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• Laurene Powell Jobs:Beware Philanthropists Who Want Control in Return for Giving

  by Geekette on 10/17/2025, 9:33 PM with 0 comments

• Texas bans people/entities from China, Iran, Russia, Korea from buying property

  by Geekette on 10/17/2025, 8:07 PM with 2 comments

• Culinary epitaphs: Recipe on Gravestone Helps to Remember the Dearly Departed

  by Geekette on 10/15/2025, 9:46 AM with 0 comments

• US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official info

  by Geekette on 10/14/2025, 10:52 AM with 6 comments

• Malala Yousafzai on growing up, getting cynical

  by Geekette on 10/11/2025, 11:57 AM with 0 comments

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• How Thomas Peterffy automated trading, made Interactive Brokers a $100B business

  by Geekette on 10/4/2025, 7:25 PM with 1 comments

• 13-year-old boy survives 90 minute flight stowed away in airplane's landing gear

  by Geekette on 10/2/2025, 5:49 PM with 0 comments

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• Move into Maui tiny home village, two years after fires

  by Geekette on 9/30/2025, 7:52 PM with 0 comments

• Startup Founder Charlie Javice Sentenced to over 7 Years for Defrauding JPMorgan

  by Geekette on 9/29/2025, 9:04 PM with 1 comments

• The airliner pilot who gets to fly World War Two's biggest bomber

  by Geekette on 9/19/2025, 11:52 PM with 0 comments

• ChatPerson, our new RI (real intelligence) service

  by Geekette on 9/15/2025, 8:31 PM with 1 comments

• China is ditching the dollar, fast: Officials believe the yuan has come of age

  by Geekette on 9/14/2025, 1:18 AM with 71 comments

• Several people fired after clampdown on speech over Charlie Kirk shooting

  by Geekette on 9/13/2025, 4:30 PM with 482 comments

• U.S. Wildfire Fighters to Mask Up After Decades-Long Ban on Smoke Protections

  by Geekette on 9/10/2025, 6:51 PM with 1 comments

• African authorities dismantle cybercrime and fraud networks, recover ~100M

  by Geekette on 8/24/2025, 1:29 AM with 1 comments

• Protests as Greenlandic woman's newborn taken after 'parenting competence' tests

  by Geekette on 8/23/2025, 6:29 PM with 4 comments

• Think Doing Business in India Is Hard? Try Getting a Drink After Work

  by Geekette on 8/22/2025, 6:18 PM with 5 comments

• African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks Africa's size

  by Geekette on 8/16/2025, 11:35 AM with 19 comments

• Spain put up wealth taxes – without chasing away the billionaires

  by Geekette on 8/16/2025, 11:07 AM with 1 comments

• The Perfect Algorithm for Finding Love? Trevor Noah Interviews Christian Rudder [video]

  by Geekette on 8/14/2025, 7:03 PM with 0 comments

• Rise of ARFID, childhood disorder that shuts off the basic human instinct to eat

  by Geekette on 8/2/2025, 11:11 AM with 1 comments

• A chemist/computer scientist brought self-driving laboratories to Toronto

  by Geekette on 7/24/2025, 8:29 AM with 0 comments

• Dr. Ozempic: Inside the medical discovery that revolutionized weight loss

  by Geekette on 7/24/2025, 8:28 AM with 0 comments

• The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations

  by Geekette on 7/22/2025, 10:41 AM with 0 comments

• The Bleach Community Is Ready for RFK Jr. To Make Their Dreams Come True

  by Geekette on 7/2/2025, 7:04 PM with 26 comments

• The Mysterious Billionaire Behind the OnlyFans Porn Empire

  by Geekette on 6/30/2025, 12:47 AM with 4 comments

• First US college declines federal science grants due to new DEI requirements

  by Geekette on 6/16/2025, 8:17 PM with 1 comments

• Copenhagen is adapting to a warmer world with rain tunnels and 'sponge parks'

  by Geekette on 6/15/2025, 9:20 PM with 1 comments

• How a Hazelnut Spread Became a Sticking Point in Franco-Algerian Relations

  by Geekette on 6/10/2025, 8:03 PM with 0 comments

• Busting the Myth That the Canadian Federal Govt Has Hurt Alberta's Oil Industry

  by Geekette on 6/5/2025, 7:09 PM with 4 comments

• I Bought a Tesla and the Previous Owner Has Been Remotely Controlling My Car

  by Geekette on 6/4/2025, 10:26 PM with 7 comments

• Japanese scientists develop artificial blood compatible with all blood types

  by Geekette on 6/2/2025, 9:44 PM with 64 comments

• 'The Internet Sucks.' Cory Doctorow Tells How to Fix It

  by Geekette on 6/1/2025, 6:24 PM with 1 comments

• A Library in New Zealand Replaces Dewey with System Rooted in Māori Tradition

  by Geekette on 5/29/2025, 9:40 AM with 35 comments

• How A Canadian Ostrich Farm Sparked a Far-Right Crusade

  by Geekette on 5/24/2025, 11:24 AM with 0 comments

• 'Garage Mahals' Are Driving Neighbors Nuts

  by Geekette on 5/18/2025, 7:33 AM with 1 comments

• How to buy a chicken sandwich in Shenzhen: China's $100B livestream sales sector

  by Geekette on 5/13/2025, 8:19 PM with 1 comments

• The Indian company forcing Uber to change its business model

  by Geekette on 5/13/2025, 9:52 AM with 0 comments

• Why weight-loss drug users are telling no one – not even their partners

  by Geekette on 5/11/2025, 8:00 AM with 2 comments

• How Far Would You Go to Make a Friend? Startups Selling Treatment for Loneliness

  by Geekette on 5/4/2025, 5:53 PM with 0 comments

• Broken Justice: how Europe let its courts decay

  by Geekette on 5/3/2025, 11:24 AM with 1 comments

• Flies in the evidence room: Inside Belgium's rotting Justice Palace

  by Geekette on 5/3/2025, 11:16 AM with 5 comments

• Vietnam's Village of Moroccan Defectors

  by Geekette on 4/30/2025, 11:31 PM with 0 comments

• The Agonizing Task of Turning Europe's Power Back On

  by Geekette on 4/29/2025, 2:49 AM with 1 comments

• Law students organize to give Trump-caving firms a recruitment problem

  by Geekette on 4/25/2025, 8:54 PM with 1 comments

• Ping, You've Got Whale: AI detection system alerts ships of whales in their path

  by Geekette on 4/22/2025, 6:28 PM with 86 comments

• Cocoa prices are rising so new chocolate firms are using alternative ingredients

  by Geekette on 4/13/2025, 6:16 PM with 0 comments

• There's No Reason We Can't Be Friends Before You Are Liquefied

  by Geekette on 4/1/2025, 7:21 PM with 0 comments

• Kermit the Frog tapped as University of Maryland commencement speaker

  by Geekette on 3/29/2025, 5:07 PM with 0 comments

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• In some parts of the US, the clack of typewriter keys can still be heard

  by Geekette on 3/22/2025, 10:25 PM with 0 comments

• The Tech CEOs Who Want a Doge for Canada

  by Geekette on 3/12/2025, 4:50 PM with 1 comments

• Ponzi and pyramid schemes dressed in startup clothes rampant in the UAE

  by Geekette on 3/11/2025, 6:14 PM with 1 comments

• Safe Place for Science: French University Ready to Welcome American Scientists

  by Geekette on 3/6/2025, 9:44 PM with 7 comments

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• An Effective Treatment for Opioid Addiction Exists. Why Isn't It Used More?

  by Geekette on 2/17/2025, 11:08 PM with 1 comments

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• State policies shaped by white supremacy increase mortality rates

  by Geekette on 2/6/2025, 11:55 AM with 0 comments

• US Postal Service Suspends Incoming Parcels from China and Hong Kong

  by Geekette on 2/5/2025, 9:30 AM with 0 comments

• 'Cancel culture' insurance offers respite to panicking celebrities

  by Geekette on 1/24/2025, 10:01 PM with 1 comments

• Impeached South Korean president arrested after hours-long standoff at residence

  by Geekette on 1/15/2025, 1:55 PM with 0 comments

• Yemeni Coffee Shops in Texas

  by Geekette on 1/3/2025, 11:11 AM with 200 comments

• Should more of us be moving to live near friends?

  by Geekette on 12/26/2024, 9:23 AM with 487 comments

• MacKenzie Scott donates over $2B in 2024 to 199 organizations

  by Geekette on 12/22/2024, 8:47 AM with 91 comments

• Ohio passes law letting police charge public up to $75/hour for body cam videos

  by Geekette on 12/21/2024, 2:56 PM with 2 comments

• Fukushima to identify improperly sorted trash and publicly identify offenders

  by Geekette on 12/19/2024, 7:02 PM with 1 comments

• The Passengers a Norwegian Cruise Ship Left Behind

  by Geekette on 12/19/2024, 9:53 AM with 0 comments

• Khalid Sheldrake: The East Dulwich man who would be King

  by Geekette on 12/18/2024, 11:25 AM with 31 comments

• South Korea's parliament votes to impeach President over his martial law order

  by Geekette on 12/14/2024, 7:16 PM with 23 comments

• Family of alleged killer Luigi Mangione has extensive involvement in healthcare

  by Geekette on 12/10/2024, 9:15 PM with 1 comments

• Investigation: Visas have become an Indian foreign interference tool

  by Geekette on 12/10/2024, 5:12 PM with 0 comments

• Belgium found guilty of crimes against humanity in colonial Congo

  by Geekette on 12/7/2024, 1:45 PM with 1 comments

• France in political crisis after no-confidence vote topples government

  by Geekette on 12/4/2024, 10:28 PM with 0 comments

• Dutch suburb where residents must grow food on at least half of their property

  by Geekette on 11/28/2024, 9:53 PM with 0 comments

• Interpol arrests 5,500 across 5 continents for cybercrime, seizes over $400M

  by Geekette on 11/28/2024, 6:41 PM with 2 comments

• Prince Nico Mbarga’s biggest hit outsold any of The Beatles’ (2017)

  by Geekette on 11/22/2024, 10:58 AM with 62 comments

• Cop29 CEO filmed agreeing to facilitate fossil fuel deals at climate summit

  by Geekette on 11/10/2024, 1:04 PM with 0 comments

• Secrets of a ransomware negotiator

  by Geekette on 11/6/2024, 8:57 PM with 1 comments

• 'Children are suffering' as Calgary's 60 year fluoride debate drags on

  by Geekette on 11/3/2024, 11:24 AM with 1 comments

• I Made a Wholesome OnlyFans to Try to Make Ends Meet

  by Geekette on 11/1/2024, 6:13 PM with 0 comments

• The Untold Story of Trump's Failed Attempt to Overthrow Venezuela's President

  by Geekette on 11/1/2024, 5:45 PM with 1 comments

• The FTC's ban on fake online reviews is now in effect

  by Geekette on 10/30/2024, 6:36 PM with 1 comments

• LA Times, MSNBC, WaPo staff fear execs made editorial decisions to appease Trump

  by Geekette on 10/26/2024, 4:17 AM with 3 comments

• Owner of the Los Angeles Times Blocked the Paper from Endorsing Kamala Harris

  by Geekette on 10/26/2024, 3:50 AM with 3 comments

• The Online-Betting Boom Is Ruining Sports–and Lives

  by Geekette on 10/25/2024, 6:48 PM with 0 comments

• Tiny Town in Ontario, Canada Selling Properties for $10 a Pop

  by Geekette on 10/25/2024, 6:40 PM with 20 comments

• My Ozempic Nightmare: I became sicker than ever instead of shedding pounds

  by Geekette on 10/25/2024, 6:40 PM with 3 comments

• US Tariffs on China Hurt Local Job Market Growth, Economy

  by Geekette on 10/25/2024, 6:02 PM with 0 comments

• Hindu nationalists use WhatsApp to organize forced Christian conversions

  by Geekette on 10/24/2024, 10:47 AM with 2 comments

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• Instagram helps Brazilians dodge a national sales ban on vapes

  by Geekette on 10/11/2024, 6:43 PM with 0 comments

• The Law School Dean Who Worked to Overturn the Election

  by Geekette on 10/11/2024, 3:25 PM with 1 comments

• Japan's Kojima, with its proud Jeans St, draws fans of vintage, deep-blue denim

  by Geekette on 10/6/2024, 7:08 PM with 13 comments

• Actors are suing an AI company for cloning their voices without permission

  by Geekette on 9/23/2024, 3:29 PM with 0 comments

• InstaDeep became Africa's biggest AI startup success,acquired by BioNTech

  by Geekette on 9/22/2024, 5:21 PM with 0 comments

• 'Our plan worked': How Vienna prepared itself for a 5k-year flood

  by Geekette on 9/20/2024, 9:07 PM with 0 comments

• Univ. of North Texas' body parts business: Cutting up and leasing out the poor

  by Geekette on 9/18/2024, 2:50 PM with 14 comments

• The wild,winding world of New York City's legal (& not-so-legal) cannabis market

  by Geekette on 9/13/2024, 9:06 AM with 14 comments

• A Uruguayan company teaches people how to turn regular cars into EVs

  by Geekette on 9/11/2024, 4:15 PM with 166 comments

• Uber drivers in Kenya are ignoring the app and charging their own rates

  by Geekette on 9/11/2024, 3:30 PM with 104 comments

• Malaysian car brands bank on cheaper models to compete with Tesla and BYD

  by Geekette on 9/11/2024, 3:28 PM with 0 comments

• 'Most People I Know Who Went Vegan Have Gone Back to Eating Meat'

  by Geekette on 9/3/2024, 6:57 PM with 47 comments

• Washington Post CEO accused of tricking police in UK tabloid scandal

  by Geekette on 7/30/2024, 7:29 PM with 0 comments

• Paris Olympics a century on: history of the Games told through infographics

  by Geekette on 7/25/2024, 10:46 PM with 0 comments

• "Digital parents" give millions in China a vision of family love they never had

  by Geekette on 6/30/2024, 11:57 AM with 0 comments

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• Ozempic 2024 Review – An Oral History of the Weight Loss Phenomenon

  by Geekette on 5/13/2024, 4:49 PM with 0 comments

• US conservative federal judges plan to blackball Columbia University graduates

  by Geekette on 5/9/2024, 2:24 PM with 2 comments

• Some Sage Insight for Students and Parents Deciding on Colleges

  by Geekette on 4/29/2024, 9:47 PM with 0 comments

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• The secret police killed his parents. Then one of them adopted him

  by Geekette on 4/12/2024, 2:57 PM with 0 comments

• The slavery heirs who went on an apology tour

  by Geekette on 4/11/2024, 10:55 AM with 1 comments

• The town that Ozempic and Wegovy built: Novo Nordisk's drug is changing Denmark

  by Geekette on 4/11/2024, 10:34 AM with 0 comments

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• The Unification Church Infiltrated Japan's Govt, Now Sets Sights on the US

  by Geekette on 4/8/2024, 11:13 PM with 9 comments

• Plight of detained US Binance staffer in Nigeria worsens after colleague escapes

  by Geekette on 4/6/2024, 9:32 PM with 6 comments

• Meta employees lost big on real estate investments touted by a colleague

  by Geekette on 4/6/2024, 1:46 AM with 2 comments

• SBF Goes to Prison: Why He Got 25 Years

  by Geekette on 3/29/2024, 2:07 AM with 2 comments

• DeSantis-backed New College board scraps 5 professors tenure

  by Geekette on 3/27/2024, 8:14 PM with 0 comments

• Shoppers sue Hermès, say selective sales of Birkin bags violates antitrust law

  by Geekette on 3/26/2024, 5:23 PM with 0 comments

• First rule of Extreme Dishwasher Loading club is "Think quality, not quantity"

  by Geekette on 3/23/2024, 11:38 PM with 3 comments

• Boeing whistleblower before death: "If anything happens, it's not suicide"

  by Geekette on 3/15/2024, 5:55 PM with 30 comments

• A Canadian tech millionaire built a tiny-home community for the unhoused

  by Geekette on 3/14/2024, 11:28 PM with 2 comments

• EU introduces digital passports for products' composition and production history

  by Geekette on 3/1/2024, 10:50 AM with 0 comments

• 46yr-old man claims to have a teen's body, wants to build nation of immortals

  by Geekette on 2/28/2024, 12:42 PM with 89 comments

• Canada's international student spike erroneously blamed on private colleges

  by Geekette on 2/27/2024, 6:39 PM with 0 comments

• Professor gifts $1B to Albert Einstein College of Medicine towards free tuition

  by Geekette on 2/27/2024, 10:22 AM with 1 comments

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• Against Disruption: On the Bulletpointization of Books

  by Geekette on 2/18/2024, 11:20 AM with 0 comments

• The great dollar store backlash: Does banning dollar stores work?

  by Geekette on 2/13/2024, 12:20 PM with 2 comments

• EU right-to-repair legislation leaves out most kitchen and bathroom appliances

  by Geekette on 2/13/2024, 11:36 AM with 0 comments

• A Belgian history of the Brussels sprout

  by Geekette on 2/13/2024, 11:04 AM with 1 comments

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• Multinational firm loses HK$200M after scammers stage deepfake video meeting

  by Geekette on 2/9/2024, 1:11 AM with 0 comments

• The Quebec Government's Plan to Kill English Universities

  by Geekette on 2/6/2024, 7:27 PM with 0 comments

• Body Language Pseudoscience Is Flourishing on YouTube

  by Geekette on 1/31/2024, 11:41 AM with 0 comments

• The Man in Room 117 [mental illness and personal autonomy on treatment]

  by Geekette on 1/28/2024, 12:05 PM with 1 comments

• Bank of America warns return-to-office laggards with 'letters of education'

  by Geekette on 1/25/2024, 6:26 PM with 1 comments

• Vienna's co-housing model offers a key to keeping families in the city

  by Geekette on 1/25/2024, 1:43 PM with 2 comments

• Beverly Hills Judge orders building moratorium over lack of affordable housing

  by Geekette on 1/25/2024, 12:49 AM with 0 comments

• 'America Is Under Attack': Inside the Anti-DEI Crusade

  by Geekette on 1/23/2024, 11:21 AM with 2 comments

• A sociologist in the tech kingdom of Silicon Valley

  by Geekette on 1/21/2024, 11:18 PM with 0 comments

• Neri Oxman reportedly plagiarized undergrad thesis of student she supervised

  by Geekette on 1/17/2024, 4:43 PM with 19 comments

• Kids of parents making $158.2-222.4k/yr have worst odds of Ivy League acceptance

  by Geekette on 1/14/2024, 9:23 PM with 51 comments

• Montreal Libraries Will Be Able to Kick Out People for Smelling Bad

  by Geekette on 1/7/2024, 6:12 PM with 1 comments

• New bill to bar wealthy colleges in the US from accepting federal student loans

  by Geekette on 12/22/2023, 12:29 PM with 79 comments

• Chinese court declares that AI-generated image has copyright

  by Geekette on 12/9/2023, 5:23 PM with 4 comments

• Latin America remembers Kissinger's 'profound moral wretchedness'

  by Geekette on 12/4/2023, 12:00 PM with 0 comments

• Would you pay $200 a month to make friends in L.A.? You'll need to get in line

  by Geekette on 12/2/2023, 7:35 PM with 2 comments

• Post-affirmative action, Asian American families are more stressed about college

  by Geekette on 12/2/2023, 7:20 PM with 0 comments

• Top PR firm Edelman uses 'trust barometer' to promote autocrats

  by Geekette on 11/26/2023, 10:53 AM with 2 comments

• Behold the Ozempic Effect on Business

  by Geekette on 11/20/2023, 10:31 AM with 0 comments

• Giorgio Armani fashions his own legacy with posthumous succession plan

  by Geekette on 11/15/2023, 7:07 PM with 0 comments

• Who Chooses the Color of the Year?

  by Geekette on 11/14/2023, 4:45 AM with 0 comments

• Pistachio billionaires accused of artwashing California's water crisis

  by Geekette on 11/13/2023, 12:10 PM with 56 comments

• Digital Florentine Codex: An Encyclopedia of 16th-Century Indigenous Mexico

  by Geekette on 11/13/2023, 11:25 AM with 0 comments

• What Is Erewhon? The History of the L.A. Cult Grocer

  by Geekette on 11/8/2023, 10:04 AM with 0 comments

• Clown Egg Register – archiving practice still used by clowning communities today

  by Geekette on 11/7/2023, 9:48 PM with 0 comments

• The Magical World of AI Prompters on Reddit

  by Geekette on 11/7/2023, 12:23 PM with 0 comments

• Buffy StMarie's Indigenous ancestry contradicted by family and CBC investigation

  by Geekette on 10/28/2023, 9:12 AM with 2 comments

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• Who moved my chips? Life in an AI entrepreneurs' houseshare

  by Geekette on 10/23/2023, 9:44 AM with 0 comments

• Sex guru, cosplayer, economist: will Javier Milei be Argentina's next president?

  by Geekette on 10/23/2023, 9:16 AM with 0 comments

• World Bank Helped Cover Up Sex Abuse at For-Profit School Chain

  by Geekette on 10/20/2023, 5:54 PM with 12 comments

• Who is the most important person in your company?

  by Geekette on 10/17/2023, 11:40 AM with 1 comments

• Canadian cannabis market struggles five years after legalisation

  by Geekette on 10/17/2023, 11:18 AM with 61 comments

• US and China are scrambling for influence in the tiny Solomon Islands

  by Geekette on 10/13/2023, 10:51 AM with 0 comments

• Bay Area high school grad rejected by 16 colleges hired by Google

  by Geekette on 10/12/2023, 10:13 AM with 0 comments

• Spousal Relative Income and Male Psychological Distress

  by Geekette on 10/9/2023, 6:10 PM with 3 comments

• From Scotland to Canada, a totem pole finally returns home

  by Geekette on 10/2/2023, 12:01 PM with 0 comments

• In a corner of Java live the Amish of Indonesia

  by Geekette on 9/29/2023, 10:05 AM with 1 comments

• The Baghdad job: who was behind history’s biggest bank heist?

  by Geekette on 9/28/2023, 1:26 PM with 1 comments

• The drug-dealers leading a public-health revolution

  by Geekette on 9/28/2023, 12:56 AM with 1 comments

• As old as banks themselves: A look through the history of bank runs

  by Geekette on 9/24/2023, 9:57 AM with 0 comments

• Afghanistan is open for tourism. What is it like to vacation under the Taliban?

  by Geekette on 9/20/2023, 10:09 AM with 0 comments

• Rolex earns billions every year. Where does the money go?

  by Geekette on 9/20/2023, 10:00 AM with 4 comments

• Erasing Existence of 1500 People:UK's Ongoing Colonial Crime in the Indian Ocean

  by Geekette on 9/18/2023, 7:09 AM with 2 comments

• Peru’s ‘Moche Route’: Mummies, pyramids, an adobe city and a stop in Trujillo

  by Geekette on 9/4/2023, 6:02 PM with 0 comments

• The racism scandals rocking Finland

  by Geekette on 9/4/2023, 5:48 PM with 0 comments

• Pope Francis Calls US Catholic Church 'Reactionary'

  by Geekette on 9/3/2023, 7:39 PM with 11 comments

• Studies find female surgeons' patients less likely to have adverse complications

  by Geekette on 9/1/2023, 9:57 AM with 4 comments

• Three Antiquities Traffickers and Their Fall from Grace

  by Geekette on 8/29/2023, 11:59 AM with 21 comments

• Parental Alienation: A Disputed Theory with Big Implications

  by Geekette on 8/29/2023, 11:53 AM with 0 comments

• Alberghi diffusi turn villages into hotels

  by Geekette on 8/24/2023, 12:31 PM with 2 comments

• Saudi Arabia has most profitable company in history and $3.2T to invest by 2030

  by Geekette on 8/23/2023, 4:53 PM with 1 comments

• She Wasn't Able to Get an Abortion. Now She's a Mom. Soon She'll Start 7th Grade

  by Geekette on 8/22/2023, 10:14 AM with 0 comments

• Hip hop historians who are racing to preserve its story

  by Geekette on 8/14/2023, 11:30 AM with 120 comments

• Why an unremarkable racist enjoyed the backing of billionaires

  by Geekette on 8/12/2023, 8:36 PM with 8 comments

• New Brunswick doctor ‘sounds alarm’ as unexplained neurological cases continue

  by Geekette on 7/23/2023, 5:10 PM with 0 comments

• American Annihilation: US families face a unique danger – murder from within

  by Geekette on 7/21/2023, 10:37 AM with 1 comments

• Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt

  by Geekette on 7/19/2023, 3:44 PM with 771 comments

• New Glut City: New York mega-office landlords are panicking, pivoting & shedding

  by Geekette on 7/17/2023, 5:58 PM with 0 comments

• Horatio Alger Assoc. gave US supreme justice access to unreported VIP treatment

  by Geekette on 7/10/2023, 10:47 AM with 2 comments

• George Soros’s foundation cuts 40% of staff 1 month after handover to his son

  by Geekette on 7/4/2023, 9:18 PM with 1 comments

• A civil rights group is challenging legacy admissions at Harvard University

  by Geekette on 7/4/2023, 10:33 AM with 56 comments

• US Judge Permanently Bans Digital Artist from Selling His ‘MetaBirkin’ NFTs

  by Geekette on 6/29/2023, 1:07 PM with 0 comments

• OceanGate Was Warned of Potential for Catastrophic Problems with Titanic Mission

  by Geekette on 6/23/2023, 1:18 PM with 1 comments

• How affirmative action works in practice

  by Geekette on 6/19/2023, 5:56 PM with 0 comments

• A Star Reporter’s Break with Reality

  by Geekette on 6/12/2023, 11:55 PM with 1 comments

• Roman Abramovich’s Quest for Portuguese Citizenship–An All-Access EU Pass

  by Geekette on 6/7/2023, 11:50 PM with 3 comments

• The Best and Worst Artists of Our Time are Sending Their Work into Space

  by Geekette on 5/28/2023, 6:44 PM with 0 comments

• The Supreme Court’s Warhol Decision Will Be Dangerous for Artists

  by Geekette on 5/28/2023, 12:40 PM with 0 comments

• Life inside the South African gangs risking everything for copper

  by Geekette on 5/17/2023, 8:27 AM with 1 comments

• Where oil rigs go to die (2017)

  by Geekette on 5/15/2023, 3:09 PM with 16 comments

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• Billionaire Harlan Crow bought property from Clarence Thomas in undisclosed deal

  by Geekette on 4/15/2023, 3:06 PM with 31 comments

• Nip (6th largest real-time payments system) powers Nigeria’s digital economy

  by Geekette on 3/26/2023, 8:35 PM with 0 comments

• Techstars unexpectedly pulls out of Sweden mid-programme

  by Geekette on 3/25/2023, 10:31 PM with 1 comments

• Why Is Starbucks at War with Its Unions?

  by Geekette on 3/11/2023, 5:28 PM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 8/10/2017, 1:59 PM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 7/24/2017, 11:44 AM with 0 comments

• Why avoiding women is the wrong response to sexual harassment scandals in tech

  by Geekette on 7/23/2017, 8:02 PM with 10 comments

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  by Geekette on 7/21/2017, 2:06 PM with 0 comments

• Amidst probe of alleged sexual misconduct, AngelList partner Lee Jacobs on leave

  by Geekette on 7/19/2017, 5:55 PM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 7/18/2017, 1:54 PM with 0 comments

• Women's stories reveal systemic sexual harassment in tech [video]

  by Geekette on 7/18/2017, 11:37 AM with 0 comments

• The World Bank’s Broken Promise to the Poor (2015)

  by Geekette on 7/17/2017, 1:37 PM with 80 comments

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  by Geekette on 7/15/2017, 6:10 PM with 0 comments

• Airbnb host must pay $5,000 for canceling reservation based on race

  by Geekette on 7/14/2017, 4:35 PM with 128 comments

• Oregon Just Put a Tax on Bicycles

  by Geekette on 7/10/2017, 12:29 PM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 7/7/2017, 1:58 PM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 7/7/2017, 1:40 PM with 1 comments

• 500 Startups partner Elizabeth Yin resigns over McClure situation

  by Geekette on 7/3/2017, 11:49 PM with 9 comments

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• How Vienna Solved Homelessness

  by Geekette on 7/1/2017, 12:51 PM with 2 comments

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  by Geekette on 6/30/2017, 1:49 PM with 60 comments

• 10% of all fish caught (~10M tons) is dumped back into the ocean annually

  by Geekette on 6/27/2017, 4:05 PM with 0 comments

• Why Are We Still Talking About “A Players”?

  by Geekette on 6/26/2017, 1:54 PM with 0 comments

• Recorded conversations show differently VCs assess male vs. female entrepreneurs

  by Geekette on 6/26/2017, 1:23 PM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 6/26/2017, 12:24 PM with 96 comments

• Employers making job applicants play sports as part of interview process

  by Geekette on 6/24/2017, 2:02 PM with 1 comments

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  by Geekette on 6/24/2017, 1:58 PM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 6/22/2017, 2:52 PM with 0 comments

• Pharma co. gets $455M/yr by overcharging for combining generic medications

  by Geekette on 6/21/2017, 12:46 AM with 0 comments

• Who Holds the DEA Accountable When Its Missions Cost Lives?

  by Geekette on 6/19/2017, 2:00 PM with 15 comments

• How a US drug operation caused a cartel's extermination of a Mexican border town

  by Geekette on 6/18/2017, 4:10 PM with 0 comments

• China’s economic rise makes it harder for expat bankers to work in Hong Kong

  by Geekette on 6/16/2017, 5:13 PM with 0 comments

• Futuristic Visions of Germany by Artists in 1930 [transportation and video calls]

  by Geekette on 6/12/2017, 1:20 PM with 0 comments

• Class calcification and myth of meritocracy is stronger in the US than the UK

  by Geekette on 6/11/2017, 10:08 PM with 0 comments

• There’s graft, and then there’s Odebrecht graft

  by Geekette on 6/11/2017, 2:52 PM with 7 comments

• What's the average equity sold by YC startups raising 500k-1M+ seed rounds?

  by Geekette on 6/6/2017, 5:54 PM with 0 comments

• The Holdup: A Mobster, a Family and the Crime That Won’t Let Them Go

  by Geekette on 6/4/2017, 2:05 PM with 0 comments

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• Kafka in Vegas

  by Geekette on 5/28/2017, 2:24 PM with 0 comments

• The Beleaguered Tenants of ‘Kushnerville’

  by Geekette on 5/25/2017, 12:53 PM with 0 comments

• Final Investor Update (frank note on shutting down by founder to investors)

  by Geekette on 5/5/2017, 1:06 PM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 5/3/2017, 10:18 PM with 0 comments

• A Digital Archive of Slave Voyages Details Largest Forced Migration in History

  by Geekette on 5/1/2017, 10:50 PM with 0 comments

• What if a restaurant gave away all its money?

  by Geekette on 5/1/2017, 8:07 PM with 0 comments

• Wall St trashes AA stock because it raised workers' salaries to market levels

  by Geekette on 4/30/2017, 4:12 PM with comments

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  by Geekette on 4/29/2017, 3:14 PM with 0 comments

• Lack of Lucrative Stock Options Causes Exits at Swedish Startup (Klarna)

  by Geekette on 4/11/2017, 10:44 PM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 4/11/2017, 11:11 AM with 0 comments

• Ben Horowitz: Culture and Revolution (using Haitian slave revolt as framework)

  by Geekette on 4/4/2017, 1:34 PM with 0 comments

• How Donald Trump crippled U.S. technology and science policy

  by Geekette on 4/4/2017, 1:20 PM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 3/27/2017, 3:19 PM with 1 comments

• Meet Daryle Lamont Jenkins, Insatiable Doxxer of Fascists and Nazis

  by Geekette on 3/26/2017, 10:45 PM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 3/25/2017, 4:33 PM with 1 comments

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  by Geekette on 3/23/2017, 6:23 PM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 3/19/2017, 1:05 PM with 0 comments

• NASA releases annual catalog of free software

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• by Geekette on 12/9/2016, 1:45 AM with comments

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  by Geekette on 10/23/2016, 10:30 PM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 10/22/2016, 4:07 PM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 6/15/2016, 2:01 PM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 5/31/2016, 12:46 PM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 5/19/2016, 5:15 PM with 0 comments

• Tim Cook to announce expansion of software center and new accelerator in India

  by Geekette on 5/17/2016, 9:49 PM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 5/15/2016, 10:15 PM with comments

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  by Geekette on 5/6/2016, 2:35 PM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 4/28/2016, 5:25 PM with 1 comments

• Venture Capital Disintermediation is Coming (fixing VC for LPs and founders)

  by Geekette on 4/26/2016, 11:04 AM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 4/25/2016, 9:45 AM with 0 comments

• Uber to pay ~$100M to settle lawsuits with drivers seeking employee status

  by Geekette on 4/22/2016, 4:01 PM with 0 comments

• How to take the bias out of job interviews

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• Theranos: How to destroy $9B in valuation in 6 Months

  by Geekette on 4/18/2016, 3:52 PM with 7 comments

• Goldman Sachs to pay less than touted $5.1B for role in subprime mortgage crisis

  by Geekette on 4/12/2016, 12:20 AM with 2 comments

• Sweden gets a national phone number: Call and get connected to a random resident

  by Geekette on 4/9/2016, 7:57 PM with 0 comments

• Bloomberg interviews Mossack & Fonseca, owners of firm hit by Panama Papers leak

  by Geekette on 4/5/2016, 7:40 PM with 0 comments

• Martin Luther King's Economic Dream: A Guaranteed Income for All Americans(2013)

  by Geekette on 4/4/2016, 1:44 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Do any companies still provide private office space for employees?

  by Geekette on 3/23/2016, 6:35 PM with 2 comments

• Facebook security exec:Why technical skills aren’t enough to be a great engineer

  by Geekette on 3/22/2016, 3:50 PM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 3/20/2016, 3:35 AM with comments

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  by Geekette on 2/19/2016, 4:10 AM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 2/13/2016, 12:41 AM with 0 comments

• Silicon Valley's Problem-Solving Bubble

  by Geekette on 2/4/2016, 3:58 AM with 0 comments

• Google Boots Ad Blockers from Google Play

  by Geekette on 2/3/2016, 9:08 PM with 0 comments

• Toronto's mayor demands an end to competition for fast, affordable broadband

  by Geekette on 1/13/2016, 3:48 AM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 11/14/2015, 2:18 AM with 1 comments

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  by Geekette on 11/9/2015, 12:51 AM with 0 comments

• The most popular paid iPhone app now is an ad blocker

  by Geekette on 9/18/2015, 4:47 PM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 8/14/2015, 8:43 PM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 8/12/2015, 8:15 PM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 3/30/2015, 2:34 PM with 1 comments

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• Bringing African Shoppers to the Global Mall

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• New documentary on Steve Jobs takes a more critical tone

  by Geekette on 3/21/2015, 7:56 PM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 9/27/2014, 10:38 PM with 1 comments

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• by Geekette on 8/15/2014, 3:07 PM with comments

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  by Geekette on 5/9/2014, 12:32 AM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 5/8/2014, 3:19 AM with 2 comments

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  by Geekette on 4/5/2014, 9:56 PM with 1 comments

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  by Geekette on 4/5/2014, 7:35 PM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 4/5/2014, 4:31 AM with 0 comments

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  by Geekette on 12/21/2013, 6:35 PM with comments

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  by Geekette on 10/6/2011, 7:19 PM with 0 comments