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Kentucky Democrat Defeats Anti-Abortion Challenger in Governor's Race
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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) has won re-election against challenger Attorney General Daniel Cameron (R), per NBC News, in a race where abortion was surprisingly prominent. This victory won’t restore abortion rights in the state, but it’s a win not to have someone who is so vehemently opposed to abortion in the… Read more...
House GOP moves to reduce Buttigieg's salary to $1
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Cecilia Aldarondo Relived Her High School Traumas on Film So You Don't Have To
The premise is like something out of a romcom: In order to exorcize her high school demons, a Gen X/millennial cusp filmmaker sets out to recreate certain traumatic moments, at times filming at her actual alma mater. That roughly describes You Were My First Boyfriend, the latest from Cecilia Aldarondo (whose previous… Read more...
Over 500 Survivors of Forced Sterilization Applied for Reparations. Fewer Than a Quarter Have Been Accepted.
On January 1, 2022, California opened up an application for survivors of forced sterilization to apply for reparations from a $4.5 million fund established by a law passed in 2021. The law distinguished itself from similar laws in other states by extending beyond those who had been sterilized under 20th-century… Read more...
Why the U.S. isn’t stopping this war, and other Middle East realities
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The U.S. has many reasons for not pushing Israel to accept a cease-fire, including a common desire to destroy Hamas.
Bright Colors Might Not Cure You, But the Pseudoscience Is Enough to Inspire a Vivid New Art Show
Everything I’m looking at inside the Jack Hanley Gallery in TriBeCa is pink. In front of me hangs a pink painting, which is beside another painting that is a slightly deeper shade of pink. Each piece of artwork at Sophie Treppendahl’s latest show “Chromotherapy” is awash with a pinkish-magenta hue. The walls in the… Read more...
The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop
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Kim Salazar, Tim Neusesser, and Nishi Chitale (via Hacker News): Many modern websites are designed with a mobile-first approach. When these pages render on desktop devices, the content can appear overly large and stretched out. Screen-covering images, large bloated text, and excessive negative space result in long pages requiring more scrolling to consume all content. […]
iLeakage: Browser-Based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices
Jason Kim et al. (Hacker News): We present iLeakage, a transient execution side channel targeting the Safari web browser present on Macs, iPads and iPhones. iLeakage shows that the Spectre attack is still relevant and exploitable, even after nearly 6 years of effort to mitigate it since its discovery. We show how an attacker can […]