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Hi hi hi!! Remember how we’re in the middle of the middle of the Torah now—Leviticus 19? The Holiness Code. The heart of the Torah. Literally getting to the core stuff, if you will. Aaand what’s one of the key messages Torah wants to make sure that we hear?

A Deeper Look At The Surgeon General’s Report On Kids & Social Media: It’s Not What You Heard by Mike Masnick

We had just recently written about the American Psychological Association’s very thorough and detailed report going through much of the research about the impact of social media on the mental health of kids. That report was careful, and nuanced, and basically said that there is little evidence that social media is inherently bad for kids. […]

A landmark Chicago court ruling threatens a century of expert ballistics testimony

They were taught that public schools are evil. Then a Virginia couple defied their families and enrolled their kids.

Maybe, no one?

I usually write a blog post on 20 June each year to celebrate the birthday of this blog. But today I want to celebrate #WP20 with you, the 20th birthday of our beloved open source software. No longer a teenager At 20 years old, WordPress is a grown up piece of software. It started quite small, weigh...

Succession, the popular HBO soap opera about a family of hideous media moguls, will come to a close this weekend. It’s a supremely glossy and expensively-made TV show about supremely glossy and expensively-made TV. The in-your-face self-referentiality distinguishes Succession from shows like The Sopranos and The Wire, earlier “prestige” classics that likewise reflected—and shaped—the zeitgeist. […]

GOP women freak out over losing reproductive rights, but embrace cruelty when it's someone else's rights at stake

Conservatives are making Pride merch 'toxic.' Their real goal is much worse. by Dean Obeidallah

Target announced earlier this week that the company was removing some LGBTQ-themed items from shelves and moving displays intended to honor Pride month to the back of the store in response to a public backlash from the right. But what happened at Target goes far beyond just some people calling for a boycott.

Never Trump. Never Sedition.

Mike Lindell dared anyone to disprove his claim that the 2020 election was stolen. For this software forensics expert, it was almost too easy.

Ron DeSantis claimed his campaign launch was a success, but Elon Musk was left furious as his own app crashed repeatedly, Platformer reported.