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Russia is afraid of the truth: acknowledging the war would be a political disaster #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/20/russia-is-afraid-of-the.html

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Q&A with former Xbox boss Peter Moore on the Xbox 360 launch, his new book Game Changer, competition with Sony, the origins of the modern console war, and more (Robert Purchese/Eurogamer.net)
https://www.eurogamer.net/microsoft-was-af

"Microsoft was afraid Sony was going to own the living room" - Xbox 360 boss Peter Moore sheds new light on its fierce battle with PlayStation and the origins of the modern console war
To celebrate the Xbox 360's 20th anniversary, Eurogamer sits down with former Xbox boss Peter Moore to reflect on the console's creation and puglistic launch.

In Texas, Tierra Walker Wasn’t Offered an Abortion Before a High-risk Pregnancy Killed Her — ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-tierra-walker-preeclampsia

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

Anti-abortion activists have been trying to convince the broader public that medication abortion is dangerous for years,
but their latest argument is a decades-old asinine conspiracy theory.
In a June 18 letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin,
25 House Republicans asked the agency to study the alleged
“byproducts” of Mifepristone
(the first medication administered in a medication abortion regimen)
in water systems.
…

GOP Lawmakers Are Using a Wild Conspiracy Theory to Attack Medication Abortion
House Republicans are now talking about combing through sewers in search of microscopic evidence of our abortions.

EPA, state lawmakers could consider regulating abortion pills as pollutants in 2026 • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2025/12/20/repub/environment-abortion-pills/

America's new top health diplomat has strong opinions on abortion and gender (Jonathan Lambert/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/12/19/g-s1-102765/americas-new-top-health-diplomat-has-strong-opinions-on-abortion-and-gender
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p70#a251219p70

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The Toyota Corolla Of Programming
In 1995, an otherwise unknown software developer released the first version of a new scripting language whose explicit aim was to make applications for this new platform called "The World Wide Web". After starting as a small project, and thanks to the crazy dot-com years, it grew dramatically to become one of the most widely used programming languages of all time. After some stumbling first steps, it eventually got some sort of standardization in 1997, even reluctantly including some OOP featur…

Hillary Clinton: ‘Abortion bans have killed another woman in Texas’
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5613418-hillary-clinton-abortion-bans-texas/