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A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.

A new anonymous phone carrier startup Phreeli, launching today, will let you sign up for cellular service with almost no personally identifiable information—not even your name. All it asks for is a ZIP code, the minimum info legally required for tax purposes. www.wired.com/story/new-an...

Child deaths projected to rise for first time this century, as aid cuts reverse decades of progress | CNN The number of children who die before age 5 is expected to rise for the first time this century, amid sweeping cuts to global health funding by high-income countries, according to a new report from th...

I would like to extend a personal "Fuck You." directly to the administration which is murdering children only to spite their opponents.

Child deaths projected to rise for first time this century, as aid cuts reverse decades of progress | CNN edition.cnn.com/2025/12/04/w...

anything can be a christmas movie if you watch it at home alone

I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice

far too much of modern life is people acting shocked when a nazi does some nazi shit

that's what they fucking *do*

that's literally the job description

Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication A 2000 study that concluded the well-known herbicide glyphosate was safe, widely cited since then, has just been officially disavowed by the journal that published it. The scientists are suspected of ...

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Oh, no kidding?

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

You don’t
have to
be suave,
because I fall
for sincerity
long before
polish.
I look for
the way your
voice softens
when you care,
the steadiness
in your hands
when truth is
all you offer.
Style fades
in the dark, but
honesty is the
only garment
you need to
earn my love.
#vss365 #poetry #suave

The world
is quieter
than we think.
That’s why
it matters
to
declare love
before the
moment
slips away.
We forget how
silence can feel
like absence,
even when
we care.
So we choose
to say it,
to give our heart,
because letting
someone know
they're loved
can change
everything.

#vss365 #matter

German far-right party sets up its new youth wing as thousands protest A confident far-right Alternative for Germany has set up its new youth organization as thousands of protesters converged on the western city of Giessen.

2000 people blocked roads, kept many delegates from arriving, and ultimately delayed the opening of the far-right AfD’s new youth wing “Generation Germany” convention. At least 25,000 people protested the convention overall. (AfD came in second in Germany’s recent election, with 20% of votes.)

👋

I had no idea he had passed until today. I always enjoyed his talks and enthusiasm. Quite the character. RIP Cheshire, BLAST OFF!

Right?!

And just to clarify: I mean they function well.

Oregon pilot program giving cash to youth sees staggering reduction in homelessness - Salem Reporter A state program gave homeless youth $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.

UBI and related programs fucking work.

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A sequel to Ferris Bueller's Day Off that takes place 40 years later. Ferris is pushing 60 and looking back on his life, full of bad decisions, schemes gone wrong, and failure. He breaks the 4th wall to directly tell the audience that if God exists, we're the butt of his cruelest joke.

RFK Jr now has disinformation about Vaccines and Autism on the CDC website

ADHD medication being recalled nationwide after failing effectiveness tests Lisdexamfetamine dimesylate is the generic form of Vyvanse

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ADHD medication being recalled nationwide after failing
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Judge OKs deal for Sackler family and Purdue, makers of the opioid OxyContin | AP News share.google/xTzwFhRAt1Az...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Judge formally approves Purdue Pharma opioid settlement, with Sacklers paying up to $7B and some funds going to victims.

So who else woke up this morning, and thought "Huh, I can't remember the Cauchy form of the remainder." #PhDPTSD

As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.

“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

Progress on the pathway to long COVID treatments - Nature Immunology The US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Foundation for the National Institutes of Health convened a 2-day workshop announcing four agents to enter RECOVER–Treating Long COVID ...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The issue
isn’t the depth
of my love.
I’ve already
given it
freely,
steadily,
wholly.
The question
is in the quiet
between us and
whether your
heart has room
to let me in.
I stand here
waiting to give,
and all I ask
is for you to
let yourself
receive what’s
already yours.

#vss365 #poetry #issue

Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pad Changes Changing the pads on your car’s brakes is a pretty straightforward and inexpensive process on most vehicles. However, many modern vehicles having electronic parking brakes giving manufacturer…

It's going to get worse, before it gets even worse.

Hackaday
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Ethiopia confirms first Marburg outbreak as WHO lauds country's fast action Ethiopia on Friday confirmed its first Marburg outbreak after nine cases were identified in a southern region of the country that borders South Sudan.

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Another one bites the dust...

I’m sorry but WHATTHEFUCK

@bauliya - everyone's like wehhhhh why doesn't doctor house gets suuuueeed! like every patient he sees is someone that's been trying to find a diagnosis for ages. live with a little malpractice if it were coming from someone ready to break into my home to look for allergens and not simply half heartedly listen to me before suggesting I lose weight and take ages of back and forth arguing to order a single test

South Carolina executes man by firing squad, in state’s third such killing in year Stephen Bryant, 44, convicted over 2004 murder, was shot dead despite growing backlash against ‘barbaric’ method

I would sure prefer this over getting my arm swabbed with alcohol by a nurse who hooks me up to an IV that poison is then pushed into.

South Carolina executes man by firing squad, in state’s third such killing in year | South Carolina | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...