, rural Republican state legislators have bucked the party’s support for funneling public funds into private schools through education vouchers. Now Republican leaders are ramping up pressure on these holdouts.

The lie of “expired” food and the disastrous truth of America’s food waste problem ( www.vox.com )

Texas man seeks to have ex-partner investigated for out-of-state abortion ( www.theguardian.com )

More Than a Million Adults Have Legal Guardians. Seven States Won’t Let Them Vote. ( www.motherjones.com )

The conservatorship system that trapped Britney Spears also disenfranchises people with disabilities.

Man pivots seamlessly from criticising trans rights as ‘a threat to women’s safety’ to defending Russell Brand as ‘no threat to women’s safety’ ( newsthump.com )

From Toxic Mold to Rampant Fraud: How Privatizing Military Housing Became a Nightmare for Soldiers ( www.pogo.org )

The Pentagon wanted to offload rising maintenance costs. America’s service members have paid the price ever since.

NOAA says ‘extreme’ Solar storm will persist through the weekend ( arstechnica.com )

Yellen was stumped by the question: Is it possible we’re just being outcompeted by the Chinese in those (electric vehicles, batteries, all of those things.) ( www.marketplace.org )

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So-called antisemitism bill passes House ( www.workers.org )

There are several House members who have serious reservations about H.R. 6090, especially some progressive Democrats. Jerry Nadler is one of the most outspoken critics of the new bill. Nadler, who is Jewish and represents a district in New York City with one of the largest Jewish populations in the U.S., called out the hypocrisy...

About Microvision, One Of The First Handheld Game Consoles ( mentalitch.com )

Israel razes entire Bedouin village to expand a highway ( www.972mag.com )

Traffic Lights Are Communication Tools ( lumpley.games )

r/The_Donald helped radicalize users into far-right identities and discourse – Active users on r/The_Donald increasingly used white nationalist vocabularies in their comments within three months. ( journals.sagepub.com )

I know most people that were on reddit at the time are fully aware of this and won't be surprised but don't dismiss the findings out of hand. It's important that studies are being conducted and the fact that the finding match our lived experience is still noteworthy.