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**Why the Supreme Court Might Grant Trump More Power. WSJ**
WSJ explains the “unitary executive theory” and why the Supreme Court may allow Trump to expand the reach and scope of executive power.
#Video length: seven minutes and one second.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebdz4DIdiPM
#WSJ #Trump #SCOTUS #Law #Constitution #Politics #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates #America
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Many people seem to have completely lost the ability to tell what is real and what is fake online, or simply do not care anymore. Read more at @404media. #AI #AIslop #SocialMedia #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/hHIBoK
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Harvard offers free tuition to families earning less than $200,000
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2d5jllx60o?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into U.S. and Canada @u-s-and-canada-BBCNews
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🔴 👞 **Trendy, Pointy Shoes From the Middle Ages Confirm the Old Adage That Beauty—or at Least Fashion—Is Pain**
🔗 https://mymodernmet.com/poulaine-medieval-pointy-shoe/
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons #Culture #Fashion @histodon @histodons @medievodons
🔴 📖 **Antiquity - Including the “East” As “Western Identity”**
_“In this book, the reader will access debates on intercultural experiences from the perspective of Phoenician colonists in Spain; the formation of a particular Greek identity built by Greek colonists in Sicily; the dramatic social and cultural transformations in the southern Levant following the regional transition to the Bronze Age; the integration of pre-Islamic Somalia in a trade network connected to the Mediterranean, from the Bronze to Iron ages; the multicultural influences inspiring the Book of Genesis; the cultural identity of early Christians as the New Testament is developed under the influence of Near Eastern traditions; and the complex multi-cultural and multi-ethnic dialogue behind the process of formation of Koine Greek during Byzantine times.”
Antiquity - including the “East” as “Western identity” [Working title] (2023) IntechOpen eBooks. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.104678.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Academic #Ebook #Bookstodon #History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Linguistics #Antiquity #Culture #Identity @histodon @histodons @archaeodons @linguistics @bookstodon
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The words 'wheel', 'cycle', and 'chakra' are all distantly related.
Via Germanic, Ancient Greek and Sanskrit, they can be traced back to Proto-Indo-European, the reconstructed common ancestor of these languages.
Sound changes made these words grow apart.
These words are also related to bicycle and 'Ku Klux (Klan)'.
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Big Tech wants AI fair use… for them
OpenAI and Google are pushing the US to let them train AI on copyrighted material—framing it as a national security issue. Meanwhile, lawsuits mount. Who benefits from redefining 'fair use'? #AI #Copyright #FairUse
https://www.theverge.com/news/630079/openai-google-copyright-fair-use-exception
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Beyond “Dickensian”: 7 Quirky Words Created by Charles Dickens
https://wordsmarts.com/dickensian-words/
Charles Dickens at PG
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OpenAI Says It’s "Over" If It Can’t Steal All Your Copyrighted Work
https://futurism.com/openai-over-copyrighted-work?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Donald Trump: From Diabolical to Dumbfounding @donald-trump-from-diabolical-to-dumbfounding-Futurism
🔴 **Unearthed notebooks shed light on Victorian genius who inspired Einstein**
_“Michael Faraday’s illustrated notes that show how radical scientist began his theories at London’s Royal Institution to go online”_
#Science #News #Physics #Chemistry #Einstein #RoyalInstitution #Online @science @physics @chemistry
🔴 **Gutenberg's Printing Press And MBA Students**
🔗 https://www.biblonia.com/p/the-worlds-first-business-case-study
#History #Books #Bookstodon #Publishing #Business #MBA @bookstodon
🔴 🇮🇶 **‘Spreadsheets of empire’: red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists after Iraq finds**
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/15/stone-tablets-mesopotamia-iraq-red-tape-bureaucracy
#News #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Iraq #MiddleEast #Asia #BritishMuseum #Museum #Cuneiform #Bureaucracy #Empire #Ancient #Mesopotamia #GirsuProject @archaeodons
🔴 🌊 🌡️ **OBSERVER: Copernicus Climate Change Service tracks record atmospheric moisture and sea surface temperatures in 2024**
#GlobalWarming #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment @climatechange
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Researchers astonished by tool’s apparent success at revealing AI’s hidden motives
Anthropic trains AI to hide motives, but different "personas" betray their secrets.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/researchers-astonished-by-tools-apparent-success-at-revealing-ais-hidden-motives/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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10 Medieval Phrases We Still Use Today https://www.medievalists.net/2024/12/medieval-phrases-today/ #MiddleAges
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#smugglers charge $550 to move #migrants away from Trump’s America, chart @economics https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-11/smugglers-are-charging-550-to-move-migrants-away-from-the-us
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🔴 🥚 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 **Sourcing European Eggs For The US**
Representatives of the U.S. Department of Agriculture have asked a number of European nations if they can supply eggs to the North American nation, reports Reuters. The request was made whilst egg prices in the US soar due to an outbreak of avian flu in laying hens.
#News #Agriculture #Eggs #Inflation #Trade #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #EuropeanUnion #EU #Europe
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