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Submission Summary: 0 pending, 127 declined, 59 accepted (186 total, 31.72% accepted)

Submission + - Vinay Prasad ask YouTube to scrub his Anti-Vax kookery from the record. (substack.com)

sandbagger writes: Democracy runs on receipts. For years, Vinay Prasad made a career out of trashing COVID vaccines, boosters, mandates, and anyone who dared suggest collective responsibility. Now that he's America's man in charge of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. And suddenly, he wants a clean slate. The contrarian who never met a camera he did not love is now sprinting across the internet with a fire extinguisher, trying to douse the flames of his own quotes.

Submission + - Canada: Let's allow the US to spy on all our citizens and backdoor everything (eff.org)

sandbagger writes: The Canadian government is preparing to give away Canadians’ digital lives—to U.S. police, to the Donald Trump administration, and possibly to foreign spy agencies.

Bill C-2, the so-called Strong Borders Act, is a sprawling surveillance bill with multiple privacy-invasive provisions. But the thrust is clear: it’s a roadmap to aligning Canadian surveillance with U.S. demands.

Submission + - Ian Fleming predictions from 1955. (wikipedia.org)

sandbagger writes: The third James Bond novel was published this day in 1955. The thriller Moonraker is from a long-ago era with a villain that makes no sense today — A rocket-building technocrat who is actually a secret Nazi working for the Russians.

Submission + - New organ discovered in the human body says paper. (thelancet.com) 1

sandbagger writes: Researchers have officially classified the mesentery—a structure in the digestive system—as a distinct human organ.

Previously thought to be a fragmented and insignificant part of the abdominal cavity, new research reveals that the mesentery is actually a continuous structure that plays a crucial role in holding the intestines in place. It is called the mesentery.

Submission + - Adobe Exec: Early Termination Fees Are 'Like Heroin' (theverge.com)

sandbagger writes: Early termination fees are “a bit like heroin for Adobe,” according to an Adobe executive quoted in the FTC’s newly unredacted complaint against the company for allegedly hiding fees and making it too hard to cancel Creative Cloud. “There is absolutely no way to kill off ETF or talk about it more obviously” in the order flow without “taking a big business hit,” this executive said.

Submission + - Ford first designed an electric car for consumers in ... 1967! (designyoutrust.com)

sandbagger writes: The Ford Comuta, an experimental electric vehicle designed in 1967 at the Ford Dunton Technical Centre, was primarily targeted at the British market. Despite Ford President Arjay Miller’s prediction that cars like the Comuta could be available within five to ten years, the next electric Ford, the 1998 Ranger EV, arrived much later. Only two Comutas were made, with one now housed at the Science Museum in London.

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