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"Leaders at the Social Security Administration are reportedly instructing agency employees to provide Immigration and Customs Enforcement with information about in-person beneficiary appointments."
Trump admin spooking people out of filing for Social Security: report - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-social-security-2675272166/

How AI is impacting the romance novel industry, with authors failing to disclose AI use and using pen names more, bogging down the publishing ecosystem (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/busin…

How AI is impacting the romance novel industry, with authors failing to disclose AI use and using pen names more, bogging down the publishing ecosystem (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/busines

Can AI Chatbots Write Emotionally Rich Romance Books?
The romance industry, always at the vanguard of technological change, is rapidly adapting to A.I. Not everyone is on board.

"what motivates Trump, Bouie said — in addition to ego and raw self-interest — is obviously racism. After all racism is an “ideology that papers over feelings of inadequacy.”"
Trump 'the laughingstock' of polite society: NYT editorial - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-2675108653/

More than 10,000 Americans who suffer from chronic liver disease are on a waitlist for a liver transplant,
-- but there are not enough donated organs for all of those patients.
Additionally, many people with liver failure aren’t eligible for a transplant if they are not healthy enough to tolerate the surgery.
To help those patients, MIT engineers have developed ⭐️ “mini livers” that could be injected into the body and take over the functions of the failing liver.
In a n…

Injectable “satellite livers” could offer an alternative to liver transplantation
MIT engineers developed “mini livers” that could be injected into the body and take over the functions of a failing liver.

#CNN: "Frequent flyers say these 25 travel essentials under $25 actually make a difference"
Lemme guess. Greyhound (bus) tickets? 😏
#flying #alternatives #sarcasm #travel

＂… something with FreeBSD in September 2012 … probably toying with 9.0 on a PowerPC iMac with failing graphics hardware. Not because I was a glutton for punishment (like, the horror of a command-line loader, and the certainty that hardware was failing) – because there was nothing good to be done with the Mac, and I was curious about non-Apple alternatives to Microsoft Windows. …＂
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Allemaal volgen 🙂 , de nieuwe staatssecretaris voor Digitale Economie en Soevereiniteit is ook op Mastodon.
Al is het maar zodat iedereen ziet dat Mastodon een goed alternatief voor X, Bluesky en dergelijke is.
Boosten wordt op prijs gesteld.
https://social.overheid.nl/@stasdigi

Willemijn Aerdts (@stasdigi@social.overheid.nl)
1 Post, 0 Following, 0 Followers · Staatssecretaris van Economische Zaken – Digitale economie en soevereiniteit | Redactie door het ministerie van Economische Zaken en Klimaat

🐬 Climate engineering would alter the oceans, reshaping marine life. Our new study examines each method's risks
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-climate-oceans-reshaping-marine-life.html

Climate engineering would alter the oceans, reshaping marine life. Our new study examines each method's risks
Climate change is already fueling dangerous heat waves, raising sea levels and transforming the oceans. Even if countries meet their pledges to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving climate change, global warming will exceed what many ecosystems can safely handle.

MAGA evangelicals’ 'religious freedom' claims are falling apart - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/marcotte-alex-pretti/