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* What's a democratic socialist? https://coreyrobin.com/2025/06/26/what-is-a-democratic-socialist/

* Republicans flagged more often than Dems for sharing misinformation on X’s Community Notes https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2502053122 (h/t Marginal Revolution)

* Emergency decontamination tool for Chemical Crowd Control Agent (CCCA) exposure and app for protestor mobilization https://nedc.mesausa.org/team/california-2025/ (h/t Ray Gulick)

* Promises The Trump Phone Would Be ‘Made In USA’ Lasted 1/100th Of A Scaramucci https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/27/promises-the-trump-phone-would-be-made-in-usa-lasted-1-100th-of-a-scaramucci/

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* Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-vaccine-recommendations-backed-by-science-in-these-handy-charts/ (h/t Kottke)

* John Hodgman Knows Where the Sewage-Treatment Plant Should Go https://www.curbed.com/article/interview-john-hodgman-joy-of-zoning-livestream-simcity2013.html

* Zohran did not win because of TikTok and podcasts https://www.usermag.co/p/zohran-did-not-win-because-of-tiktok-and-podcasts-social-media

* How Uber Became A Cash-Generating Machine https://len-sherman.medium.com/how-uber-became-a-cash-generating-machine-ef78e7a97230 (h/t DSHR)

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* "Hey Google" https://thisecommercelife.com/blogs/comics/hey-google

* The Rise And The Fall Of The Mail Chute https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/the-rise-and-the-fall-of-the-mail-chute/

* Bezos Wedding Guests Given Monogrammed Plastic Bottles To Urinate In During Ceremony https://theonion.com/bezos-wedding-guests-given-monogrammed-plastic-bottles-to-urinate-in-during-ceremony/

* NPR staffers pick their favorite fiction reads of 2025 so far https://www.npr.org/2025/06/25/nx-s1-5356144/fiction-books-summer-2025

* Inside the UFC Settlement Fighters Actually Deserve https://leftsideofthev.substack.com/p/knockout-victory-inside-the-ufc-settlement

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* Jailbroken: A Story of Corporate Overreach, Police Abuse of Power, and Modern Tech https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-selfpublished-author-spread-his-story

* Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser – The Blockbuster to End All Blockbusters https://nordiclarp.org/2025/06/20/star-wars-galactic-starcruiser-the-blockbuster-to-end-all-blockbusters/

* MIT student prints AI polymer masks to restore paintings in hours https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/mit-student-prints-ai-polymer-masks-to-restore-paintings-in-hours/

* Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice https://theonion.com/letter-to-congress/

* Dems’ Crypto Schemers Have Entered The Chat https://www.levernews.com/dems-crypto-schemers-have-entered-the-chat/?utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=social-link&utm_campaign=social-link-buffer

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#20yrsago Software patents are bad for coders like literary patents would be for writers https://web.archive.org/web/20050622023635/http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,1510566,00.html

#20yrsago WIPO Development Agenda meeting docs photographed and posted https://web.archive.org/web/20051127092845/http://homes.eff.org/~renbucholz/wipo/

#20yrsago Dear Kansas: Why stop at “Intelligent Design?” What about Spaghetti Monsters? https://web.archive.org/web/20050626010148/http://www.venganza.org/

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#15yrsago Canadian Heritage Minister declares war on copyright reformers https://web.archive.org/web/20100626073040/http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5138/125/

#15yrsago Bruce Sterling’s Shareable.net story about astroturfer gulag https://www.shareable.net/the-exterminators-want-ad/

#15yrsago Corruption: FCC’s closed-door meetings on open Internet https://web.archive.org/web/20100626222659/http://blog.broadband.gov/?entryId=518087

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#15yrsago Original Pac-Man sketches https://www.control-online.nl/2010/06/22/iwatani-toont-gamesgeschiedenis-in-meest-pure-vorm/

#15yrsago Viacom v Internet: round one to Internet https://memex.craphound.com/2010/06/23/viacom-v-internet-round-one-to-internet/

#15yrsago A Canadian author’s perspective on “radical extremism” and copyright https://memex.craphound.com/2010/06/23/a-canadian-authors-perspective-on-radical-extremism-and-copyright/

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#20yrsago Beloved Toronto singing cowboy/mayoral candidate Ben Kerr, RIP https://www.blogto.com/city/2005/06/ben_kerr_a_toronto_legend_passes_away/

#20yrsago Heinlein’s house https://web.archive.org/web/20050625235954/http://www.heinleinsociety.org/rah/history/bonnydoon1.html

#20yrsago Banned Nepali radio station transmits via megaphone https://reliefweb.int/report/nepal/banned-air-nepal-news-radio-hits-streets

#20yrsago Queen Liz: Sony remotes are too hard to use https://web.archive.org/web/20050815080728/http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?email&NewsID=11914

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