Sandra S. Ciccarelli

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

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AJ+ on Instagram: "“We are humans.” At the Grammys, Bad Bunny used his acceptance speech to say “ICE out,” calling for people to resist hate with love. ⁣ ⁣ #BadBunny #ICE #ImmigrantRights #Grammys #Pu... 3,491 likes, 43 comments - ajplus on February 2, 2026: "“We are humans.” At the Grammys, Bad Bunny used his acceptance speech to say “ICE out,” calling for people to resist hate with love. ⁣ ⁣ #BadBun...

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Find More Ways to Be an Outsider Doing so may feel painful, but it’s one of the best investments you will ever make.

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A ‘great unmasking’ on X is arming Americans with digital borders

Meta Layoffs Included Employees Who Monitored Risks to User Privacy

Meta Layoffs Included Employees Who Monitored Risks to User Privacy www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/t...

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces on Wednesday, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs being removal from being at the sea...

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules

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US Supreme Court won't review rule allowing H-1B holders' spouses to work The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up a challenge to a rule adopted during Democratic former President Barack Obama's administration allowing the spouses of people with H-1B visas for highly-skilled jobs to work in the United States.

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The New AirPods Can Translate Languages in Your Ears. This Is Profound.

The New AirPods Can Translate Languages in Your Ears. This Is Profound. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/t...

11 N.Y. Officials Arrested Trying to Access ICE Detention Cells

11 N.Y. Officials Arrested Trying to Access ICE Detention Cells www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors

Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...

Opinion | How Did the Latchkey Kids of Gen X Become the Helicopter Parents of Gen Z?

How Did the Latchkey Kids of Gen X Become the Helicopter Parents of Gen Z? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/o...

More than 80% of Americans believe elected officials don’t care what people like them think More than 80% of Americans believe elected officials don’t care what people like them think.

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Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.

Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...

The Political Gap in Americans’ News Sources Democrats are much more likely than Republicans to both use and trust many major news sources, according to Pew Research Center.

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Opinion | Bad Bunny Just Wants to Stay Home. So Do I.

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down after being defunded by Congress, targeted by Trump The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been a cornerstone of American culture for three generations.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down after being defunded by Congress, targeted by Trump

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Police say ICE tactics are eroding public trust in local law enforcement Local police leaders have feared the erosion of public trust as a result of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement efforts. Many officials say they're seeing signs that's happening.

Trust in police wanes as ICE immigration enforcement ramps up

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US citizen says he was jailed for three days after California immigration raid A U.S. citizen and Army veteran who works as a security guard at a California cannabis farm said on Wednesday that U.S. officials arrested him during an immigration raid last week and held him for three days without explanation.

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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Check out this great listen on Audible.com. In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be positive all the time so that we ...

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Enjoying this book! Spoiler — it’s really about being true to yourself and embracing the struggles and process on your own terms for the things you care about.

You Can Change Your Personality It’s really hard.

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Isabel Wilkerson on the meaning of Juneteenth : NPR

Like School Shootings, Political Violence Is Becoming Almost Routine

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Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.

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ChatGPT's viral Studio Ghibli-style images highlight AI copyright concerns Fans of Studio Ghibli, the famed Japanese animation studio behind “Spirited Away” and other beloved movies, were delighted this week when a new version of ChatGPT let them transform popular internet m...

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Join Keya Belt Robinson from NMSI at the Equity in Action Series with the Computer Science Teachers Association as she leads an interactive session on engaging girls.

📅 March 6 | ⏰ 5:00–6:30 PM CT
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WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL

Because science is for everyone!

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A Legal Counteroffensive to Beat Back Trump’s Government Purges A raft of new lawsuits contend that President Trump and Elon Musk are breaking the law to ransack the F.B.I. and other federal agencies. The courts will now decide.

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USAID website goes dark amid Trump administration's freeze on foreign aid worldwide The website of the U.S. Agency for International Development went offline without explanation Saturday as thousands of furloughs, layoffs and program shutdowns continued in President Donald Trump's fr...

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Inside a New Plan to Bring Electricity to 300 Million in Africa Some $35 billion is aimed at building small solar sites in rural areas and other improvements. The World Bank chief called the project “foundational to everything.”

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