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EFF, along with the ACLU and the ACLU of Mississippi, filed an amicus brief on Thursday asking a federal appellate court to continue to block Mississippi’s HB 1126—a bill that imposes age verification mandates on social media services across the internet. Our friend-of-the-court brief, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, argues that HB 1126 is “an extraordinary censorship law that violates all internet users’ First …

Angela Milne, Theodora Benson, and reading deeply – welcome to episode 131 of Tea or Books?! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/tea-or-books-131.mp3 In the first half of the episode, we discuss a topic suggestion by Heidi – do we read deeply or shallowly? Do we like critical editions? Or do we just ‘switch off’ and enjoy? In the second half, we pit two British Library Women Writers titles against each other – Which Way? by …

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Happy October!For some reason this month has a plethora of daily blogging or other creativity prompts. Here’s a list of the ones I found so far:* #Blogtober (consider this post my first for this, retroactively day 1)* Inktober — https://inktober.com/* LOLtober - https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/10/loltober-2024* Looptober — https://looptober.com/* Mathober - https://mathober.com/* Viztober — https://www.instagram.com/evalottchen/p/DAiNm3ZtuTj/Having found so many for the month I created an “October” page on the #IndieWeb wiki to document them …

I enjoyed Martin Gayford's new book Venice: City of Pictures. Reading it felt like returning to a well-loved painting and finding new, interesting details. For example, he cites a book about Tiepolo I've not read, written by Svetlana Alpers and Michael Baxendall, which describes the ceiling of the Gesuati, painted in 1738. The surrounding roofscape reflects and absorbs light and 'Alpers and Baxendall seem to have spent days observing the …

Today's striking apple, somewhere between medium and large, has a blush that ranges from deep to streaky over yellow. ¶ title="Legace"> Classically shaped and lightly ribbed, Legace wears many small light lenticel dots in its scarlet coat. ¶ I'm not sure why, but the color of this apple in my photo is less vibrant and saturated than in person. That might be due to lighting or perhaps the existence of …

If my birthday present was Dublin, the birthday meal was Cuubo. The early dinner before the early bed time before the early flight. Only one of those things went to plan, and without going into specifics, Sophie pinpoints the exact moment she knew it wasn’t going to be a 9pm bedtime to the picture she received at 2pm of one man and two martinis, which was my lunch and not …

I gave up growing carrots for a few years. I was failing at them; I got discouraged and quit. I first got back in the game because I was wearing the title “Master Gardener” and felt ashamed to do so while being incapable of something so fundamental. And then the way I started growing carrots again […] The post Growing carrots in Southern California appeared first on Greg Alder's Yard …

Keith Gugliotto: The Mac App Store places a receipt file in each purchased application. The receipt includes a certificate the application uses to validate that receipt to be sure you’ve made a bona fide purchase. That certificate is only valid for a limited amount of time – in our experience, up to about 25 months, though sometimes significantly less, which could indicate the App Store renews these certificates every so …

News Before Billy Crystal Is Far From Laughing in Creepy Before Trailer This is a very different sort of role for the City Slickers actor By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on October 4, 2024 Credit: Apple TV+ Comment 0 Share New Share Before Trailer&url=https://reactormag.com/billy-crystal-is-far-from-laughing-in-creepy-before-trailer/” target=”_blank” title=”Twitter”> Before Trailer” target=”_blank” title=”Pinterest”> Credit: Apple TV+ A new Apple TV+ series starring Billy Crystal is far from funny. If the trailer for it …

What are you up to this weekend? We are picking apples and visiting friends on the North Fork. It’s gorgeous and cider-y out here! Also, I’m excited to chat with Marian Schembari about her wonderful memoir on being diagnosed with autism at age 34.… Read more The post Have a Great Weekend. appeared first on Cup of Jo.

Since the 1990s, Ishtiyaque Haji has set out a number of concerns for morality that derive from causal determinism’s threat to our ability to do otherwise. In Obligation and Responsibility, he develops these concerns in innovative and interesting ways. Some of these are advances on his previous arguments, but the new book also features several new and challenging avenues of inquiry. In Chapter 1, Haji sets up the plan of …

Lewisham Police are urgently appealing for assistance in locating a teenage girl who has gone missing. Earth, 13, was last seen on September 28, and her family and authorities are increasingly concerned for her wellbeing. She is described as 5’3″ with a slim build and black hair styled in buns. Earth is described as having a slim build and black hair styled in buns. Pic: Lewisham Police She was last …