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Apple doesn't include a charger in the box with the new M5 MacBook Pro in European countries, making users pay extra; the company cites local regulations (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/15/new-macbook-pro-lacks-charger-in-europe/

New MacBook Pro Does Not Include a Charger in the Box in Europe
The new 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M5 chip does not include a charger in the box in European countries, including the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Italy,...

This Saturday, millions of people are going to say no, and insist that every American has a right to dissent.
It’s going to be big
— there will be enormous rallies in major cities, and smaller but still meaningful ones in towns around the country.
There will be families, and dogs, and people in silly costumes.
They’re going to march, and stand together, and listen to speeches, and hold up signs
Trump and his allies will spin their absurd conspiracy theories,…

Ahead of No Kings Protest, Trump and GOP Try to Delegitimize All Dissent
There is no such thing as genuine progressive public opinion, and therefore mass and mobilized opposition to Trump doesn't count.

None of the 25 dramas and comedies in N. American theaters in the last three months had $50M in sales; October had the lowest box office on record, except 2020 (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/business/media/box-office-co…

Why Hollywood’s Star-Studded Movies Are Failing at the Box Office
It has been a brutal three months for dramas and comedies.

"Don't be evil" is so far in the past, it's not even a memory anymore
(Original title: Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort)
https://www.404media.co/google-has-chosen-a-side-in-trumps-mass-deportation-ef…

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “It is time to choose sides; fascism or morality? Big tech has made their choice.”

💥We are pleased to share our new paper about ancient RNA expression profiles from the Woolly Mammoth, now published in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social
If you want to know more, read the thread below:
https://bsky.app/profile/marmole6.bsky.social/post/3m5m2u5u7gk2m

Emilio Mármol Sánchez (@marmole6.bsky.social)
During past years, research focused on ancient #DNA has gained a lot of interest, with dozens of papers being routinely published each year📃 But what about ancient #RNA? The common preconception is that these molecules, as opposed to DNA, do not last long after cell death. https://media.tenor.com/gMBUgkYXPxIAAAAC/ponke-ponkesol.gif?hh=498&ww=498

Assassin's Creed franchise boss Marc-Alexis Côté departs Ubisoft, two weeks after the game moved under Ubisoft's new Vantage Studios unit; Côté joined in 2005 (Tom Phillips/IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles/assassins-creed-franchise-boss-departs-ubisoft

Assassin's Creed Franchise Boss Departs Ubisoft - IGN
Assassin's Creed franchise boss Marc-Alexis Côté has departed Ubisoft after a career spanning more than 20 years, IGN understands.

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi today reaffirmed the validity of the video showing ICE agents violently detaining individuals in Hoffman Estates,
confirmed that the incident occurred in his district,
and condemned the Trump Administration’s campaign of secrecy, brutality, and misinformation.
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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (@congressmanraja.bsky.social)
Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

Lightspeed raised a record $9B across six funds to invest in AI, with $3.3B to back breakout companies like Anthropic; Lightspeed has backed 165 AI startups (Erin Griffith/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/technology/ai-venture-capital-big-fun…

In A.I. Boom, Venture Capital Firms Are Raising Loads More Money
Lightspeed Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley venture firm, has amassed more than $9 billion to invest in artificial intelligence. That is its biggest haul.

We don’t have to live like this.
It’s a choice.
Every day we do nothing to restrict guns.
Every day we claim it’s mental illness and not access.
Every day we let them change the subject.
We don’t have to live like this.
https://bsky.app/profile/momsdemand.bs

Moms Demand Action (@momsdemand.bsky.social)
It has been 13 years since the lives of 20 children and six educators were taken in minutes by a gunman armed with a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle and high-capacity magazines at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Connecticut. Two other people were wounded. 🧵

Tech whistleblowers like Yaël Eisenstat say coming forward has unexpectedly derailed their lives and careers; Meta is in litigation with Sarah Wynn-Williams (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/15/big-tech-whist…

Tech whistleblowers face million-dollar debts, job loss and isolation
After exposing the harms of Big Tech, many whistleblowers say they faced poor job prospects and isolation in Silicon Valley. They have no regrets.