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DHS advised immigrant children to self-deport until a California judge stepped in
WASHINGTON — Last September, the Department of Homeland Security started advising unaccompanied immigrant children that they could either self-deport or expect to face long-term detention. But a federal judge in Los Angeles on Mondayordered the government to stop using such “blatantly coercive” language, ruling that the new advisals, as they are known, violated a 40-year-old court order…
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Trump official roasted for sharing ‘historically inaccurate’ AI image of civil rights icon
Education Secretary Linda McMahon baffled historians on Friday after highlighting civil rights icon Ida B. Wells in a social media post using an image generated with generative artificial intelligence, an image experts decried as “historically inaccurate,” The Washington Post reported Saturday. “The use of AI to pull together infographics about individuals has resulted in poor…
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MacBook Neo vs. MacBook Air: Which One Should You Buy?
Five hundred bucks. That’s the price difference between the MacBook Neo and the MacBook Air. Having spent a lot of time testing and using both laptops in the MacBook lineup, I can say that there’s a clear demographic for both of these devices. As a longtime laptop tester, my goal here is twofold. I want…
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AI Is Causing Healthcare Costs to Surge
Since the onset of the AI chatbot boom, tech companies, insurance industry mouthpieces, and healthcare administrators have spun a yarn that introducing AI to healthcare is a surefire way to lower costs for patients. Mario Schlosser, co-founder and chief technical officer of the medical insurer Oscar Health, has stated that AI was the “only way”…
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As Trump rains down terror on Iran, Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer-winning ‘English’ has its L.A. premiere
War has a way of curtailing imagination. When the news breaks of faraway civilian casualties — an erroneous air strike on a school that relied on outdated intelligence, for example — the mind takes refuge in abstractions and statistics. Grief isn’t an infinite resource. There’s only so much distant suffering anyone can take in. Yet…
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Iran Could Be America’s Next Vietnam
The prediction that Iran will be America’s next Vietnam—a moral catastrophe, an abyss into which money and lives have been pitched, with the sole effect of weakening the United States and heartening its enemies—is already in general circulation among Americans. A few days ago, the Iranian embassy in Hanoi joined the doomsaying. Its X account…
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Why the 38 million Americans who live alone need a ‘buddy system’
About a year ago my friend John died, alone in his house. John was a 62-year-old divorced doctor. At a spring party the day before his death, he mentioned to some friends that he hadn’t been feeling quite right — some dizziness, some forgetfulness. One friend asked if he had seen a doctor, and his…
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Lead still haunts yards in Exide battery recycler cleanup zone
Homes near a former battery recycler in Southeast Los Angeles County still have excessive lead in their soil, even after the state spent hundreds of millions of dollars over a decade to remove it, according to a new study. The former Exide Technologies plant in Vernon melted down pallets of lead-acid car batteries in blast…
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How fan fiction went mainstream
Archive of Our Own, or AO3, is one of the most popular websites in the world, with over 10 million registered users. Its users spend their time both reading and writing many, many words about their favorite fictional characters. It’s a place that allows normie readers to try out their characters in different scenarios and…
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The Big Unanswered Question about the Tracking of ICE Observers
The first night after agents told her they were coming to her house, Elinor Hilton didn’t go home. The next night she returned—she couldn’t stay away forever—but she didn’t sleep. “I was having scary dreams,” she told me weeks later. And things weren’t much better in the morning. “I wasn’t parking my car where I…