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L.A. mayoral forum canceled after leading candidates pull out
Organizers on Monday canceled a televised forum for Los Angeles mayoral candidates after City Councilmember Nithya Raman dropped out,
which meant all three of the leading candidates would be no-shows.
Mayor Karen Bass originally committed to the forum but dropped out last week,
saying she would instead travel to Sacramento to lobby state officials for funding on a variety of issues including homelessness a…

L.A. mayoral forum canceled after leading candidates pull out
Organizers on Monday canceled a televised forum for Los Angeles mayoral candidates after City Councilmember Nithya Raman dropped out, which meant all three of the leading candidates would be no-shows.

“Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles”
https://vale.rocks/posts/game-console-browsers
There is a *lot* here. Not screen shots of sites, but history of the browser on each platform with interesting nuggets.

Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles
Exploring cyberspace with a thumbstick.

⚰️ The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces
#games

The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces
A eulogy for the console soul.

"Testing the waters: can pumping chemicals into the ocean help stop global heating?"
#Chemicals #Environment #Oceans

The Department of Government Efficiency ( #DOGE ) 
tagged Jewish themes as “#DEI” (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) in ChatGPT
when searching for federal humanities grants to cancel last year,
according to a class-action lawsuit. 
The methodology contributed to the cancellation of National Endowment for t…

Lawsuit says DOGE used ChatGPT to tag Jewish-themed humanities grants as ‘DEI’ before cancelling them
JTA – The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) tagged Jewish themes as “DEI” (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) in ChatGPT when searching for federal humanities grants to cancel last year, according to a class-action lawsuit.  The methodology contributed to the cancellation of National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants to study violence against women during the Holocaust, postwar Soviet Jewish literature, and hundreds […]

NBCUniversal will no longer produce first-run syndicated TV programming, ending shows including Access Hollywood, which has been in production for 30 years (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne

‘Access Hollywood’ Canceled Along With ‘Karamo’ and ‘Steve Wilkos’ as NBCU Ends Syndicated Production
The company will continue to distribute library content, but will end production of first-run syndicated programming in a strategic shift.

There’s always a “bUT FrEe spEEcH” outcry about things like this, and…look, the aforementioned student outcry •is• free speech. Not only that, the •event cancellation• is free speech.
And not only that!! This part even well-meaning, democracy-minded people totally botch: this initial scheduling, the backlash, the argument over whose voice gets amplified and in what space, the ultimate cancellation? All that is the •bedrock• of free speech.
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The interior department is canceling a rule that put conservation on equal footing with development,
as Donald Trump’s administration eases restrictions on industries and seeks to boost drilling, logging, mining and grazing on taxpayer-owned land.
The 2024 rule adopted under former president Joe Biden was meant to refocus the interior department’s Bureau of Land Management,
which oversees about 10% of land in the US.
It allowed public property to be leased for restora…